Beamline 33-BM-C: Sector 33 - Bending Magnet Beamline

Description

This facility provides advanced x-ray scattering and diffraction techniques to a diverse scientific community. Station 33-BM-C is a multi-purpose scattering facility capable of high-resolution scattering with excellent energy resolution. This facility supports advanced materials research as well as condensed matter physics. Primary usage encompasses scattering and diffraction from thin-films, diffuse x-ray scattering, and general purpose diffraction.    The optical design of the beamline includes a vertically collimating x-ray mirror followed by a double crystal monochromator and a vertically focusing mirror. The double crystal monochromator uses sagittal focusing crystals for horizontal focusing. The mirrors are Pd coated to provide excellent harmonic rejection, and maintain excellent reflectivity below about 24 KeV. (For operations above 24 KeV, the mirrors are removed). The combination of optical elements is designed to allow maximum flexibility while preserving beam brilliance and simultaneously optimizing energy and momentum transfer resolution.

Supported Techniques

• Diffuse x-ray scattering
• General diffraction
• Powder diffraction
• X-ray reflectivity
• Grazing incidence diffraction
• Anomalous and resonant scattering (hard x-ray)

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

UNIX/LINUX running EPICS with VME, SPEC.

Detectors

• Scintillation counters
• Gas-filled proportional counters (Xe, Ar)
• Ionization chambers
• Vortex
• Pilatus 100K (APS Detector pool)

Additional Equipment

• Huber 4-circle diffractometer (33-BM-C)
• Cooling stage (10K to 300K)
• Cooling stage (50K to 700K)
• Heating stage in air up to 400C

Local Contacts

Beamline Specs

For additional information see:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/Sectors/33_34/