ID15A - Materials Chemistry and Materials Engineering

Synopsis

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

Status: open

Disciplines

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

Applications

Solid-state chemistry
Nanomaterials
Batteries
Catalysis
Glasses and disordered systems
Hierarchical structures

Techniques

Diffraction contrast tomography
Imaging, phase-contrast
Pair-distribution function analysis
Time-resolved WAXS
X-ray scattering
XRF - X-ray fluorescence
Pump-probe
Microbeam

Energy range

20.0 - 280.0 keV

Beam size

Minimum (H x V) : 0.45 x 0.3 µm²
Maximum (H x V) : 1.8 x 1.6 mm²

Sample environments

Biologic SP-300 potentiostat (1 µA - 10 A)
Gas loading system with remote-controlled mass-flow controllers and electrovalves
DRIFTS spectrometer with temperature/gas reaction chamber (300-800 K)
Flow-through cell for liquid-phase and gas-phase reactions (300-500 K)
Cryostream (80-500 K)
Capillary oven [nanocrystalline samples only] (300-1200 K)
Gas blower (300 - 1000 K)

Detectors

Pilatus3 X 2M CdTe (WAXS)
Pilatus4 XE 4M CdTe (WAXS)
PCOedgeHS (imaging)
Mirion HPGe-CMOS and Hitachi Vortex Si-drift (Fluorescence)

Reference publications

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

Characterization and calibration of DECTRIS PILATUS3 X CdTe 2M high- hybrid pixel detector for high-precision powder diffraction measurements. G. Vaughan, et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography (2024) https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576724010033