Beam Lines by Number

Station Type Techniques Energy Range Staff Contacts BL Phone
BL1-5 X-Ray
  • Materials small-angle x-ray scattering
  • Materials wide-angle x-ray scattering
 8000-17000 eV
  • Sarah Hesse
  • Olga Kraynis
 (650) 926-5215
BL2-1 X-Ray
  • Powder diffraction
  • Thin film diffraction
  • X-ray reflectivity
 6000 - 17000 eV
  • Kevin Stone
  • Charles Troxel Jr
  • Chris Crain
 (650) 926-5221
BL2-2 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • White beam techniques
 4500-37000 eV
  • Erik Nelson
  • Matthew Latimer
(650) 926-5222
BL2-3 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy imaging
 4900-23000 eV
  • Sam Webb
(650) 926-5223
BL4-1 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
 5000 -38000 eV
  • Ryan Davis
  • Matthew Latimer
  • Erik Nelson
 (650) 926-5241
BL4-2 X-Ray
  • Biological small/wide-angle x-ray scattering
  • Biological time-resolved small-angle x-ray scattering
  • Biological low-angle diffraction (lipids, membranes)
 6000-17000 eV
  • Thomas Weiss
  • Tsutomu Matsui
  • Ping Liu
  • Ivan Rajkovic
(650) 926-5242
BL4-3 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
 2400-10000 eV
  • Matthew Latimer
  • Erik Nelson
 (650) 926-5241
BL5-2 VUV
  • Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Ultra-high-resolution Micro-focused ARPES
 18-200 eV
  • Makoto Hashimoto
  • Donghui Lu
  • Chun Lin
  • Josh Zhou
 (650) 926-5252
BL5-4 VUV
  • Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
  • High resolution angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
 7-40 eV
  • Makoto Hashimoto
  • Donghui Lu
  • Chun Lin
  • Josh Zhou
 (650) 926-5254
BL6-2a X-Ray
  • Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS)
  • Tender x-ray emission spectroscopy
  • HERFD-XAS imaging
 2400-6000 eV
  • Doug Van Campen
  • Dimosthenis Sokaras
  • Thomas Kroll
 (650) 926-5262
BL6-2b X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy imaging
  • HERFD-XAS imaging
  • Microscale computed tomography
 4000-18200 eV
  • Doug Van Campen
  • Sam Webb
  • Johanna Nelson Weker
 (650) 926-5262
BL6-2c X-Ray
  • Transmission x-ray tomography
  • Transmission x-ray spectro-microscopy
 5000-13000 eV
  • Doug Van Campen
  • Molleigh B. Preefer
  • Nicholas Strange
(650) 926-5263
BL7-1 MC
  • Macromolecular crystallography
  • Single wavelength anomalous diffraction
 7100-12700 eV
  • Lisa Dunn
  • Aina Cohen
  • Michael Soltis
 Beamline Phone: (650) 926-5271
BL7-2 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy imaging
  • Large format x-ray spectroscopy imaging
 5000-16200 eV
  • Sam Webb
(650) 926-5272
BL7-3 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
 5500-40000 eV
  • Matthew Latimer
  • Erik Nelson
  • Ritimukta Sarangi
  • Leah Kelley
 (650) 926-5273
BL8-2 VUV
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • X-ray photoemission spectroscopy
 70-1300 eV
  • Dennis Nordlund
  • Daniel Santos
 (650) 926-5282
BL9-2 MC
  • Macromolecular crystallography
  • Multi wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD/SAD)
  • Single crystal UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy
 6000-14000 eV
  • Aina Cohen
  • Michael Soltis
 Beamline Phone: (650) 926-5292
BL9-3 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
 5500-30000 eV
  • Matthew Latimer
  • Ritimukta Sarangi
  • Erik Nelson
  • Leah Kelley
 (650) 926-5293
BL10-2a X-Ray
  • Powder diffraction
  • Wide-angle x-ray scattering
  • Grazing incidence pair distribution function
 4500 - 45000 eV
  • Christopher J. Tassone
  • Ross Arthur
  • Olga Kraynis
 (650) 926-5102
BL10-2b X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
 5000 - 22700 eV
  • Simon Bare
  • Adam Hoffman
 (650) 926-5102
BL11-2 X-Ray
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • Grazing incidence x-ray absorption spectroscopy
 5500-37000 eV, 5500-22000 eV (Focused)
  • Ryan Davis
  • Matthew Latimer
(650) 926-8650
BL11-3 X-Ray
  • Wide angle x-ray scattering
  • Thin film diffraction
 12700 eV
  • Partha Paul
  • Sarah Hesse
  • Nicholas Strange
  • Molleigh B. Preefer
 (650) 926-8656
BL12-1 MC
  • Macromolecular crystallography
  • Microfocus macromolecular crystallography
  • Multi wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD/SAD)
  • Pink beam serial crystallography (fixed-target; liquid/crystal injectors)
 6200–18000 eV
  • Aina Cohen
  • Michael Soltis
 Beam Line Phone: (650) 926-2012
BL12-2 MC
  • Macromolecular crystallography
  • Microfocus macromolecular crystallography
  • Multi wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD/SAD)
 6690-17000 eV
  • Aina Cohen
  • Michael Soltis
 Beamline Phone: (650) 926-5212
BL13-2 VUV
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • X-ray emission spectroscopy
  • Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS)
 180-1450 eV
  • Hirohito Ogasawara
  • Sang-Jun Lee
 (650) 926-5132
BL13-3 VUV
  • Resonant soft x-ray scattering
  • X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
  • Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS)
  • Resonant x-ray magnetic reflectivity (RXMR)
 250-1800 eV
  • Jun-Sik Lee
  • Cheng-Tai Kuo
(650) 926-5132
BL14-1 MC
  • Macromolecular crystallography
  • Multi wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD/SAD)
 6000-13000 eV
  • Aina Cohen
  • Michael Soltis
 Beamline Phone: (650) 926-5241
BL14-3a X-Ray
  • Tender x-ray absorption spectroscopy
 2100-5000 eV (Focused)
  • Matthew Latimer
  • Erik Nelson
 (650) 926-5143
BL14-3b X-Ray
  • Tender x-ray absorption spectroscopy
 2100-5000 eV
  • Sam Webb
(650) 926-5143
BL15-2 X-Ray
  • X-ray emission spectroscopy
  • Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS)
  • X-ray Raman spectroscopy
  • Laser pump/x-ray probe time-resolved spectroscopy
  • High-energy resolution fluorescence detected (HERFD) XAS
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
 4800-24000 eV
  • Dean Skoien
  • Thomas Kroll
  • Marco Reinhard
  • Dimosthenis Sokaras
 (650) 926-5115
BL16-1 X-Ray 2.1-37 keV (650) 926-
BL16-2 VUV
  • X-ray metrology
 50–2300 eV
  • Wayne Stolte
  • Matt Strader
 (650) 926-5162
BL17-2 X-Ray
  • X-ray diffraction
  • Wide angle x-ray scattering
 4000- 22000 eV
  • Ross Arthur
  • Kevin Stone
  • Vivek Thampy
 (650) 926-5172