The High Pressure end station station consists of two stacks of linear and rotation stages from Huber (Germany).

The first stack - sample tower - has from bottom up,
       2 crossed movement linear stages (XYdown +/- 25mm range)
       a vertical translation stage (Z 90mm range) 
       a rotation stage (Omega 360°)
       2 crossed movement linear stages (XYup +/- 25mm range)

The second stack - detector tower - has from bottom up
       2 long linear stages (400mm range Y along the beam, 350mm range X prependicular to the beam),
       a vertical translation (Z 90mm range)
       a rotation stage (+/- 90°)
       a tilt stage (+/- 5°)

In addition, a pin-hole prior to the sample and the beam stop can be remotely positioned along XYZ and XZ, respectively.     

Sample environment and equipment available at ALBA for the High Pressure and Micro Diffraction station can be retrieved from SAMPLE ENVIRONMENTS page.

To integrate user supplied cells or equipment and to verify availability of the sample environments, please contact beamline staff.
To adapt mechanical pieces on the HP station, you can download the detailed drawing of the XY stage surface.
The nominal distance from XY stage surface to the beam is 200 mm. Payload  must not exceed 30 kg.

Detector

Data are processed inline using softwares developped/modified inhouse. Standard output file format is a 3 column ASCII file with 2Theta, Intensity, Estimated Standard Deviation, with up to 4 header lines starting with symbol #.

Support equipment

At MSPD we have available a High Pressure laboratory for sample preparation and DAC loading.

High pressure Lab

Check out the equipment available