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Beamline phone numbers:
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+44 (0) 1235 77 8713 

Principal Beamline Scientist: 
Nick Terrill

Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778047
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Equipment

End Station

Last updated: 19 April 2016

Equipment or Component

Comments

Camera length 1.9-9.9 m

Can access wide q range by changing energy. Camera lengths in 0.25m steps possible

Energy range 7 – 20 keV

In air operation for all sample environments

Large sample table (100 kg)

GDA names (base_x, base_y)

Travel of table is ± 100 mm in vertical and horizontal directions

Precision XY translation stage (1 kg)

GDA names (pxy_x, pxy_y)

Travel of table is ± 50 mm in vertical and horizontal directions

Rotation stage (10 kg)

GDA name (rot)

0 to 360°

0.2° increment

Precision rotation stage (1 kg)

GDA name (prot)

0 to 360°

0.05° increment

 Detectors

Pilatus P3-2M

2D SAXS detector (Default)

Pilatus P3-2M-DLS-L

L shaped WAXS detector (Default)

Fast shutter

In vacuum

Microfocus end station

 

GISAXS end station  

Inline microscope

 

* Restrictions apply. Please contact beamline staff well in advance to discuss feasibility.

Sample Environments

Last updated: 27 May 2026

Capillary sample changer (including temperature Control via water bath)

 

Liquid cell holder

liquid sample holder

 

Solid sample grid (large holes - 10mm dia)

 

Solid sample grid (small holes - 5mm dia)

 

Capillary holder

capillary holder

 

Thermally controlled sample rack for DSC pans

heated DSC pans

 

Heated capillary holder

Heated Capillary Rack

 

Lauda recirculating bath (-20 to 150°C dependant on heat transfer fluid)

 

Linkam DSC

Linkam DSC

 (-180 to 550°C)

 

Linkam capillary stage (-180 to 550°C)

 

Stopped Flow – 4 syringe.

Stop Flow

Please contact beamline team before submitting.

Stand alone control by proprietary software

Peristaltic pump

Peristaltic pump

 

Syringe pumps - 2 syringe

Syringe pump

Minimum speed is 1.5 pl/min, or 0.025pl/s, using a 0.5 µl syringe. The travel rates are within 0.18µm/min - 190.8mm/min

 

Cryojet (-180 to 210°C)

CryoJet

 

P-Jump Cell (0 to 140°C, 50 to 5000 bar)

PJump Cell

Please contact beamline team before submitting

Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC)

dacdac2

The Boehler-Almax Plate DAC is equipped with two pairs of diamonds (300um and 800um culet size). The achievable pressure depends on choice of the diamond anvil size. Anvils with 800um diameter are used to achieve pressures about 0.1-10GPa, as 300um anvils are capable of compressing up to 70-80GPa.

The guide for using the PlateDAC and sample loading are available on request.

Please contact beamline team before submitting

In-vacuum flow cell.

The in-vacuum flow cell chamber

This vacuum chamber extends the WAXS nose conde, allowing samples in flow from e.g. peristalic pump, syringe pump or user-supplied fluid systems to be examined without background from the WAXS entrance window.

Please contact beamline team before submitting

Support Facilities

I22 shares the newly refurbished SCM Biology, Chemistry and Instrumentation Labs. Please check when submitting lab form which one you need. 

We also run our own Sample Environment Development Lab (SEDL) which can be used in advance of any visit to aid integration of User Sample Environments with EPICS/GDA. Time in SEDL can be booked via UAS and allows 2 person teams to visit Diamond and discuss/work with our team to best plan for your experiment on I22.

Equipment in other support labs is available for users. Please consult the offline laboratories pages.

For any further information, please contact a member of the beamline staff. 

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