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Each beamline at Diamond is optimised for a specific technique. Read more about the various techniques here. You can also search our research expertise pages to find an expert who can advise on which beamlines are appropriate for your area of research.

Beamlines by technique

Beamline Name and Number Main Techniques Energy / wavelength range Status
I02 - Macromolecular Crystallography Macromolecular Crystallography, MAD 5 - 25 keV Operational
I03 - Macromolecular Crystallography Macromolecular Crystallography, MAD 5 - 25 keV Operational
I04 - Macromolecular Crystallography Macromolecular Crystallography, MAD 5 - 25 keV Operational
I04-1 - Monochromatic MX Macromolecular Crystallography 13.53 keV (0.9163 Å – fixed wavelength) Operational in optimisation mode
I05 - ARPES Angle-resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy (ARPES)   In design phase
I06 - Nanoscience X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray photoemission microscopy and X-Ray Magnetic Circular and Linear Dichroism
  • First harmonic circular: 106 - 1300 eV
  • Linear Horizontal: 80 - 2100 eV
  • Linear Vertical: 130 - 1500 eV
Operational
I07 - Surface and Interface Diffraction Surface X-ray diffraction, Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXD), Graxing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS), X-ray Reflectivity (XRR) 6 - 25 (30) keV Operational in optimisation mode
I08 - Soft X-ray Microscopy     In design phase
I09 - Surface and Interface Structural Analysis    

Completion date: Oct 2012

I10 - Beamline for Advanced Dichroism Experiments (BLADE) soft x-ray resonant scattering, x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism 400 - 2000 eV First Users: Dec 2010
I11 - High resolution powder diffraction  X-ray powder diffraction 5-30 keV (0.4-2.5 Å) Operational
I12 - JEEP: Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing Imaging and tomography, X-ray diffraction, Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), Single Crystal Diffraction, Powder diffraction 50 - 150 keV Operational in optimisation mode
I13L - X-Ray Imaging and Coherence Phase contrast imaging, Tomography   First Users: Oct 2011
I15 - Extreme Conditions Powder diffraction, single crystal diffraction 20 - 70 keV mono mode. Beam size conditions apply for high energies > 30 KeV.
Minimum beam size >30 keV is 80-100 microns.
Operational
I16 - Materials and Magnetism Diffraction/Scattering, Spectroscopy 3.5 - 25 keV Operational
B16 - Test Beamline Diffraction, imaging, reflectometry
  • 4 - 20 keV monochromatic focused
  • 4 - 20 keV monochromatic unfocused
  • White beam
Operational
I18 - Microfocus Spectroscopy X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS), Fluorescence tomography 2 - 20 keV Operational
B18 - Core EXAFS XAS 2.05 – 35 keV Operational in optimisation mode
I19 - Small molecule single crystal diffraction Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction 5 to 25 keV / 0.5 to 2.5 Å Operational
I20 - LOLA: X-ray spectroscopy X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS), Energy Dispersive EXAFS (EDE), X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
  • Dispersive branch: 6-26 keV
  • Scanning branch: 4-34 keV
Under construction
B21 - High throughput SAXS     In design phase
I22 - Non-crystalline diffraction Non-Crystalline diffraction: SAXS, WAXS, ASAXS, USAXS 3.7 - 20 keV Operational
B22 - Infrared Microspectroscopy Infrared Microspectroscopy 1.2 eV - 2.4 meV Operational in optimisation mode
I23 - Long Wavelength MX     In design phase
B23 - Circular dichroism Circular Dichroism
  • 2-8 keV for monochromatic mode
  • 5-8 keV for energy dispersive mode using white-light
Operational
I24 - Microfocus MX Macromolecular Crystallography, MAD 6.5 - 25.0 keV Operational