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University of California at Santa Barbara
Materials Research Laboratory: an NSF MRSEC
X-ray Facility
Facility Primary Contact:
Youli Li
Instrument Technical Primary Contact:
Youli Li
More details about this Instrument
Intermediate Small Angle Diffractometer (2-Circle)
Instrument types
X-ray Diffraction
Features
X-ray source: Rigaku UltraX18 rotating anode (Cu anode, wavelength = 1.54 Å)
Monochromator:Osmic Confocal multilayer mirror
Beam size at sample position: ~0.8 mm x 0.8 mm
Detector: Mar180 (18 cm diameter)image plate detector
Optics: 2 sets of motorized Huber slits with newly developed scatterless hybrid slit blades
Flight paths: evacuated both on the incident and diffracted sides
Goniometer: large open Huber 2-circle
Sample stage: motorized X-Y-Z-THETA for transmissiona and grazing-incidence SAXS
Automated sample changing: up to 14 x-ray capillaries with full x-y-z positioning for each sample
Filter inserter: 3 filters and 1 shutter
Flux: ~ 10
9
photons/second
Typical range of lengthscale probed: 10 Å – 200 Å
Speciment-to-detector distance: typically 750 mm
Computer:Linux PC
Software for data collection:
SPEC
Software for data processing: MARVIP and
FIT2D
In-situ GI-SAXS data of an ordered sol-gel grown non-silicate oxide film (Boettcher 2007)
SAXS data of a mesostructured silica film with a bicontinuous cubic structure (Hayward 2004)
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