Sector 3 : Nuclear Resonant Scattering

 
Developing a Picture of the Earth's Mantle
12.22.2015
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3-ID-B,C,D, 13-ID-C,D
Diamond Anvils Yield New Insight into the Deep Earth
09.25.2018
Nearly 1800 miles below the Earth's surface, there are large, odd structures lurking at the base of the mantle, sitting just above the core. The mantle is a thick layer of hot, mostly plastic rock tha...
3-ID-B,C,D, 13-ID-C,D, 30-ID-B,C
A New Technique for Probing Hydrogen Bonds to Develop Better Catalysts
12.18.2018
Researchers working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source employed nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy to probe the hydrogen bonds that modulate the chemical reactivity of...
3-ID-B,C,D
A Discovery Opens the Door for Novel Thermoelectric Materials
10.25.2019
A team of engineers carrying out studies at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source has discovered a crystalline material with ultralow thermal conductivity, which could lead to the d...
3-ID-B,C,D
A Rare Mineral from Rocks Found in Mollusk Teeth
06.01.2021
Northwestern University researchers have, for the first time, discovered a rare mineral hidden inside the teeth of a chiton, a large mollusk found along rocky coastlines. Before this strange surprise,...
3-ID-B,C,D, 5-BM-C, 13-ID-E
A Peculiar State of Matter in Layers of Semiconductors
01.04.2022
A Peculiar State of Matter in Layers of Semiconductors: In a study that could benefit quantum computing, researchers using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source show a superlattice...
3-ID-B,C,D
Using Pressure to Unlock Quantum Phenomena
08.22.2022
Using Pressure to Unlock Quantum Phenomena: Experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source have shown that pressure can be used to elevate the magnetic ordering temperature o...
3-ID-B,C,D, 13-BM-C, 16-ID-D
Piecing Together the Early Solar System Using Returned Samples from Asteroid Ryugu
10.31.2022
A truly globe-spanning team of scientists using several synchrotron x-ray research facilities, employed many types of analyses to characterize asteroid Ryugu, including studies at the U.S. Department ...
3-ID-B,C,D
Activating Dioxygen to Convert Hydrocarbons
02.20.2024
Converting hydrocarbon gases into more valuable forms can help fight the buildup of atmospheric carbon that causes global warming. A group of scientists using the Advanced Photon Source have demonstra...
3-ID-B,C,D, 17-BM-B
Putting Iron Oxide Under Pressure to Peer into the Deep Earth
02.22.2024
A team of investigators explored the phase diagram of iron oxide up to the pressures it would encounter at Earth’s core-mantle boundary for the first time. Their goal was to discover whether ultralo...
3-ID-B,C,D, 13-ID-C,D
 
Sector 3 Science Highlights: some publications from experiments done at APS 3-ID beamline are shown above. There is a list of 3ID science highlights.

 

Sector 3 is operated by the Inelastic X-ray Nuclear Resonant Scattering Group, which is part of the X-ray Science Division (XSD).

The beamline offers the following experimental methods:

  • Nuclear resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (NRIXS) with about 1 meV resolution
  • Nuclear forward scattering (NFS) or Synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy (SMS)
 
 
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