EXPLORE ESRF BEAMLINES - XMaS/BM28, the UK materials science beamline at the ESRF - Didier Wermeille

XMaS/BM28, the UK materials science beamline at the ESRF
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“Everything you always wanted to know about XMaS.

But were afraid to ask.”

by Didier Wermeille

on behalf of the extended XMaS team.

Abstract

XMaSBM28 is a UKRI National Research Facility (NRF) funded by the EPSRC serving the UK, Europe and International scientific communities with state-of-the-art instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation X-ray characterization techniques. Started as the X-ray Magnetic Scattering (XMaS) beamline in 1997, it became the UK X-ray Materials Science (still XMaS) NRF in 2012, continuously serving the materials science communities for now almost 30 years. It offers diffraction, scattering and spectroscopy techniques from the tender energy range at 2.035 keV (P K-edge) up to the harder regime at 47 keV (Sm K-edge). Experiments take place in a vast and diverse combined sample environment, including a 1.8 K Joule-Thomson cryostat, ± 4 T magnetic field, ± 10 kV voltage, a 700 K cryo-furnace, a reflectometer chamber with temperature control, incident beam conditioning with quarter-wave plate phase retarders and polarization analysis of the beam diffracted by the sample, a ball chamber for low energy spectroscopy, a solar chamber and a Linkam cell. The applications encompass a wide range of fields, including in-situ electrochemistry, operando heterogeneous catalysis, photovoltaic, multiferroic and magnetic materials, soft matter and health care.

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