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Agriculture, archaeology, biology, biomedicine, chemistry, cultural heritage studies, engineering, energy, environmental science, forensic science, geology, materials science, nanotechnology, new drugs, palaeontology, and physics are just some of the fundamental, applied, and industrial fields that are being revolutionised by the advent of advanced light sources
The SESAME 2.5GeV storage ring, designed to store 400mA electron beam current, is accommodating now 300mA beam current with a good lifetime of around 24h. SESAME has three operational beamlines with five other beamlines under various stages of construction or planning which are broadly broken down into three energy ranges – infrared (< 1 eV), soft X-ray (100 eV to 2500 eV) and hard X-ray (>2500 eV)
The BM02-IR microspectroscopy offers the users a non-destructive vibrational technique that combines the spatial resolution of a microscope together with the high chemical sensitivity of the IR spectrometer. In addition to the SR-IR source broad spectral emission and the wavelength characteristics, Infrared Synchrotron provide advantages in its brightness/brilliance (about 1000 times brighter) with a signal-to-noise ratio that cannot be achieved by the conventional sources.
The BM08-XAFS/XRF beamline is dedicated to synchrotron-based X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF). The source is one of the bending magnets of SESAME, and the optical configuration consists of a vertical collimating mirror, a double crystal monochromator and a focusing mirror, allowing measurements in the energy range from 4.7 to 30 keV, covering most of the elements in the periodic table starting from Ti.
The ID09-MS/XPD beamline is dedicated to X-ray diffraction investigations from polycrystalline materials. Temperature-dependent in-situ measurements up to 1000 °C are possible using a gas blower, and the beamline can be used for a wide range of applications, such as phase identification and quantitative phase analysis, microstructural investigations, Pair Distribution Functions (PDF), grazing angle and reflectivity measurements.
The ID10-BEATS beamline for X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) has been inaugurated in June 2023. Funded by a European Horizon 2020 project, the beamline allows for various operation modes and ensures sufficient photon flux density in a filtered white beam (up to 100 keV) or monochromatic beam between 8 keV and 50 keV.
The ID11L-HESEB beamline provide soft x-ray analysis techniques to understand the atoms' electronic structure and chemical environment. Soft x-ray techniques are surface-sensitive because soft x-rays have a high interaction probability with matters and can be applied to low atomic number elements that are critical for life science, like Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen.
