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Beamline 9-BM-B,C: Sector 9 - Bending Magnet Beamline

X-ray Science Division, APS
Materials Science, Chemistry

Description

The XOR Spectroscopy Group operates the bending magnet beamline 9-BM to serve the materials science and chemistry user communities. It provides a focused, tunable x-ray beam for XAFS and XANES experiments.
 

Supported Techniques

  • X-ray absorption fine structure

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

Sun UNIX running EPICS with VME, SPEC.

Detectors

  • Ion chambers
  • Lytle detector
  • Scintillation counters
  • 13-element Ge solid state detector
  • electron yield detector

Additional Equipment

  • Cryostat (10-300 K) on request

Local Contacts

Name TRUDY B. BOLIN
Phone 630.252.0336
Name STEVE M. HEALD
Phone 630.252.9795

Beamline Specs

Source

Bending Magnet

Monochromator Type

Si(111), Si(220) twin

Energy Range

2.1-23 keV

Resolution (ΔE/E)

1 x 10 -4

Flux (photons/sec)

 1 x 10 11 @15 keV

Beam Size (HxV)

 

Focused

500µm x 500µm

Unfocused

1mm x 1mm

Current Status:

Operational/Accepting General Users

Access Mode:

On-site