X-ray absorption Spectroscopy Imaging

Beam line 14-3b, located on the downstream table in the BL14-3 hutch, is a bending magnet side station dedicated to x-ray imaging and micro x-ray absorption spectroscopy of biological, biomedical, materials, and geological samples. Most often used for data collection at the S K edge, BL14-3 is the only SSRL beam line capable of XAS at the P K edge. During imaging mode, a SIGRAY axially symmetric mirror system is used to achieve the microfocus with a beam size of ~ 5 x 5 microns, or sub-micron sizes.

After many years of service, the scattering capability is planned to be removed from bamline 7-2 after the first cycle of 2019 (March 2020). All of the wonderful capabilities our users have appreciated will be available at the new undulator scattering beamline BL 17-2 later in 2020.

Beam line 6-2b is a wiggler end-station dedicated to High Resolution Hard X-ray Spectroscopy. The end station combines three multicrystal Johann spectrometers that enable X-ray Emission Spectroscopy (XES), Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS), High-Energy Resolution Fluorescence Detected X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (HERFD-XAS) and X-ray Raman Spectroscopy (XRS) techniques.