ID15A at the ESRF – a beamline for high speed operando X-ray diffraction, diffraction tomography and total scattering

Abstract

ID15A is a newly refurbished beamline at the ESRF devoted to operando and time‐resolved diffraction and imaging, total scattering and diffraction computed tomography. The beamline is optimized for rapid alternation between the different techniques during a single operando experiment in order to collect complementary data on working systems. The high available energy (up to 120 keV) means that even bulky and highly absorbing systems may be studied. The beamline is equipped with optimized focusing optics and a photon‐counting CdTe pixel detector, allowing for both unprecedented data quality at high energy and for very rapid triggered experiments. A large choice of imaging detectors and ancillary probes and sample environments is also available.

The missing pieces of the PuO2nanoparticle puzzle

“…High energy X-ray scattering data were collected at room temperature at the ID15A beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble). 23 An incident energy of 120 000 eV was selected in order to be below the Pu K-edge at 121 791 eV and to minimize absorption. The K-edge XANES spectrum was measured to verify the incident energy ( Fig.…”

The Application of HEXS and HERFD XANES for Accurate Structural Characterisation of Actinide Nanomaterials: The Case of ThO2

“…We collected the HEXS data for samples 1 and 2 at the ID15A [66] beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble). The data were collected at room temperature, the incident energy was set to 120 keV and we measured up to 30 Å −1 using a Dectris CdTe 2M pixel detector.…”

Effects of Nanodomains on Local and Long-Range Phase Transitions in Perovskite-Type Eu0.8Ca0.2TiO3–δ

“…The Rietveld refinements were carried out with the FullProf.2k software package (5.30, 2012, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France) [30] and using pseudo-Voigt functions to describe the profile. The instrument's cryostat was used to collect data between 100 and 423 K, and a hot air blower (Cyberstar, Echirolles, France) was used in the temperature range 373 ≤ T ≤ 973 K. For PDF analysis, the same sample as above was measured on ID15A [31] of ESRF at a wavelength λ of 0.1240(3) Å, using a cryostat at 100 ≤ T ≤ 300 K and a hot air blower at 373 ≤ T ≤ 973 K. Please note that the recorded temperature, when using the hot air blower, was about 10% higher than the actual temperature. Two-dimensional diffraction images were azimuthally integrated using the Python libraries FabIO and pyFAI [32,33].…”