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Beamline Development (update 24/02/2023)

  • Updating operations software from Debian8 to Debian9 (Jan. 2019)
  • 2 circle diffractometer with double sided laser heating for single crystal diffraction is now available for general users (Feb. 2019)DESY
  • dDAC setup with fast GaAs Lambda detectors is now available to general users (March 2019)New submicron focus (0.8 x 0.8 micron @ 25.6 keV) is now available to users of the general purpose experiment (July 2019)
  • Phase plates for improved CRL focusing on the GP experiment has been installed in 2020 and is now available to users
  • Sub-micron sample stack for the GP experiment (funded by the Verbundforschungs BMBF project, PI: N. Dubrovinskaya) has been installed in 2020 and is now available to users
  • Second vacuum chamber for 4pin resistive pin DAC has been commissioned in 2020 and is now available to users
  • New scaffolding for the beamstop/diode setup at the GP experiment has been installed and commissioned
  • New light in coupling on the LH experiment has been installed in 2020 and is available to users
  • In 2020/2021: the observation system of the LH was updated in an effort to stabalized the system
  • In 2021-A: pinhole x on the GP was installed in order to get the pinhole closer to the DAC
  • In 2021-A: new GE pressure controllers were installed on both experimental setups. 2 channels at each setup are now available to the users
  • In 2021-A: new glove box with dedicated microscope was installed in preparation lab (L017)
  • 2021 July: New cooling block for DAC at the LH setup have been commisioned
  • 2022-A: Second GE pressure controller installed
  • 2022-A: Cryo-Loading of Ar and NH3 is now possoble
  • 2022-A: New air baring rotation on the LH sample stack improves signifcantly ability to collect single crystal diffraction data
  • 2022-B: Laser drilling machine is out of order because of lack of cavity gas
  • 2022-B: 4K cryostat was finally succesfully commisioned => powder & single crystal is working
  • 2022-B: Off line laser heating system is back online and can be used by general users (prefentially by GP users)
  • 2022-Dec.: Methane gas loading is avialbe to general users
  • 2023-Jan.: New SymDAC and BX90 DACs have arrived and are avialble
  • 2023-Jan-Feb.: Switch to Debian 11 completed along with computer hardware upgrade and new installment of beamline control and scan tracker
  • 2023-Feb.: New 2.3 MPix GaAs Lambda detectors are commisioned and can operate at 24 kHz in 1 bit mode.
  • 2023-Feb.: New x-ray diffraction and imaging setup has been installed
  • 2023-A: Due to shortage of liq. He supply, all cryostat experiments are cancled
  • 2023-A: Due to shortage of Ne, only He gas loading is aviable to general users

 

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