Compendium of XAFS beamlines in the Americas

This compendium of XAFS beamlines is mantained by the Commission on XAFS of the IUCr as a service to the scientific community. We list beamlines on which measurements of XAFS, XMCD and related techniques, both in the soft and in the hard x-ray regions, are possible; the widest possible range of applications is considered. Both presently operating beamlines and those which are in the construction, commissioning or design phase are included.

See our list of acronyms.

The data is listed to the best of our knowledge; most of it has been obtained from facility websites and in som cases it has been checked by members of the IUCr Commission on XAFS, staff scientists or expert users. We wish to thank Santiago J. A. Figueroa (LNLS), E. Farquhar (NSLS) and S. Heald (APS) for helpful comments.

We welcome corrections and updates, which should be sent to Giuliana Aquilanti and Masao Tabuchi

ALS (Berkeley, CA, USA)
APS (Argonne, IL, USA)
CAMD (Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
CLS (Saskatoon, Canada)
LNLS (Campinas, Brazil)
NSLS (Brookhaven, NY, USA)
SRC (Stoughton, WI, USA)
SSRL (Stanford, CA, USA)

ALS

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
4.0.2	0.1 - 2	10¹³	0.1 x 0.1	XMCD, XMLD, XANES	Operational
6.3.1	0.3 - 2	10¹¹	0.05 x 0.5	XAFS, XMCD, XMLD	Operational
7.0.1	0.1 - 0.8 ---- 0.08 - 1.2	10^{8 -} 10⁹ ---- 3 x 10¹²	300 nm ------ 50 μm	Surface science, XANES and PES microscopy ---- Surface science, PES, XANES	Operational
8.0.1	0.08 - 1.25	> 10¹¹	0.03 x 0.1 mm	XANES	Operational
10.3.2	2.5 - 17	10¹⁰	5 x 5 μm	micro XANES	Operational
11.0.2	0.1 - 2 ------- 0.13 - 2	10¹² - 10¹³ -------- 10⁹	10 μm ------ 20 nm	micro-XANES, PES in non-UHV environment -------- XANES microscopy	Operational

ALS updated 11 February 2012

APS

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
2-ID-D	5 - 30	4 ×10⁹	2 μm × 2 μm	microXAFS	Operational
4-ID-C	0.5 - 3	1 x 10¹²	0.1 × 0.1	XMCD, XMLD, PES, magnetic scattering	Operational
4-ID-D	0.5 - 50	3 x 10¹³	0.1 x 0.22	XMCD, magnetic scattering	Operational
5-BM-D	4.5 - 80	5 ×10¹¹	0.5 x 30	General purpose XAFS, in polymer and materials science	Operational
7-ID-B,C,D	6 - 21	8 ×10¹²	10 μm ×10 μm	time resolved XAFS	Operational
9-BM-B,C	2.1 - 23	1 x 10¹¹	0.5 x 0.5	General purpose XAFS, in materials science and chemistry	Operational
10-ID-B	4.3- 90	10¹¹ - 10¹³	2 μm ×2 μm minimum	General purpose XAFS, dilute elements, DAFS, XAFS microscopy in materials science	Operational
10-BM-B	3 - 200		3 × 50	General purpose XAFS	Operational
11-ID-D	4 - 40	1 x 10¹²	0.5 x 1	General purpose XAFS in chemistry, materials science, geoscience and physics. DAFS, time resolved XAFS	Operational
12-BM-B	4.5 - 24	5 × 10¹⁰	1 x 1	General purpose XAFS in chemistry, materials science, geoscience and physics	Operational
13-BM-D	4.5 - 70	10⁹	0.01 x 0.03	General purpose XAFS, high pressure, geoscience	Operational
13-ID-C,D	4 - 45	10¹¹ - 10¹³	0.06 x 0.02 to 0.002 x 0.002	General purpose XAFS, high pressure, geoscience	Operational
16-BM-D	6 - 70	3 × 10⁹	5 μm ×5 μm	XAFS at high pressure	Operational
18-ID-D	3.5 - 35	2 x 10¹³	0.05 x 0.5	General purpose, microXAS in the life sciences	Operational
20-BM-B	2.7- 30	1 x 10¹¹ ^{---------------} 2 x 10⁸	0.5 x 0.2 --------------- 0.005 x 0.005	General purpose XAFS, microXAFS in materials, environmental and geological science	Operational
20-ID-B,C	3 - 50	10^{11 -} 10¹³	2 μm × 2 μm minimum	General purpose XAFS, DAFS, microXAFS, time resolved XAFS in materials, environmental and geological science	Operational

APS checked 11 February 2012

CAMD

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
DCM	0.9 - 20	.	.	General purpose	Operational

CAMD checked 11 February 2012

CLS

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
VLS-PGM	0.01 - 0.25	2 x 10¹²	0.5 x 0.5	XAS, XEOL	Operational
SGM	0.25 - 2	4 x 10¹²	0.1 x 1	XAS, PES, XEOL	Operational
HXMA	5 - 40	6 x 10¹¹	0.5 x 0.1	General purpose XAFS	Operational
REIXS	0.08 - 2	1 x 10¹³	0.01 x 0.06	XAS, XMCD, XES, RIXS	Commissioning
SXRMB	1.7 - 10	1 x 10¹¹	0.3 x 0.3	XAS, XMCD, PES, XEOL	Operational
VESPERS	6 - 30	2 x 10^{9 -} 4 x 10¹¹	2 mm spot	microXAS	Operational

CLS checked 11 February 2012

LNLS

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
SGM	0.25 - 1	.	0.5 x 0.5	XANES, XMCD, PES	Operational
SXS	0.9 - 5.5	.	1 x 3	XAFS, PES, XMCD	Operational
XAFS1	4 -24	10⁹	1 x 1	General purpose XAFS	Operational
XAFS2	4 - 17	10¹⁰	0.25 x 0.45	General purpose XAFS	Operational
DXAS	5 - 14	2 x 10¹¹	0.15 x 0.2	Dispersive set-up	Operational
PGM	0.1 - 1.5	.	.	XAFS, XMCD, PES	Operational
TGM	0.007 - 0.33	10¹¹	0.5 x 2	XAFS, PES	Operational

LNLS Checked 5 November 2014

NSLS

Note: NSLS will shutdown on September 30th, 2014; stay tuned for information on NSLS-II

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
U1A	0.1 - 1	.	1 x 2	XANES, surface science	operational
U4B	0.02 - 1.2	1 x 10¹¹	.	XMCD, PES, XAS, Res. Mag. Scattering	operational
U7A	0.18 - 1.6	2 x 10¹¹	.	XANES, PES, surface science	operational
U12A	0.1 - 0.8	1 x 10¹¹	1 x 1	XANES, PES	operational
X1B	0.2 - 1.6	.	0.05 x 2	XAS, PES, XES, RIXS	operational
X3B	3.8-13.3	9 x 10¹¹	0.2 x 0.7	XAFS, dilute elements	operational
X10C	4 - 24	1 x 10¹⁰	0.5 x 10	General purpose XAFS	Closed
X11A	4.5 - 40	1 x 10¹¹	0.5 x 10	General purpose XAFS	operational
X11B	5 - 23		0.5 x 20	General purpose XAFS	operational
X15B	1.2 - 8	10¹²	1 x 1	General purpose XAFS, dilute elements, surface science	operational
X18B	4.8 - 40	1 x 10¹⁰	1.5 x 25	General purpose	operational
X19A	2.1 - 17	5 x 10¹⁰	1 x 2	General purpose, resonant XRD	operational
X23A2	4.7 - 30	1 x 10¹⁰	1 x 25	General purpose, powder XRD, DAFS	operational
X24A	1.8 - 6	approx 10¹²	1 mm diameter	General purpose XAFS, PES, DAFS	operational
X24C	0.006 - 1.8	10⁹ - 10¹²	1 x 2	XANES, PES, reflectivity	Closed

NSLS updated 10 March 2014

SRC

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
CSRF Double crystal	1.5 - 4	.	2 x 2	general purpose	Closed

SRC checked 11 February 2012

SSRL

Beamline	Energy Range [keV]	Flux [photons/s]	Beam size at sample V x H [mm²]	Purpose	Status
2-3	4.5 - 24	10¹⁰	2 μm x 2 μm	microXAFS	Operational
4-1	5.5 - 38	.	4 x 18	General purpose	Operational
4-3	2.4 - 14	.	3 x 16	General purpose	Operational
6-2a	2.3 - 17	.	0.5 x 0.5 ------- 2 x 20	General purpose ----- XES, RIXS	Operational
7-3	4.6 - 37	10¹²	2 x 15	BioXAS	Operational
8-2	0.1 - 1.3	.	0.1 mm spot size	XANES, PES	Operational
9-3	5 - 30	2 10¹²	0.5 x 3	BioXAS	Operational
10-1	0.25 - 1.2	.	1 mm spot size	XANES, PES	Operational
10-2a	4.5 - 45	.	0.2 x 0.45 ----- 2 x 20	General purpose	Operational
11-2	4.5 - 37	.	0.5 x 3 ---- 2 x 30	General purpose, GIXAFS	Operational
13-2	0.25 - 1.1		0.01 x 0.075	XANES, surface science	Operational
14-3	2 - 5			General purpose	available during 2010

SSRL checked 11 February 2012