14-ID-B: Sector 14 - Insertion Device

BioCARS
Life Sciences

14-ID-B beamline is an insertion device beamline with two U21 in-line undulators. A series of choppers, shutters and mirrors is used to isolate single ~250 ps X-ray pulses or longer pulse trains and to focus the X-ray beam onto the sample. In the standard mode of operation polychromatic beam is used and secondary KB mirrors permit focusing down to 25 x 15 µm^2 (H x V). This station supports Laue Time-Resolved Crystallography and Time-Resolved Solution Scattering. Special capabilities - Crystallography: single-crystal and serial time-resolved crystallography; reaction initiation methods: photo-initiation including caged compounds, temperature jump, mix-and-inject, electric-field-jump. Special capabilities - Solution scattering: time-resolved solution scattering with simultaneous SAXS and WAXS; reaction initiation methods: photo-initiation including caged compounds, temperature jump, pH jump.

Beamline Specifications
Source :
Monochromator Type : pink beam
Energy Range : 9-15 keV
Beam Size Hxv :
Focused : 25µm x 15µm
Flux :
Resolution :

Source :
Monochromator Type : Si(111)
Energy Range : 9-15 keV
Resolution : 1.4 x 10-4
Flux : 7 x 1013 @12 keV
Beam Size Hxv :
Focused : 25µm x 15µm

Quick Stats
Current Status
Operational/Accepting General Users
Access Mode
On-site
Special Capabilities
Time-resolved Laue crystallography, serial time-resolved crystallography, electric-field-jump crystallography, time-resolved solution scattering (SAXS/WAXS).
Beamline Contacts
VUKICA SRAJER
Email
ROBERT W HENNING
Email
IRINA V KOSHELEVA
Email
Beamline Techniques
Time-resolved crystallography
Laue crystallography
Serial Crystallography
Macromolecular crystallography
Time-resolved x-ray scattering
Small-angle x-ray scattering
Wide-angle x-ray scattering
Endstations
14-ID-B
Time-resolved Laue macromolecular crystallography
14-ID-B
Time-resolved serial Laue crystallography
14-ID-B
Electric field-jump time-resolved crystallography
14-ID-B
Time-resolved solution scattering (SAXS/WAXS)
Detectors
Rayonix MX340-HS
ePix 10K
Equipment
ALIO air-bearing diffractometer
Oxford Cryo-Jet crystal coolers
Carl Zeiss microscopes
Cold room
Laser laboratory with cw and pulsed lasers, off-line micro-spectrophotometer
Chemical laboratory
Additional Information
Software
Beamline controls: EPICS. Data acquisition: BioCARS-developed GUI. Data processing: Precognition, CrystFEL etc. (https://biocars.uchicago.edu/facilities/software)
Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition
Beamline controls: EPICS. Data acquisition: BioCARS-developed GUI. Data processing: Precognition, CrystFEL etc. (https://biocars.uchicago.edu/facilities/software)