Intern
    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems

    SAXS/WAXS

    Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering-System

    Specifications

    X-ray source: MicroMax-007HF (Microfocus Rotating Anode X-ray generator)

    • Provider: Rigaku
    • Cu target
    • Effective focus at 6° (circle): 70 µm
    • Brilliance: 31.2 kW/mm2
    • Maximum rated power: 1200 W
    • Tube voltage output range: 20 - 50 kV
    • Tube current output range: 10 - 30 mA

    Optics: Osmic Parabolic CMF

    • Provider: Rigaku
    • Guarantee flux: 4.27E+08 photons/s
    • Kβ/Kα ratio: 1.06E-04
    • FWHM of divergence: 1.50 arc min

    Collimation system: ACM-C8-3SL01-A

    • Provider: Xenocs
    • 3 motorized stages with each 4 individually movable blades (-/+ 12.5 mm)
    • Hybrid blade design (single crystal edge on metal base)
    • Maximal opening: 20 mm
    • Accuracy: 3 µm

    Detector: TimePix

    • Provider: X-ray Imaging Europe (XIE)
    • Semiconductor sensor material: Si
    • Pixel size: 55 µm
    • Pixel matrix: 256x256
    • Energy threshold: pixel wise with 4 bits
    • Arbitrarily choosing of exposure times
    • 13 bit counter per pixel
    • 3 modes:
      - Single particle counting
      - Time over threshold
      - Arrival time

    Vacuum chambersystem:

    • Provider: Xenocs (system designed according our needs)
    • Vacuum
      - Pump: SCROLLVAC SC 5 D
      - Provider: Oerlikon Leybold
      - Discharge pressure: 5E-02 mbar
      - Speed: 5 m3
    • Dimensions:
      - Collimation Stage CS1 to CS2: 800 mm; CS2 to CS3: 500 mm
      - Sample chamber: 250 x 250 mm, 300 mm height; with vacuum inlet, lockable with gate valves
      - Detector chamber: ∅ 300 mm, length 3000 mm.
    • Axes:
      - Motorized detector stage (0 - 2690 mm)
      - Sample stage: TX (+/- 20 mm), TY (+/- 12.5 mm), RZ (+/- 180°)

    Contact person

    Location

    • Chair of X-ray Microscopy