Beamline 18-ID-D: Sector 18 - Insertion Device Beamline

Description

The Biophysics Collaborative Access Team is an NIH-supported research center for the study of the structure and dynamics of partially ordered biological systems. Beamline 18-ID offers particular strengths in small angle solution scattering from macromolecules, small- and wide-angle fiber diffraction, and micro-emission and absorption imaging (5 micron spatial resolution). Solution scattering experiments, which provide data about macromolecular conformation in solution, can be done in static or time-resolved modes with millisecond-scale time resolution. Fiber diffraction patterns of exceptional quality can be obtained from complex, weakly diffracting biological systems in very short exposure times. The beamline has independent horizontal and vertical focusing and houses two independent monochromators. Source demagnification of up to 11:1 vertically and 7:1 horizontally can be attained, and rapid energy scans of 1 keV in 5 to 15 seconds are routinely available

Supported Techniques

• Fiber diffraction
• Microdiffraction
• Small-angle x-ray scattering
• Time-resolved x-ray scattering
• micro X-ray absorption fine structure

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

Rapid energy scanning capability.  Time slicing scalars for rapid data acquisition.

Detectors

• Mar 165 CCD detector
• High sensitivity 2k x 7k CCD detector with 39 micron pixels (80 x 160mm active area)
• Single element Si drift detector
• Vortex 4-element Si drift detector
• Laue analyzer/detector for Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mo, and Cd
• Multilayer fluorescence analyzer/detector
• Pilatus 100k pixel array detector

Additional Equipment

• K-B mirror microfocus system
• Linkham cryostage
• Small angle camera (up to 5 m camera length)
• Flow-through SAXS cell
• Stopped-flow/continuous-flow mixers for SAXS
• Combined x-ray cell/muscle physiology apparatus

Local Contacts

Beamline Specs

For additional information see:
http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/