APS 13-BM-C Diamond Anvil Cell High-Pressure Diffraction¶

Beamline Overview¶

The 13-BM-C station uses focused monochromatic X-rays from a bending magnet for High-Pressure X-ray diffraction measurements on samples in Diamond Anvil Cells.

Contacts¶

Name

email

Dongzhou Zhang

dzzhang@cars.uchicago.edu

Vitali Prakapenka

prakapenka@cars.uchicago.edu

Beamline specifications¶

Quantity

Value

X-ray Source

APS bending magnet

Monochromator

single-bounce, horizontally focussing, multiple crystals

Si (111) monochromator crystal

Energy Range (keV)

15

Energy Resolution

1.3x10^-4, typical

Typical Flux (Hz)

1x10¹² (15 keV)

Typical Beam Size

350 x 30 (H x V) μm

Si (311) monochromator crystal

Energy Range (keV)

28.6

Energy Resolution

5x10^-5, typical

Typical Flux (Hz)

8x10¹¹ (28.6 keV)

Typical Beam Size

15 x 15 (H x V) μm, or 10 x 3 (H x V) mm

Supported Techniques¶

Surface Diffraction (see APS 13-BM-C Surface and Powder Diffraction)

High-pressure diamond anvil cell

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction

Detectors¶

Pilatus3S 1M Si, 1 mm thick, 172 μm pixels.

Pilatus 100K Si, 0.5 mm thick, 172 μm pixels.

Vortex silicon drift diode detector

Additional Equipment¶

Large Newport 6-circle kappa diffractometer.

Princeton Instruments SP2360 spectrograph with PIXIS CCD

GE membrane pressure controller for diamond anvil cell

Laser Quantum GEM1000 532 nm 1W DPSS laser

IPG YLR-200 1064 nm 200 W fiber laser

Navitar 12X zoom optical microscope

Data Collection Software¶

Data collection is done with the Epics, IDL, and Python.

Data Visualization and Analysis Software¶

X-ray Source and Optics¶

13-BM-C uses a portion of the APS bending magnet fan, and a single-bounce monochromator

Sample Mounting and Environments¶

Diamond Anvil Cells…

Typical Paragraph for a publication¶

The following includes typical descriptions of the beamline that can be added to a paper. This is probably more than you need, so feel free to edit or select portions of this for main text or supplemental informations as appropriate, or ask the beamline staff for guidance.

This work used the beamline 13-BM-C at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

APS 13-BM-C Diamond Anvil Cell High-Pressure Diffraction¶

Beamline Overview¶

Contacts¶

Beamline specifications¶

Supported Techniques¶

Detectors¶

Additional Equipment¶

Data Collection Software¶

Data Visualization and Analysis Software¶

X-ray Source and Optics¶

Sample Mounting and Environments¶

Typical Paragraph for a publication¶

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Name	email
Dongzhou Zhang	dzzhang@cars.uchicago.edu
Vitali Prakapenka	prakapenka@cars.uchicago.edu

Quantity		Value
X-ray Source		APS bending magnet
Monochromator		single-bounce, horizontally focussing, multiple crystals
Si (111) monochromator crystal
	Energy Range (keV)	15
	Energy Resolution	1.3x10^-4, typical
	Typical Flux (Hz)	1x10¹² (15 keV)
	Typical Beam Size	350 x 30 (H x V) μm
Si (311) monochromator crystal
	Energy Range (keV)	28.6
	Energy Resolution	5x10^-5, typical
	Typical Flux (Hz)	8x10¹¹ (28.6 keV)
	Typical Beam Size	15 x 15 (H x V) μm, or 10 x 3 (H x V) mm

APS 13-BM-C Diamond Anvil Cell High-Pressure Diffraction¶

Beamline Overview¶

Contacts¶

Beamline specifications¶

Supported Techniques¶

Detectors¶

Additional Equipment¶

Data Collection Software¶

Data Visualization and Analysis Software¶

X-ray Source and Optics¶

Sample Mounting and Environments¶

Typical Paragraph for a publication¶

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