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PHELIX beamline is ready to research
Synchrotron light has finally been observed for the first time on a sample at the end station of the experimental beamline PHELIX. This success is the crowning achievement of three years of hard work designing, constructing, fitting, and tuning its components to the synchrotron beam.
The installation of this new beamline began in mid-2018. In March of 2020, the final elements were delivered. Then on 18th September 2020, the scientific supervisors of beamline, Dr Magdalena Szczepanik and Tomasz Sobol, announced readiness for test experiments using the synchrotron beam.
The first results testing the capabilities with the active beam of the analyser at the the PHELIX end station were performed using the sample of gold in the presence of a specialist from the SPECS company, Dr Robert Reichelt. As a result of testing this calibration material , among others, the XPS Au4f spectrum was acquired (see the photo). Additionally, an angle – resolved and spin-resolved measurements were performed.
During the latest open call for the beamtime the applications on the PHELIX beamline where included for the first time. This line will use soft X-ray radiation. The end-station will enable a wide range of spectroscopic and absorption researches, characterised by different surface sensitivity. Besides acquiring standard, high-resolution spectra, it will allow e.g. for the mapping of band structure in three dimensions and for the detection of spin in three dimensions.
Users will thus be able to conduct research on new materials, thin films, and multi-layer systems, catalysers and biomaterials, as well as research on solids, on spin-polarised surface states, and on chemical reactions taking place on the surface.
More information about applications can be found here.
Modification date 09/04/2022
- Agnieszka Cudek
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