Status of the crystallography beamlines at Elettra

Lausi, A and Polentarutti, M and Onesti, S and Plaisier, JR and Busetto, E and Bais, G and Barba, L and Cassetta, A and Campi, G and Lamba, D and Pifferi, A and Mande, SC and Sarma, DD and Sharma, SM and Paolucci, G (2015) Status of the crystallography beamlines at Elettra. In: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL PLUS, 130 (3).

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Abstract

Elettra is one of the first 3rd-generation storage rings, recently upgraded to routinely operate in top-up mode at both 2.0 and 2.4 GeV. The facility hosts four dedicated beamlines for crystallography, two open to the users and two under construction, and expected to be ready for public use in 2015. In service since 1994, XRD1 is a general-purpose diffraction beamline. The light source for this wide (4-21 keV) energy range beamline is a permanent magnet wiggler. XRD1 covers experiments ranging from grazing incidence X-ray diffraction to macromolecular crystallography, from industrial applications of powder diffraction to X-ray phasing with long wavelengths. The bending magnet powder diffraction beamline MCX has been open to users since 2009, with a focus on microstructural investigations and studies under non-ambient conditions. A superconducting wiggler delivers a high photon flux to a new fully automated beamline dedicated to macromolecular crystallography and to a branch beamline hosting a high-pressure powder X-ray diffraction station (both currently under construction). Users of the latter experimental station will have access to a specialized sample preparation laboratory, shared with the SISSI infrared beamline. A high throughput crystallization platform equipped with an imaging system for the remote viewing, evaluation and scoring of the macromolecular crystallization experiments has also been established and is open to the user community.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL PLUS
Publisher:	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2015 07:30
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2015 07:30
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/51659

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