Catherine Heyman

• CATHERINE HEYMAN SASU GRENOBLE

The design and first results of a large-solid-angle X-ray emission spectrometer that is optimized for energies between 1.5 keV and 5.5 keV are presented. The spectrometer is based on an array of 11 cylindrically bent Johansson crystal analyzers arranged in a non-dispersive Rowland circle geometry. The smallest achievable energy bandwidth is smaller...

We describe the design and show first results of a large solid angle x-ray emission spectrometer that is optimised for energies between 1.5 keV and 5.5 keV. The spectrometer is based on an array of eleven cylindrically bent Johansson crystal analysers arranged in a point-to-point Rowland circle geometry. The smallest achievable energy bandwidth is...

A novel set-up has been designed and used for synchrotron radiation X-ray high-resolution powder diffraction (SR-HRPD) in transmission geometry (spinning capillary) for in situ solid–gas reactions and processes in an isobaric and isothermal environment. The pressure and temperature of the sample are controlled from 10⁻³ to 1000 mbar and from 80 to...

The multipurpose portable ultra-high-vacuum-compatible chamber described in detail in this article has been designed to carry out grazing-incidence X-ray scattering techniques on the BM25-SpLine CRG beamline at the ESRF. The chamber has a cylindrical form, built on a 360° beryllium double-ended conflate flange (CF) nipple. The main advantage of thi...

The CRG BM25-SpLine Beamline is located at bending magnet 25 of the ESRF. The beamline, which is split in two branches, is devoted to XAS, XRD and HAXPES. The photon energy covered by both branches range between 5 and 45 keV. The beamline double crystal monochromator (DCM) uses two parallel Si(111) crystals in (+, −) configuration to produce a mono...

A portable powder-liquid high corrosion-resistant reaction cell has been designed to follow in situ reactions by X-ray powder diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy techniques in transmission mode. The cell has been conceived to be mounted on the experimental stations for diffraction and absorption of the Spanish CRG SpLine-BM25 beamline at...

A low/high temperature (60-1000K) and pressure (10−10−3x103 mbar) "baby chamber", specially adapted to the grazing-incidence X-ray scattering station, has been designed, developed and installed at the Spanish CRG BM25 SpLine beamline at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The chamber has a cylindrical form with 100 mm of diameter, built on a 3...

An on-axis-visualization stage for accurate sample alignment respect to X-ray beam has been designed and implemented at the diffraction and absorption/fluorescence stations of the BM25-SpLine synchrotron beamline at the ESRF. It is mostly intended for studies involving heterogeneous samples where the analysis is restricted to a particular area of t...

An instrument for X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) based on perfect crystal Bragg optics was recently commissioned at beam line ID26 of the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility). The spectrometer is used to record high-energy resolution fluorescence-detected X-ray absorption spectra with sub-lifetime resolution and to perform resonant and...