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The sample environment development lab (Lab 38) is primarily for developing and commissioning novel sample environments for the SAXS beamlines, as well as working with existing sample environments in offline experiments.

If you are interested in developing an integrated sample environment for experiments please contact Nick Terrill or Paul Wady to discuss options

I22 has lab and staffing resources to put towards sample environment development of use to the general SAXS user community and is always interested in collaboration. To ensure a broad user base, multi-institution collaborations are preferred. 

Two areas of development are supported: 

1. Integration of existing sample environments with Diamond’s EPICS DAQ and environmental control software.
2. Development of sample environments.

Equipment developed in this way will be made available to the user community, both for use on I22 and DL-SAXS beamline and in offline institutional laboratories.

Hardware available in the Development lab includes

• Full Data Acquisition Rack
• A terminal server that provides a clone of the beamline systems
• PandA
• EPICS and GDA Install for software integration allowing testing prior to beamline use.
• Selection of breadboards for sample environment mounting