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A New High-Flux Chemical and Materials Crystallography Station at the SRS Daresbury. 1. Design, Construction and Test Results

A new single‐crystal diffraction facility has been constructed on beamline 9 of the SRS at Daresbury Laboratory for the study of structural problems in chemistry and materials science. The station utilizes up to 3.8 mrad horizontally from the 5 T wiggler magnet which can be focused horizontally and...

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Published in:Journal of synchrotron radiation 1997-09, Vol.4 (5), p.279-286
Main Authors: Cernik, R. J., Clegg, W., Catlow, C. R. A., Bushnell-Wye, G., Flaherty, J. V., Greaves, G. N., Burrows, I., Taylor, D. J., Teat, S. J., Hamichi, M.
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Summary:A new single‐crystal diffraction facility has been constructed on beamline 9 of the SRS at Daresbury Laboratory for the study of structural problems in chemistry and materials science. The station utilizes up to 3.8 mrad horizontally from the 5 T wiggler magnet which can be focused horizontally and vertically. The horizontal focusing is provided by a choice of gallium‐cooled triangular bent Si (111) or Si (220) monochromators, giving a wavelength range from 0.3 to 1.5 Å. Focusing in the vertical plane is achieved by a cylindrically bent zerodur mirror with a 300 μm‐thick palladium coating. The station is equipped with a modified Enraf–Nonius CAD‐4 four‐circle diffractometer and a Siemens SMART CCD area‐detector system. High‐ and low‐temperature facilities are available to cover the temperature range from about 80 to 1000 K. Early results on test compounds without optimization of the beam optics demonstrate that excellent refined structures can be obtained from samples giving diffraction patterns too weak to be measured with conventional laboratory X‐ray sources, fulfilling a major objective of the project.
ISSN:1600-5775
0909-0495
1600-5775
DOI:10.1107/S090904959701008X