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Proposal application deadline: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Periods: May 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011 (Normal proposals) May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2013 (Long-term proposals) Proposal submission: http://www.psi.ch/sls/px-beamlines-call-for-proposals Travel support: http://www.psi.ch/useroffice/sls-elisa News: - In-situ X-ray diffraction screening available at X06DA (with any SBS-format plates and at any time during a shift) - Possibility to combine beamtime at X06SA and X06DA, please indicate your shift requests in the proposal (only one proposal is needed on either X06SA or X06DA) - X10SA accepts proposals for combined single crystal diffraction and UV-Vis, fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy studies (see R.Owen, et al., JSR, 2009, 16, 173) - Automatic sample changer (IRELEC CATS) with SPINE pucks, vials, and caps (MOLECULAR DIMENSIONS) available at all beamline (except on the MD2). Only day time (9:00~23:00) operation is supported. - PSI DUO application for iphone: http://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/psi-duo/id375328818?mt=8 X06SA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxi): - Undulator beamline with flux of 2x10E12 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 17.5 keV (2.07 - 0.71 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: HRD - 85x10 microns and 0.35x0.06 mrad; MD2 - 25x5 microns and 0.5x0.4 mrad - PILATUS 6M pixel detector at the High Resolution Diffractometer, allowing continuous, fine phi-sliced data acquisition (12.5 frames per second) with 20 bit dynamic range (see http://pilatus.web.psi.ch/ or www.dectris.com for further informations) - MAR225 CCD at Micro-Diffractometer MD2, allowing data collection with a focussed beam size of 25x5 micrometers, and down to 10x5 micrometer using an aperture. X06DA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxiii): - In-situ X-ray diffraction screening capabilities (available at any time during a shift, all SBS-format plates supported) - Super-bending magnet beamline with flux of 5x10E11 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 17.5 keV (2.07 - 0.71 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 80x45 microns and 2x0.5 mrad (with possibility to reduce horizontal divergency to 0.4 mrad) - Mini-hutch design for fast manual mounting - MAR225 CCD detector X10SA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxii): - In-situ on-axis single crystal UV-Vis, fluorescence, Raman and Resonance Raman microspectrophotometer - Undulator beamline with flux of 2x10E12 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 20 keV (2.07 - 0.62 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 50x10 microns and 0.6x0.1 mrad - PILATUS 6M pixel detector Best regards, The MX group at SLS -- Dr Vincent Olieric Beamline Scientist Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institut WSLA/218 5232 Villigen PSI - Switzerland +41 (0)56 310 5233
