ID13 - Microfocus Beamline

Synopsis

ID13 is dedicated to high-spatial-resolution diffraction and scattering experiments using focused monochromatic x-ray beams. Two endstations, a microbranch and a nanobranch, are operated in serial mode.

Status: open

Disciplines

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

Applications

Hierarchically structured materials
Biological fibers and tissues (bio-materials, bio-medical applications)
Polymer research
Food science
Earth and planetary science
Nano-composites
Semiconductors
Nano-structures
Nanobeam x-ray optics

Techniques

MicroXRF - micro X-ray fluorescence
Microbeam
Microcrystallography
Ptychography
SAXS - small-angle X-ray scattering
XRD - X-ray diffraction

Energy range

7.0 - 30.0 keV

Beam size

Minimum (H x V) : 100.0 x 100.0 nm²
Maximum (H x V) : 20.0 x 20.0 µm²

Sample environments

Humdidity control for small samples (< 1 mm^3)
Nano-Calorimetry
Micro-fluidics
Low temperature (90K, liquid-nitrogen-based cryostream, microbranch only)

Detectors

Dectris EigerX 4M (2070 x 2167 pixel, 75 micron pixel size)
Maxipix 2x2 four-element pixel detector (516 x 516 pixel, 55 micron pixel size)
2 VortexEM XRF detectors (on permanent loan from Ghent University)

Technical details

The available beam parameters such as spot size, divergence, and flux vary with the incident photon energy (e.g. highest flux available close to standard energies 13 keV). In SAXS with nanobeam scanning, minimum q is coupled with beam size. Various combinations of scanning mode, beam size, and fluorescence mode are available depending on the technique chosen.