MSPD

Materials Science and Powder Diffraction Beam Line

The Materials Science and Powder Diffraction Beamline will be devoted to high resolution powder diffraction and high pressure powder diffraction using diamond anvil cells. The beamline will operate between 8 and 50 keV. This energy range covers very well the desirable range for almost any powder diffraction experiment, and at the same time it will be possible to perform both total scattering experiments, and high pressure diffraction, for which it is desirable and sometimes necessary to have high energy sources (E > 30 KeV). To accommodate the different experimental techniques there will be two experimental end stations, one devoted to high resolution powder diffraction and the second one to high pressure experiments.

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Status: comissioning the beamline for operation

Milestones

2009 August: Erection of the Experiments and Optics lead hutch

2010 May: Installation of the main optical components.

2011 October 11: First beam at Optics Hutch.

Staff

Francois Fauth and Inma Peral : Beamline Scientists

Carles Colldelram: Beamline Engineer

Zbigniew Reszela: Controls Engineer

Francesc Farré: Technician

Open positions

Postdoctoral position availabe

Beamline characteristics

Photon Energy Range	8 - 50 keV
Flux at sample	~ 4 10¹² ph/s
Energy resolution	2 10^-4
Beam size at sample	variable: 1.5 x 5mm²to 0.010 x 0.040mm²
Beam divergence at sample	variable