European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
BM20 - The Rossendorf Beamline

The Rossendorf Beamline @ ESRF is a hard X-ray beamline dedicated to actinide research. Four experimental stations in an alpha-lab environment allow to perform X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies as well as scattering techniques, including bulk-sensitive XAFS, XES, RIXS, powder and single crystal XRD, as well as surface-sensitive RAXR and CTR. Np, Pu, Am, Cm and Cf can be handled in the mg-range up to a total activity of 185 MBq.

Although dedicated to fundamental and applied actinide research, The Rossendorf Beamline is also open to research  on stable elements, including chemistry, catalysis,and materials science. Due to its very low detection limits for XAFS and XES, it is also well suited for environmental studies at low concentrations (a few ppm).

The Rossendorf Beamline has been built 1996-1998 by the former Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf which became (HZDR) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The beamline is operated since then by the HZDR as a so-called CRG beamline (Collaborative Research Group). Two-third of beamtime is used for in-house research, while one third is provided for experiments selected by the scientific advisory committee of the ESRF.

Beamline Energy Range
3000 - 35000 [eV]
Max Flux On Sample
1 * 1012 [ph/s] @ 18000 [eV]
Spot Size On Sample Hor
21 - 10000 [um]
Spot Size On Sample Vert
69 - 2000 [um]
Photon Sources

Short bending magnet 0.85 T

Type
Super Bending Magnet
Available Polarization
Linear horizontal
Monochromators

FMB-Oxford DCM/DML

Energy Range
3 - 35 [eV]
Type
LN2-cooled, fixed-exit, double-crystal, double multilayer monochromator
Crystals: Si(111), Si(111)30deg, Si(311)
Multilayers: 8 and 13 keV
In vacuum exchange of all five modes
Pre-focusing Mirror Type
1.4-m long, water-cooled silicon, cylindrically bent, Pt, Si and Rh stripes
Refocusing Mirror Type
1.3-m long double toroidal mirror (Rh and Pt coating), focusing to center of RCH-2, and (horizontally unfocussed) flat Si stripe
Other Optics

double torroid focussing mirror (DTFM)

Description
double toroid with Rh and Pt coatings
focusing to center of RCH-2

vertically collimating mirror (VCM)

Description
1.4 m long, water-cooled, silicon with Rh and Pt reflecting stripes
Endstations or Setup

6-circle goniometer

Detectors Available
Pilatus 100k

Pilatus 3X 2M detector stage

Detectors Available
Pilatus3 X 2M

Sample Environment

XAFS station

Techniques usage

Absorption / EXAFS
bulk XAFS in transmission and fluorescence mode
automated sample exchanger for RT and crygenic (closed-cycle He cryostat) conditions

XES

Spectrometer
Johann-type 5-crystal-analyzer with adjustable 0.5 and 1.0 m radius (Rowland circle)
crystal sets covering the energy range 3 to 20 keV for both radii
Detectors

18 discrete-element Ge detector with CMOS preamps (Mirion)

Passive or Active (Electronics)
Active

Detection

Detected Particle
Electron

7 discrete-element Si-DRIFFT detector with CMOS preamps (Mirion)

Passive or Active (Electronics)
Active

Detection

Detected Particle
Electron

Pilatus 100k

Passive or Active (Electronics)
Active

Detection

Detected Particle
Electron

Pilatus3 X 2M

Passive or Active (Electronics)
Active

Detection

Detected Particle
Electron
contacts
Andreas SCHEINOST
Techniques
Absorption
  • EXAFS
  • NEXAFS
  • Time-resolved studies
Diffraction
  • Crystallography
  • Powder diffraction
  • Surface diffraction
  • Time-resolved studies
Emission or Reflection
  • Reflectrometry
  • X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
Scattering
  • Inelastic scattering
Disciplines
Chemistry
  • Other - Chemistry
Earth Sciences & Environment
  • Marine science/Oceanography
  • Other - Earth Sciences & Environment
  • Water sciences/Hydrology
Energy
  • Sustainable energy systems
Engineering & Technology
  • Other - Engineering & Technology
Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Agriculture & Fisheries
  • Medicine
  • Molecular and cellular biology
  • Other - Life Sciences & Biotech
Material Sciences
  • Knowledge based multifunctional materials
  • Other - Material Sciences
Physics
  • Astronomy/Astrophysics/Astroparticles
  • Atomic & molecular physics
  • Other - Physics
Address
The Rossendorf Beamline at ESRF
BM20/Secteur 21
71 Avenue des Martyrs
38043 Grenoble, France
control/Data analysis
Control Software Type
  • SPEC in transition to BLISS
Data Output Type
  • SPEC
Data Output Format
  • SPEC, in addition SSRL format for XAFS