ID15A - Materials Chemistry and Materials Engineering

Synopsis

ID15A is dedicated to applications of high energy X-ray radiation to materials chemistry and engineering.

Disciplines

• Chemistry
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Materials and Engineering
• Cultural Heritage

Applications

• Solid state chemistry
• In-situ and operando experiments
• Batteries, SOFC, catalytic reactors
• Total scattering
• High-energy time-resolved diffraction
• Metallurgy

Techniques

• Diffraction contrast tomography
• Energy dispersive diffraction
• Imaging, phase-contrast
• Imaging, pink beam
• Laminography
• Pair-distribution function analysis
• Pump-probe
• SAXS - small-angle X-ray scattering
• Time-resolved WAXS
• X-ray scattering

Sample environments

• High temperature (1500 K)
• Low temperature (1.2 K)
• Gas rigs
• Electrochemical cycling
• Strain scanner

Detectors

• WAXS area detectors
• SAXS area detectors
• Imaging cameras
• Fluorescence detectors
• Solid state detectors (Ge)

 

ID15A at the ESRF – a beamline for high speed operando X-ray diffraction, diffraction tomography and total scattering. G. Vaughan, et al. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 27, 515–528 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519016813