Soft X-ray chemical lab

Overview The Soft X-ray chemical lab is located at the R3 ring close to SoftiMAX. Equipment list Centrifuges Mixers​ pH meters Glovebox (GS MEGA SystemTechnik, Argon atmosphere, freezer, sample cooling)…

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…either using Globus, or via normal sftp. Please contact beamline staff for more information. Acknowledgements When publishing any material arising from work carried out at MAX IV, do not forget…

STM sampleholders and sample mounting

…but not adviced. The hole in the middle is for improving the efficiency of e-beam heating, however, for sensitive samples and for reducing the temperature gradient a Ta foil may…

Detector operations and support

At MAX IV, we have hybrid photon counting detectors from Dectris, XSpectrum and Quantum Detectors, some of which have been custom-made such as the XSpectrum Lambda with centre hole and…

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…translations. Sample holders Balder multi sample holders with round “windows” fitting 13 or 5 mm diameter pellets or rectangular “windows” for packing with powders or filling with liquids. All the…

Prepare samples for the Sample Exchanger

…IV. You do not need to wear gloves as long as you use tools with handles made of insulating materials, but we also provide cotton and latex gloves. Precool containers…

Beamline optics

…11th harmonic of the IVU Monochromator (HDCM) At 26 m, Si (111), double crystal monochromator, horizontally deflecting, LN2 side-cooling Energy bandwidth 2 x 10-4 ΔE/E Focusing optics Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) mirror…

Solid-Gas Endstation

…Sample requirements This endstation uses slightly custom “flag” style sample plates. These can have a hole in the plate to allow for direct heating of the sample via an infrared…

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…heating above 100°C. For preparations involving heating above 100°C, molydenum sample plates of both types are available at the beamline for general use. These plates are shared among all users;…

The dawning of new interpretation for RIXS spectra

There is consensus among physicists that strict parity selectivity is required in dipole approximation with soft X-rays in the field of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). Meaning, when photons hit…