Diamond Annual Review 2023/24

Key Facts and Figures Facility usage In our seventeenth year of operations (1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024), we received 2,034 proposals for experiments on our instruments via peer reviewed access routes, requesting a total of 26,211 shifts. After peer review, 1,312 proposals were awarded beamtime. This resulted in 15,972 experimental shifts being awarded across 33 beamlines and seven electron microscopes delivering time to academic users. We welcomed 5,398 onsite user visits from academia across all instruments, with an additional 4,078 remote user visits. The machine continues to perform to the highest standard with 97% uptime and 98.4 hours mean time between failures (MTBF). 0.00 500.00 1,000.00 1,500.00 2,000.00 2,500.00 3,000.00 B24 eBIC B21 B22 I22 B23 DL-SAXS I03 I04 I04-1/XChem I23 I24 VMXi VMXm I11 I15 I15-1 I19 I06 I10 I16 I21 I05 B07 I07 I09 B18 I18 I20-Scanning I20-EDE ePSIC I08 DIAD I12 I13-1 I13-2 I14 B16* 0.00 5,000.00 10,000.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 25,000.00 30,000.00 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 0.000 2,000.000 4,000.000 6,000.000 8,000.000 10,000.000 12,000.000 14,000.000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024(May) 0.00 500.00 1,000.00 1,500.00 2,000.00 2,500.00 3,000.00 B24 eBIC B21 B22 I22 B23 DL-SAXS I03 I04 I04-1/XChem I23 I24 VMXi VMXm I11 I15 I15-1 I19 I06 I10 I16 I21 I05 B07 I07 I09 B18 I18 I20-Scanning I20-EDE ePSIC I08 DIAD I12 I13-1 I13-2 I14 B16* 0.00 5,000.00 10,000.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 25,000.00 30,000.00 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 0.000 2,000.000 4,000.000 6,000.000 8,000.000 10,000.000 12,000.000 14,000.000 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024(May) 6 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 3 / 2 4 User shifts requested, awarded and delivered by group, beamline and electronmicroscope 2023/24 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 ■ Requested ■ Awarded ■ Delivered * B16 is the Test beamline, with 50% of beamtime for users. The rest is used for in-house developments for all beamlines. 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 * Staff visits are now included for academic access routes, in-house research is still excluded * also includes shifts requested awarded and delivered on labs and offline facilities