An endstation for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering studies of solid and liquid samples

Abstract

A novel experimental setup is presented for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering investigations of solid and liquid samples in the soft X-ray region for studying the complex electronic configuration of (bio)chemical systems. The uniqueness of the apparatus is its high flexibility combined with optimal energy resolution and energy range ratio. The apparatus enables investigation of chemical analyses, which reflects the chemical imprints. The endstation is composed of a main sample chamber, a sample holder for either solid or liquid jet delivery system, and a soft X-ray grating spectrometer for 210-1250 eV with a resolving power of ∼1000. It combines for the first time liquid jet technology with a soft X-ray spectrometer based on the variable line spacing principle. This setup was commissioned at the soft X-ray beamline P04 at PETRA III of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg which is currently the most brilliant storage-ring-based X-ray radiation source in the world. The first results of liquid and solid samples show that this setup allows the detection of photons across an energy range of ∼300 eV. This covers simultaneously the emission lines of life-important elements like carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in a shot-based procedure.

Transmission zone plates as analyzers for efficient parallel 2D RIXS-mapping

“…In both images one can identify the elastic line, the electronic transitions and the vibrational modes. The results are in excellent agreement with recent measurements 17 , 39 , 40 .

Figure 3 Emission lines of acetonitrile at different excitation energies extracted from the RIXS-map shown in Fig.

…”

“…Here, we present the results from our soft X-ray RIXS spectroscopy measurements using an off-axis transmission Fresnel zone plate spectrometer setup. The experiments were performed at P04 beam line of the PETRA III synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany 38 , utilizing the ChemRIXS end station 39 . The off-axis FZP (3 mm × 3 mm) had 70 nm outermost line period (14285 lines/mm) and 7.53 mm outermost radius.…”

Highly efficient soft X-ray spectrometer based on a reflection zone plate for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering measurements

“…The measurements utilizing VLS and RZP optics have been performed at the soft X-ray beamline P04 at the synchrotron facility PETRA III at DESY Hamburg, Germany with the ChemRIXS endstation [37,38]. Both spectrometers have been installed perpendicularly to the incoming beam, see Fig.…”

Development of Ultrafast X-ray Free Electron Laser Tools in (Bio)Chemical Research

“…The current examples emphasize, however, that the real world, functional materials, pharmaceuticals, catalysts or energy converting materials are not always crystalline and far from being periodically ideally arranged as it could look like when performing model type of investigations. If the intrinsic spatial resolution of the system does not allow for such detailed investigations, a combination of ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy and ultrafast X-ray diffraction or scattering as the "local to global approach" deliver configuration and charge information of the molecules studied [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]. This approach will be described in the following chapter.…”

“…Starting from this introduction as a comprehensive summary of the basic principles, in the following, various FEL methods developed so far will be summarised, including the concept of filming chemical reactions in real time utilizing ultrafast high-flux X-ray sources [11][12][13][14][15][16], X-ray Diffraction and Crystallography for Condensed State Chemistry Studies-Crystallography with Ultrahigh Temporal and Ultrahigh Spatial Resolution [14, and Applications in organic electronics and energy research [14,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59]; from From Local to Global: Ultrafast Multidimensional Soft X-ray Spectroscopy and Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction Shake Their Hands [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] and Applications in Bimolecular Reaction Studies and Photocatalysis [77][78][79][80] to Applications in Unimolecular Liquid Phase Reaction Dynamics [81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88]…”