A dedicated powder diffraction beamline at the advanced photon source: commissioning and early operational results

Jun Wang; Brian H Toby; Peter L Lee; Lynn Ribaud; Sytle M Antao; Charles Kurtz; Mohan Ramanathan; Robert B Von Dreele; Mark A Beno

doi:10.1063/1.2969260

A dedicated powder diffraction beamline at the advanced photon source: commissioning and early operational results

Rev Sci Instrum. 2008 Aug;79(8):085105. doi: 10.1063/1.2969260.

Authors

Jun Wang¹, Brian H Toby, Peter L Lee, Lynn Ribaud, Sytle M Antao, Charles Kurtz, Mohan Ramanathan, Robert B Von Dreele, Mark A Beno

Affiliation

¹ Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA. junwang@bnl.gov

PMID: 19044378
DOI: 10.1063/1.2969260

Abstract

A new dedicated high-resolution high-throughput powder diffraction beamline has been built, fully commissioned, and opened to general users at the Advanced Photon Source. The optical design and commissioning results are presented. Beamline performance was examined using a mixture of the NIST Si and Al(2)O(3) standard reference materials, as well as the LaB6 line-shape standard. Instrumental resolution as high as 1.7 x 10(-4) (DeltaQQ) was observed.