The Grenoble-based instrument manufacturer Xenocs SAS has been chosen by the Molecules and Materials at Interfaces Laboratory (2MILab) at the CBH School on the main campus of KTH, to supply a home-lab X-Ray beamline instrument for small angle- and wide angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS and WAXS). The Xeuss Pro HR instrument will be equipped with a microfocus copper Kα X-ray source, and the newly developed MetalJet F15 gallium Kα X-Ray source from Stockholm-based Excillum. This source delivers X-ray intensities on par with 2nd generation Synchrotron sources, strongly broadening the measurement speed and subsequent range of applications of lab-based scattering.
The instrument will be delivered with a range of accessories and options of interest to most users of the technique, particularly for bulk and surface studies in soft matter research, which is the major research focus of the school. As a part of 2MILab, the instrument will be available to any researcher who would like to use it. The school will provide necessary technical and user support. With a scientific and technical focus on grazing incidence methods, Prof Stephan Roth from the Fiber and Polymer Technology department and DESY in Germany, provides decades of beamline experience on grazing incidence applications (GISAXS and GIWAXS) configurations required for studies of thin films and surfaces.
Commissioning is planned for November of this year.
Please contact 2MILab for further information!
