ALBA (synchrotron)
ALBA (meaning "Sunrise" in Catalan and in Spanish) is a 3rd generation synchrotron radiation facility located in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park in Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona, in Catalonia (Spain). It is constructed and operated by the CELLS (Consortium for the Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Laboratory) consortium, and co-financed by the regional Catalan Government and Spanish central administration Government[1][2]
After nearly ten years of planning and design work by the Spanish scientific community, the project was approved in 2002 by the Spanish and the Catalan governments. After scientific workshops and meetings with prospective users, the facility was redesigned in 2004, and in 2006 construction started. The laboratory was officially opened for experiments on 7 beamlines in March 2010.
Beamlines
BL01 - MIRAS
MIRAS[3] is devoted to Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and microscopy. FTIR is a potential tool to identify the vibrational signatures and therefore the chemical composition of materials.
The beamline provides ALBA users with a modern synchrotron-based infrared spectrometer and microscope capability covering a wavelength range from about 1 µm to ∼100 µm with a spectral region optimized initially for investigation between 2.5-14 µm.
Transmission, Reflection, Attenuated total reflection (ATR) and Grazing incidence are the most important geometries for sample analysis, and are all available at the MIRAS beamline.
BL04 - MSPD
The Materials Science and Powder Diffraction Beamline is devoted to high-resolution and high pressure powder diffraction using diamond anvil cells.
The beamline operates between 8 and 50 keV. This energy range adequately covers the desirable range for almost any powder diffraction experiment, and at the same time it is possible to perform both total scattering experiments, and high pressure diffraction, for which it is not only desirable but sometimes necessary to have high-energy sources (E>30 KeV). To accommodate the different experimental techniques, there are two experimental end stations, one devoted to high resolution powder diffraction and the second one dedicated to high pressure experiments.
See also
References
- ^ Sincrotrón ALBA. La importancia de la luz.
- ^ "ALBA | Lightsources". www.lightsources.org. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "BEAMLINE INFORMATION — en". www.cells.es. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
External links
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