ID11 - Materials science beamline

Synopsis

ID11 is a beamline dedicated to moderate to high energy diffraction and/or imaging studies of a variety of systems of interest for their physical, mechanical, or chemical properties. Very high spatial (<100 nm) and time (1 ms) resolution are available.

Status: open

Disciplines

Materials and Engineering
Chemistry
Physics
Environmental Sciences
Cultural Heritage
Medicine
Life Sciences

Applications

Structural materials
Energy materials
Hydrogen storage materials
Batteries
Fuel Cells
Engineering materials
Microelectronics materials
Metallurgy
Automotive
Aviation
Functional Materials

Techniques

Diffraction contrast tomography
Diffuse X-ray scattering
Imaging
Pair-distribution function analysis
Powder diffraction
XRD - X-ray diffraction

Energy range

18.0 - 140.0 keV

Beam size

Minimum (H x V) : 0.2 x 0.07 µm²
Maximum (H x V) : 1200.0 x 1000.0 µm²

Sample environments

Nanometre precision translations
Nitrogen cooling airgun
Moderate temperature oven
High temperature oven
Stress rig

Detectors

Dectris Eiger2 X CdTe 4M
FReLoN2k with fibre-optic coupling
FReLoN4m with fibre-optic coupling
FReLoN4m with high resolution microscope
Andor Marana sCMOS imaging detector

Technical details

Following the recent upgrade of the beamline to add a nano-resolution station at 100m, it is now possible to carry out very high spatial resolution simultaneous diffraction and imaging studies, allowing the mapping of materials with better than 100 nm resolution. Time resolution to 1ms is available.

G. Vaughan et al., "The extension of ID11 for nanoscale and hierarchical characterization", in Proceedings of the 31st Risoe International Symposium on Materials Science, 2010.