The Powder Diffraction endstation consists of a heavy duty 3 circles diffractometer manufactured by Huber (Germany). The outer and middle circles support respectively the high_angular resolution Multi Analyzer Detection (MAD) setup and the high-throughput Position Sensitive Detector (PSD) MYTHEN. The inner circle is equipped with an Eulerian Cradle (512.1 model from Huber) on which all sample environments are mounted. An ALBA designed 4 capillaries holder can be used with either cryostream and hot blower.   

Sample environment and equipment available at ALBA for Powder Diffraction station can be retrieved from SAMPLE ENVIRONMENTS page.       

To integrate user supplied equipment and to verify availability of proposed sample environments, please contact beamline staff. 
To adapt mechanical pieces on the PD station, you can download the detailed drawing of the XYZ stage surface.
Note the distance from XYZ stage surface to the beam can not exceed 60 mm.

Detectors

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