Diamond Annual Review 2020/21

Key Facts and Figures Facility usage Our fourteenth year of operations (1 st April 2020 to 31 st March 2021) was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. With weekly operating hours reduced to four days, there was less experimental time available and the user programme was adjusted as a result. There was a limited call for proposals (for three months and for the physical sciences only) in that period, which had an impact on the number of submitted and awarded proposals, as well as the number of awarded shifts. We received 1,675 proposals for experiments on our instruments via peer reviewed access routes, requesting a total of 18,465 shifts. After peer review, 801 proposals were awarded beamtime. This resulted in 7,759 experimental shifts being awarded across 33 beamlines and 10 electron microscopes. We welcomed 488 on-site user visits from academia across all instruments, with an additional 4,473 remote user visits. Since March 2020, Diamond has been offering priority rapid access for groups who require instrument time for projects directly related to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins. The machine continues to perform to a high standard with 96.2% uptime and 132 hours mean time between failures (MTBF). Proposals by discipline and research theme Experimental shifts scheduled by Diamond by main subject area for 2020/21 Cumulative number of items in Diamond Publications Database by our scientists and users and cumulative number of protein structures solved Machine performance 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 Total no. operational beamlines by end FY 17 19 20 22 24 25 26 28 31 32 32 33 Scheduled hours of machine operation 5712 5808 6000 5832 5976 5808 5928 5688 6072 5904 5913 6120* Scheduled hours of user operation 4728 4728 5064 4872 5088 4944 5040 4584 5160 4992 4992 5088* Machine uptime % 97.0 97.5 97.7 98.3 98.2 97.6 97.6 98.7 98.2 98.4 98.1 96.2 Mean time between failures (hours) 26.2 28.5 55.4 52.4 60.3 38.6 119.4 103.1 79.9 90.3 104.7 132 B24 eBIC B21 B22 I22 B23 I03 I04 I04-1 I24 XChem I23 I11 I15 I15-1 I19 I06 I10 I16 I21 I05 B07 I07 I09 B18 I18 I20-XAS I20-EDE ePSIC I08 I12 DIAD I13-1 I13-2 I14 2018 2019 2020 2021 (April) 0 200 400 600 800 1, 000 1,200 1,400 1,600 1,800 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 B16* Total user shifts requested, awarded and delivered ■ Requested ■ Awarded ■ Delivered ■ Individual remote user visits ■ Proposals awarded ■ Proposals submitted ■ Individual on-site user visits Total numbers of proposals and users per year B24 eBIC B21 B22 I22 B23 I03 I04 I04-1 I24 XChe I23 I11 I15 I15-1 I19 I06 I10 I16 I21 I05 B07 I07 I09 B18 I18 I20-XAS I20-EDE ePSIC I08 I12 DIAD I13-1 I13-2 I14 2018 2019 2020 2021 (April) 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 1, 0 1,2 0 1,4 0 1,6 0 1,8 0 0 5, 0 10, 0 15, 0 20, 0 25, 0 30, 0 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 0 2, 0 4, 0 6,0 0 8,0 0 10,0 0 12,0 0 14,0 0 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 B16* Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Biology and Bio-materials Chemistry Earth Science Energy Engineering Environment Food Science Materials Medicine Physics Technique Development Other* 21%* 30% 4% 1% 2% 0% 5% 13% 2% 0% 8% * Non-standard proposals, including rapid access for projects directly related to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins, have not been tagged with a main subject area. 1% 13% B24 eBIC B21 B22 I22 B23 I03 I04 I04-1 I24 XChem I23 I11 I15 I15-1 I19 I06 I10 I16 I21 I05 B07 I07 I09 B18 I18 I20-XAS I20-EDE ePSIC I08 I12 DIAD I13-1 I13-2 I14 2018 2019 2020 2021 (April) 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 14000 12000 Journal Papers in the Diamond Publications Database Proteins Deposited in the PDB Other items in the Diamond Publications Database (conference papers, book chapters, etc.) * no posters 0 200 400 600 800 1, 000 1,200 1,400 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 B16* 10 11 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 0 / 2 1 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 0 / 2 1 User shifts requested, awarded and delivered by group, beamline and electronmicroscope 2020/21 ■ Requested ■ Awarded ■ Delivered * B16 is theTest beamline, with 50% of beamtime for users.The rest is used for in-house developments for all beamlines. B24 eBIC B21 B22 I22 B23 I03 I04 I04-1 I24 XChem I23 I11 I15 I15-1 I19 I06 I10 I16 I21 I05 B07 I07 I09 B18 I18 I20-XAS I20-EDE ePSIC I08 I12 DIAD I13-1 I13-2 I14 2018 2019 2020 2021 (April) 2017 2016 2015 0 200 400 600 800 1, 000 1,200 1,400 1,600 1,800 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 0 2,00 4,00 6, 8,00 10,00 12,000 14,000 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 B16* Soft Condensed Matter Group Macromolecular Crystallography Group Magnetic Materials Group Stuctures and Surfaces Group Biological Cryo- Imaging Group Crystallography Group Spectroscopy Group Imaging and Microscopy Group Members of staff visiting as part of peer reviewed access routes are included in the count for user visits. In-house research is excluded from this report. * The number of machine and user operation hours delivered was reduced to 4345 and 3445 respectively, as a result of the pandemic.