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

Journal Article · Fri Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953921· OSTI ID:1352668

Steinke, I. ^[1]; Walther, M. ^[2]; Lehmkühler, F. ^[1]; Wochner, P. ^[3]; Valerio, J. ^[2]; Mager, R. ^[4]; Schroer, M. A.  ^[1]; Lee, S. ^[5]; Roseker, W. ^[2]; Jain, A. ^[2]; Sikorski, M. ^[6]; Song, S. ^[6]; Hartmann, R.  ^[7]; Huth, M. ^[7]; Strüder, L. ^[7]; Sprung, M. ^[2]; Robert, A. ^[6]; Fuoss, P. H. ^[8]; Stephenson, G. B. ^[8]; Grübel, G. ^[1]

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1. German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) (Germany)
2. German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
3. Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany)
4. Max Planck Inst. for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart (Germany)
5. Korea Research Inst. of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of). Frontier in Extreme Physics
6. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
7. PNSensor GmbH, Munich (Germany)
8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

In this study 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. Finally, 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.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Korea Research Inst. of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); German Research Foundation (DFG); Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) (Germany); Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Korea, Republic of)
• Contributing Organization: The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) (Germany); Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany); Max Planck Inst. for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart (Germany); PNSensor GmbH, Munich (Germany)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515; NRF-2014M3C1A8048818; NRF-2014M1A7A1A01030128; AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1352668
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1257659; OSTI ID: 1352666
• Journal Information: Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 87, Issue 6; ISSN 0034-6748
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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