Proposal & Science Case

Proposal background

This new proposed beamline, called SWIFT (Spectroscopy WithIn Fast Timescales), will be a high flux beamline optimized for the study of samples under operando conditions, and with the added potential to investigate sample heterogeneities at the 20 μm scale. The beamline will exceed the capabilities of the other XAS beamlines at Diamond for experiments that require an element of time resolution in dilute samples, and will bridge the existing spatial resolution gap between I18 and B18. It is expected that SWIFT will serve a very broad scientific community and that it will also significantly enhance Diamond’s capabilities for industrially relevant X-ray spectroscopy. 
 
We are proposing to build the new beamline on one of the newly available insertion device ports, using a multi-pole wiggler as the source. This new source will provide a significant improvement in flux over B18, and will consequently allow the investigation of faster processes in more dilute samples (fluorescence detection mode on the millisecond time regime), while keeping the efficiency of the continuous energy scans which have been proven very successful.  An additional end-station providing a smaller focal spot is also proposed for the beamline, to allow SWIFT to perform spatially resolved studies of heterogeneous systems. It is anticipated that the scope of this project will also include, from day one, appropriate experimental infrastructure, to support complex environments and experimental conditions.

Full Science Case

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