13 ID-C Beamline

This beamline houses a General Purpose Diffractometer used for crystal truncation rod (CTR) diffraction, resonant anomalous interface diffraction, long period x-ray standing waves, reflectivity, grazing incidence XRF, grazing incidence XAFS, inelastic x-ray scattering, and microcrystallography. The primary scientific focus is on characterizing mineral-water interface reactions which control the chemistry of natural waters by a variety of processes including sorption and desorption, mineral growth and dissolution, and biofilm and nanoparticle formation.    In addition, a Paris-Edinburgh cell is available for high pressure scattering experiments.

Supported Techniques

• Crystal Truncation Rod (CTR) Diffraction
• Resonant Anamalous X-Ray Reflectivity
• Grazing Incidence Spectroscopies (XRF, XAFS)
• Microcrystallography
• Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Major Beamline Components

• Canted Undulator Dual Crystal Monochromator
• One-Meter Long Kirkpatrick-Baez Mirrors with Silicon, Rhodium, and Platinum Stripes
• Newport Kappa Six-Circle General Purpose Diffractometer

Detectors

• Vortex Single-element and 4-element SDD detectors (2)
• Dectris Pilatus 100K pixel array detector
• Dectris Pilatus CdTe 300K-W

Additional Equipment

• Environmental cells for surface scattering that support in situ mineral-water interface chemistry, interfacial redox chemistry, electrochemistry, and radioactive samples
• Paris-Edinburgh high-pressure cell
• Access to GSECARS laboratories including microscopy instrumentation, wet lab, fume hood, laminar-flow hood, glove box and sample prep areas.
• LN2 Deicer

Beamline Specifications

APS Beamline Directory Entry for 13 ID C/D