Indus-2 beamlines

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BL-01| XAS, XMCD

The beamline provides x-ray absorption spectroscopy facilities in the soft x-ray region. This technique is mainly used to study the chemical envi.....

  • Energy range:0.1 keV to 1.2 keV 
  • Experimental Facilities: XAS, XMCD
  • Applications: Chemical environment of elements, mainly low atomic number elements (e.g., B, C, N, O) and L or M edges of some transition metals.
AIPES
BL-02|Engineering applications

This beamline can be used for determination of the locked stress in bulk samples, thin films welded joints, industrial components etc. using x-ra.....

  • Energy range: 5 to 25 keV (monochromatic beam) 5-40 keV (white beam)
  • Experimental Facilities: ADXRD, EDXRD, XRR
  • Applications: Stress analyses in small and industrial components (upto 500 mm length), thinfilms.
AIPES
BL-03|Soft x-ray reflectivity

The beamline can be used for x-ray reflectivity, fluorescence, absorption and transmission measurements in the soft x-ray region, for optical and.....

  • Energy range: 0.1 keV to 1.5 keV
  • Experimental Facilities: Soft x-ray reflectivity, XAS, and Soft x-ray fluorescence
  • Applications: X-ray reflectivity of low Z elements (e.g., B, C, Si, SiO2 etc)). Testing of x-ray mirrors and detectors
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BL-04| Imaging

This beamline can be used for a) x-ray phase contrast imaging and 3D x-ray micro-tomographic imaging: visualization of micro-structural features .....

  • Energy range: 8 keV to 35 keV
  • Experimental Facilities: X-ray phase contrast imaging and 3D X-ray micro-tomographic imaging.
  • Applications: Visualization of micro-structural features and density mapping in engineering soft materials and bio-medical tissues/plants.
AIPES
BL-05|AMOS

The Atomic Molecular and Optical Sciences (AMOS) beamline can be used for investigating the electronic structure as well as dynamics of molecules.....

  • Energy range: 6 eV to 800 eV
  • Experimental Facilities: XAS setup and Gas cell for photo absorption studies
  • Applications: Atmospheric science, astro-chemistry, advanced material research


AIPES
BL-07|X-ray Lithography

The beamline can be used for fabrication of microstructures using the x-ray lithography process. X-ray mask fabrication facilities up to a later.....

  • Energy range: 1.5 to 20 keV, Pink beam
  • Experimental Facilities: X-ray Scanner
  • Applications: Fabrication of refractive structures, MEMS based devices, Development of new resist materials, Irradiation of biological samples, waste water samples, seeds and material science samples.
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BL-08| Dispersive Extended x-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS)

This beamline is designed to record complete EXAFS spectra in fraction of a minute, and therefore useful for time resolved measurements such as p.....

  • Energy range: 5 to 20 keV, white beam
  • Experimental Facilities: Dispersive XAFS
  • Applications: Time resolved measurements, e.g. progress of a chemical reaction.



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BL-09| Scanning EXAFS

Scanning EXAFS beamline is designed for experiments requiring high resolution and/or fluorescence mode of measurements. EXAFS spectra can be reco.....

  • Energy range: 4 to 25 keV
  • Experimental Facilities: XANES/EXAFS in transmission and fluorescence geometry.
  • Applications: Identification of oxidation state, local environment (co-ordination number and type of atoms) for solid, liquid, thin films etc.


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BL-10| Angle Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARPES)

Angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) beamline can be used to study the occupied electron density of states, and the mapping of valen.....

  • Energy range: 30 eV – 1000 eV
  • Experimental Facilities: ARPES, Resonant Photoemission (RPES), Synchrotron XPS
  • Applications: Density of states, band structure and Fermi surface mapping, analyses of chemical state of elements, band alignment at heterojunction.
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BL-11| Extreme conditions x-ray diffraction beamline

This beamline can be used to carry out x-ray diffraction measurements at high temperature (up to 1000oC) and high pressures. Powder diffraction m.....

  • Energy range: 10 to 30 keV,white beam
  • Experimental Facilities: EDXRD, ADXRD, High pressure XRD
  • Applications:Behavior of materials in extreme conditions.

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BL-12| Angle dispersive x-ray diffraction beamline

This beamline is designed for carrying out x-ray diffraction measurements on powder samples, thin films, epitaxial layers and single crystals. In.....

  • Energy range: 5 keV to 25 keV
  • Experimental Facilities: ADXRD at low temperature, high temperature and high pressure
  • Applications: Materials studies, reciprocal space mapping, thin films and epitaxial layers
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BL-13| Grazing incidence x-ray scattering

Beamline can be used for high-precision grazing incidence X-ray scattering investigations of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, single crystals an.....

  • Energy range: 5 keV to 20 keV 
  • Experimental Facilities: GIXS, GIXRD, XRR, RSM, SCXRD, ADXRD
  • Applications: Thin films, multilayers, single crystals, powder samples

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BL-14| Hard x-ray Photo-Electron Spectroscopy

The beamline can be used to study the elemental composition and chemical state of elements in near surface region of solids. Synchrotron based hi.....

  • Energy range: 2 to 15 keV 
  • Experimental Facilities: XPS setup, 15 keV analyzer, UV source, e-flood gun, Ar-ion sputtering
  • Applications: Analyses of chemical state of elements, materials research, relatively deeper information (up to 30 nm)
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BL-16| X-ray fluorescence microprobe

The beamline can be used to study materials in solids, liquid and thin films using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy enabling quantitative el.....

  • Energy range: 5 to 20 keV 
  • Experimental Facilities: XRF, TXRF, micro-XRF setup, XRR, GIXRF, 2D-Elemental mapping
  • Applications: To identify elemental composition of materials and detect ppm level of impurities, analysis of thin films and nanoparticles.

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BL-18| Small and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering(SWAXS)

This beamline is useful to probe the mesoscopic structures in the range of ~2 nm to 150 nm (small angle scattering mode) in nano-structured mater.....

  • Energy range: 5 to 20 keV
  • Experimental Facilities:SAXS/WAXS, scanning & time resolved SAXS, temperature, tensile and magnetic stage
  • Applications: To probe the nanoscale structures in soft matter, biology, polymer, nanomaterials porous materials, alloys etc.
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BL-20| XMCD

The X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) beamline is used to determine element specific magnetic properties of materials as well as individua.....

  • Energy range: 300 eV to 1000 eV (circular) 300 eV to 2000 eV (Plane polarization)
  • Experimental Facilities:TEY setup with 1.4 T field and 25 K to room temperature
  • Applications: To study element specific magnetic properties of materials
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BL-21| Protein crystallography

This beamline is useful to determine the structures of proteins and other macromolecules which forms single crystals of larger unit cell paramete.....

  • Energy range: 5 to 20 keV
  • Experimental Facilities:Single crystal diffraction, SAD, MAD
  • Applications: To determine the structure of proteins, organic molecules.