Versatile USAXS (Bonse-Hart) Facility for Advanced Materials Research
- School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 (United States)
- Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (United States)
The USAXS facility at UNICAT Sector 33 at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a world-class resource for advanced materials research emphasizing full-range characterization of nanometer-scale to micrometer-scale microstructures. Receiving photons from an APS Undulator A X-ray source, the instrument delivers {approx_equal} 1013 ph s-1 incident in a 0.4 mm x 2.5 mm area at the sample position for 10 keV photons, has an incident photon energy range from 7 keV to 19 keV, a single-scan Q range (where Q = 4{pi}/{lambda} sin {theta}, {lambda} is the photon wavelength, and 2{theta} is the angle of scatter) from 0.0001 A-1 to 1 A-1, over 10 decades of detector intensity range, absolute intensity calibration by primary methods, fluorescence rejection in the scattered beam, excellent energy resolution ({delta}{lambda}/{lambda}) for anomalous USAXS, and a maximum unfocused beam size of 0.4 mm x 2.5 mm, with useful beams as small as 20 {mu}m x 20 {mu}m. The facility offers semi-automated data reduction, rapid and rigorous data analysis using state-of-the-art structure factors and models, and radiographic and USAXS-imaging. Both 1-D collimated (slit-smeared configuration) and 2-D collimated configurations are routinely available. Ongoing development of this facility continues in an active partnership between the instrument scientists and the user community.
- OSTI ID:
- 20652995
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 705, Issue 1; Conference: 8. international conference on synchrotron radiation instrumentation, San Francisco, CA (United States), 25-29 Aug 2003; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1757846; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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