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ID12 - Circular Polarisation Beamline
Synopsis
Beamline ID12 is a unique instrument worldwide that offers users full control of the polarisation state of the X-ray beam over a wide energy range (2-15 keV) and is devoted to research at the ultimate limits of X-ray spectroscopy.
Status:
open
Disciplines
- Physics
- Chemistry
Applications
- Solid state physics
- Magnetism
- Spintronics
- Multiferroics
- Nanoparticles
- Thin films and multilayers
- Diluted magnetic semiconductors
- Molecular magnets
- Physics and chemistry of actinides
- Magnetization dynamics
- Optical activity
- Chirality
Techniques
- XAS - X-ray absorption spectroscopy
- XMCD - X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
- XMLD - X-ray magnetic linear dichroism
- XNCD - X-ray natural circular dichroism
- XNLD - X-ray natural linear dichroism
- XMchiD - X-ray magnetochiral dichroism
- XDMR - X-ray detected magnetic resonance
- XRR - X-ray reflectivity
Energy range
- 2.05 - 15.0 keV
Beam size
- Minimum (H x V) : 100.0 x 20.0 µm²
- Maximum (H x V) : 1.0 x 1.0 mm²
Sample environments
- Low temperature (down to 2.2K)
- Electromagnet with maximum field of 0.6 Tesla and 1Hz flipping frequency
- Superconducting split-coil magnet with 6 Tesla field
- High field superconducting solenoid of 17 Tesla
- EPR/XDMR spectrometer in the X-band
- Set-up for angular-dependent XAS measurements
- Possibility to apply high electric field (up to 1MV/cm)
Detectors
- Single- or multi-anode ion implanted Si P+NN+ photodiodes
- 35-element silicon drift detector