A liquid jet setup for x-ray scattering experiments on complex liquids at free-electron laser sources

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953921· OSTI ID:22597981

Steinke, I.; Schroer, M. A.; Grübel, G. ^[1]; Walther, M.; Valerio, J.; Roseker, W.; Jain, A.; Sprung, M. ^[1]; Wochner, P. ^[2]; Mager, R. ^[3]; Lee, S. ^[4]; Sikorski, M.; Song, S.; Robert, A. ^[5]; Hartmann, R.; Huth, M.; Strüder, L. ^[6]; Fuoss, P. H.; Stephenson, G. B. ^[7]

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1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg (Germany)
2. Max Plank-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany)
3. Max Plank-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Heisenbergstr. 3, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany)
4. Frontier in Extreme Physics, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon 305-600 (Korea, Republic of)
5. LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 (United States)
6. PNSensor GmbH, Sckellstraße 3, 81667 München (Germany)
7. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)

In this paper we describe a setup for x-ray scattering experiments on complex fluids using a liquid jet. The setup supports Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS) geometries. The jet is formed by a gas-dynamic virtual nozzle (GDVN) allowing for diameters ranging between 1 μm and 20 μm at a jet length of several hundred μm. To control jet properties such as jet length, diameter, or flow rate, the instrument is equipped with several diagnostic tools. Three microscopes are installed to quantify jet dimensions and stability in situ. The setup has been used at several beamlines performing both SAXS and WAXS experiments. As a typical example we show an experiment on a colloidal dispersion in a liquid jet at the X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser.

• OSTI ID: 22597981
• Journal Information: Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 87, Issue 6; Other Information: (c) 2016 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
CONTROL
CORRELATIONS
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISPERSIONS
ELECTRONS
FLOW RATE
FREE ELECTRON LASERS
GEOMETRY
JETS
LENGTH
LIGHT SOURCES
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
LIQUIDS
MICROSCOPES
NOZZLES
SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING
STABILITY
X RADIATION
X-RAY DIFFRACTION