| Beamline Operations |
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| Chemical and Materials Science (CMS) | |
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Primary Contact: Byeongdu Lee The CMS group operates 3 beamlines (12-BM, 12-ID) for small-angle and wide-angle scattering, grazing-incidence scattering, spectroscopy equiped with specialized reaction cells for in situ and operando experiments. The beamlines are used to primarily address problems in energy storage and catalysis. |
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| Dynamics & Structure (DYS) | |
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Primary Contact: Suresh Narayanan The DYS group operates two simultaneously operating beamlines (8-ID-E, 8-ID-I) that specialize in the study of structure, kinetics and dynamics in soft and hard condensed matter. The primary techniques supported are grazing incidence x-ray scattering (small and wide angle) and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (small and wide angle). |
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| GMCA Structural Biology Facility (MX) | |
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Primary Contact: Robert Fischetti The National Institute of General Medical Sciences and National Cancer Institute Structural Biology Facility at the Advanced Photon Source operates a national user facility for structural biology with synchrotron beamlines specializing in intense, tunable micro-beams for conventional rotation and serial crystallography. |
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| High Pressure CAT (HPC) | |
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Primary Contact: Maddury Somazulu |
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| Imaging (IMG) | |
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Primary Contact: Francesco De Carlo The IMG group designs, supports, and operates state-of-the-art x-ray instrumentation and scientific software for 2-D and 3-D full-field imaging. Development efforts focus on optimizing for speed, sensitivity, and resolution by taking full advantage of the unique properties of the APS source, such as the time structure, the high energy, and the low emittance. This allows for multi-scale imaging of real materials — in real time — and under real conditions |
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| Inelastic X-ray & Nuclear Resonant Scattering (IXN) | |
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Primary Contact: Thomas Gog The IXN group operates 3 beamlines (3-ID, 27-ID, & 30-ID) that exploit the brilliance and unique timing structure of the APS to study the dynamical properties of matter using resonant and non-resonate inelastic x-ray scattering and Mössbauer spectroscopy. |
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| Magnetic Materials (MM) | |
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Primary Contact: Daniel Haskel The MM group operates 4 beamlines at 4-ID, 6-ID, and 29-ID that focus on the study of magnetic, electronic, and structural properties of condensed matter systems using x-ray scattering and spectroscopy techniques. |
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| Materials Physics and Engineering (MPE) | |
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Primary Contact: Jonathan Almer The MPE group exploits the unique properties of high-energy x-rays at beamlines 1-ID & 6-BM for in situ bulk studies of materials under a range of temperatures, pressures, and electro-chemical conditions. A large fraction of these studies cannot be done at any other facility in the United States. |
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| Microscopy (MIC) | |
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Primary Contact: Barry Lai The MIC group carries works on the development and applications of hard x-ray microscopy. The program uses x-ray optics-based microprobes and nanoprobes to probe real space, reciprocal space, and in particular, elemental content and local chemistry, and coherent diffractive imaging-based approaches to extend achievable spatial resolution in x-ray microscopy beyond limitations set by x-ray optics. |
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| Spectroscopy (SPC) | |
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Primary Contact: Shelly Kelly The spectroscopy group enables XAFS, micro-XAFS, x-ray Raman (LERIX), x-ray emission spectroscopy, high resolution fluorescence spectroscopy, time-resolved x-ray-excited optical luminescence, confocal imaging, and micro-XRF investigations at sectors 9 and 20 of the Advanced Photon Source. 9-BM-C offers full in-situ and operando catalyst studies. |
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| Structural Biology Center (SBC) | |
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Primary Contact: Andrzej Joachimiak The SBC group operates two beamlines (19-BM-D and 19-ID-D) for macromolecular x-ray crystallography. |
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| Structural Science (SRS) | |
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Primary Contact: Uta Ruett The scientific programs of the SRS group focus on the study of the structure of materials, both on a short-range scale using PDF methods and x-ray absorption spectroscopy, and also on a longer‑ length scale using high-resolution powder diffraction and single-crystal diffuse scattering. In situ, operando or time-resolved (i.e., pump-probe) studies are major themes of the group. |
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| Surface Scattering and Microdiffraction (SSM) | |
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Primary Contact: Jon Tischler The SSM group develops and applies x-ray capabilities for determining the structure of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films. The group focuses on characterization of epitaxial films including during growth in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) chamber and using a unique white beam µ-Laue setup to determine the polycrystalline configuration of surfaces and films in functional materials. |
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| Time-Resolved Research (TRR) | |
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Primary Contact: Xiaoyi Zhang The TRR group operates beamlines 7-ID and 11-ID-D that utilize state-of-art time-resolved X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy and imaging capabilities to investigate multiple time- and length-scale dynamics of a variety of systems. Typically this is accomplished via pump-probe methods where the excitation pump is an ultrafast laser pulse. |
| Beamline Technologies |
| Beamline Controls (BC) |
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Primary Contact: Joe Sullivan The BC group develops software and electronic hardware for synchrotron radiation beamlines that serves the common needs of APS researchers, and implements software for the APS Beamlines. |
| Beamline Instrumentation (BI) |
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Primary Contact: Michael Fisher Beamline Instrumentation group provides engineering support for novel synchrotron radiation equipment. |
| Computational X-ray Science (CXS) |
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Primary Contact: Mathew Cherukara The Computational X-ray Science group supports activities in XSD through:
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| Detectors (DET) |
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Primary Contact: Antonino Miceli The detector group develops new types of detectors for synchrotron radiation research that are not available commercially. In addition, it manages the detector pool which provides novel detector systems to all APS beamlines. |
| Nanopositioning Support Lab |
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Primary Contact: Deming Shu The Nanopositioning Support Lab provides engineering and technical support to enable world-class performance of nanopositioning instruments for APS operations and research. |
| Optics (OPT) |
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Primary Contact: Lahsen Assoufid The Optics group operates and develops instruments to fabricate and characterize x-ray optical elements, such as single crystal monochromators, mirrors, multilayers, and other special substrates. |
| Scientific Software Engineering and Data Management (SDM) |
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Primary Contact: Nicholas Schwarz The Scientific Software Engineering and Data Managment group provides flexible, customer-oriented software services to the accelerator and beamlines in support of world-class photon science at the APS. These services are rendered through the application of our core competencies: embedded software, software engineering, distributed control systems, information systems, high performance computing, and graphical user interfaces. |
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