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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

Highlights