ID27 - High Pressure Beamline

Synopsis

Beamline ID27 is a premier X-ray powder and single crystal diffraction station (nanofocus) primarily dedicated to research at extreme pressures and temperatures. The beamline is currently being upgraded. The webpage will be updated in parallel. Please contact the scientist in charge for the current status.

Status: open

Disciplines

Physics
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Materials and Engineering
Chemistry
Environmental Sciences
Life Sciences

Applications

Earth and planetary sciences
Fundamental physics
Chemistry
Materials research
Biophysics/biochemistry
Life and biological function under extreme conditions.

Techniques

Powder diffraction
XRD - X-ray diffraction
XRF - X-ray fluorescence

Energy range

15.0 - 60.0 keV

Beam size

Minimum (H x V) : 300.0 x 250.0 nm²
Maximum (H x V) : 2.0 x 2.0 µm²

Sample environments

Double sided laser heating diamond anvil cell (YAG and CO2; T up to 5000 K)
Resistively heated diamond anvil cell (T up 1000 K)
High pressure He flow cryostat (T down to 5 K)
Paris-Edinburgh cell
Nano-positioning stage

Detectors

EIGER2 X CdTe 9M detector

Technical details

Beamline ID27 has been operating since 2006 in replacement of ID30 (an instrument which was mostly dedicated to white beam experimentation). This instrument is fully optimised for monochromatic high-resolution XRD in order to address the most exciting and challenging questions related to science at very high pressures. The beamline can easily accommodate very complex sample environments such as a double-sided laser heating system, Paris-Edinburgh press and HP helium cryostat. Techniques available are powder and single-crystal microdiffraction, and X-ray microfluorescence.