Multipurpose soft-material SAXS WAXS GISAXS beamline at SPring-8

Scientific and engineering research on soft materials requires precise structural analysis to understand their hierarchical and fluctuating nature. A new beamline, the BL03XU frontier soft-material beamline, that is dedicated to scattering experiments on soft materials was recently installed at the...

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Published in:	Polymer journal Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 471 - 477
Main Authors:	Masunaga, Hiroyasu, Ogawa, Hiroki, Takano, Takumi, Sasaki, Sono, Goto, Shunji, Tanaka, Takashi, Seike, Takamitsu, Takahashi, Sunao, Takeshita, Kunikazu, Nariyama, Nobuteru, Ohashi, Haruhiko, Ohata, Toru, Furukawa, Yukito, Matsushita, Tomohiro, Ishizawa, Yasuhide, Yagi, Naoto, Takata, Masaki, Kitamura, Hideo, Sakurai, Kazuo, Tashiro, Kohji, Takahara, Atsushi, Amamiya, Yoshiyuki, Horie, Kazuyuki, Takenaka, Mikihito, Kanaya, Toshiji, Jinnai, Hiroshi, Okuda, Hiroshi, Akiba, Isamu, Takahashi, Isao, Yamamoto, Katsuhiro, Hikosaka, Masamichi, Sakurai, Shinichi, Shinohara, Yuya, Okada, Akihiko, Sugihara, Yasunori
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01-05-2011 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	639/301/930 639/638/298/923/1028 Biomaterials Bioorganic Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry and Materials Science Chemistry/Food Science Design engineering Engineering research Exact sciences and technology Flux Instruments, apparatus, components and techniques common to several branches of physics and astronomy original-article Photons Physics Polymer Sciences SAXS Scattering Surfaces and Interfaces Synchrotron radiation instrumentation Synchrotrons Thin Films Transmission X- and γ-ray instruments and techniques scattering synchrotron FSBL SPring-8 Temperature dependence X-ray scattering Radiation detectors Small angle scattering Inverters X-ray imaging Synchrotron radiation
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Summary:	Scientific and engineering research on soft materials requires precise structural analysis to understand their hierarchical and fluctuating nature. A new beamline, the BL03XU frontier soft-material beamline, that is dedicated to scattering experiments on soft materials was recently installed at the third-generation synchrotron facility, SPring-8, in Japan. The BL03XU uses an in-vacuum undulator, and the photon flux of the obtained X-ray can reach 10 13 photons sec −1 , with an energy resolution of Δ E / E ≈2 × 10 −4 at 12.4 keV. The BL03XU has two experimental hutches: a front one that is used for grazing-incidence scattering experiments and a second one for transmitting scattering experiments, which enables simultaneous small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering. The present paper introduces details about the instrument and some of the first scattering data measured at BL03XU, which reveals its cutting-edge design and high level of performance. A new beamline called the frontier soft-material beamline at BL03XU for soft materials was recently installed at SPring-8, using an in-vacuum undulator. The photon flux can reach 10 13 photons sec −1 and the energy resolution is about 10 −4 at an energy of 12.4 keV. The present paper introduces details on the instrumental and some of the first scattering data measured at BL03XU, revealing its cutting-edge design and high performance.
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ISSN:	0032-3896 1349-0540
DOI:	10.1038/pj.2011.18