The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

Spectroscopy: Beamline 9-BM


The XSD Spectroscopy Group operates the bending magnet beamline 9-BM to serve the materials science and chemistry user communities. It provides a focused, tunable x-ray beam for XAFS and XANES experiments with special capabilities for lower energy x-rays.
Supported Techniques

X-ray absorption fine structure
Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

Sun UNIX running EPICS with VME, SPEC. PC/labview interface to EPICS.
Detectors
  • Ion chambers
  • Lytle detector
  • 4-element Vortex SDD detector on request
  • 13-element Ge solid state detector
  • electron yield detector
Additional Equipment
  • Cryostat (10-300 K) on request
  • Bruker FTIR spectrometer (concurrent DRIFTS and XAFS)
  • Automated hazardous gas handling
  • Mass spectrometer
  • Variety of in-situ cells for catalysts, liquids and batteries
  • Glove box (nitrogen, 0.1 ppm O2, 0.7 ppm water) for sample prep
Local Contacts
Name TRUDY B. BOLIN
Phone 630.252.0336
Email bolitru@aps.anl.gov
Name TIANPIN WU
Phone 630.252.1482
Email twu@aps.anl.gov
Name STEVE M. HEALD
Phone 630.252.9795
Email heald@aps.anl.gov
Beamline Specs

Source

Bending Magnet

Monochromator Type

Si(111), Si(220)

Energy Range

2.1-24 keV

Resolution (ΔE/E)

1 x 10 -4

Flux (photons/sec)

 1 x 1011 @15 keV

Beam Size (HxV)

Focused

500µm x 500µm

Unfocused

1mm x 1mm

 

02.01.2016