SAXS Lab - 148C MRL

The CMM Small-Angle X-ray Scattering facility is based on a Rigaku 18kW rotating anode generator coupled to a Small Angle Diffractometer optimized for weakly-scattering soft condensed matter samples. This specialized instrument employs Osmic high-flux confocal multilayer optics, evacuated flight-paths for background suppression, and a Bruker HiStar 2D wire detector for efficient data collection. A computer controlled xyz translation stage allows for automatic data collection.  The SAXS beamline is modular in design and will accommodate a range of flight path lengths for different Q-ranges (up to ~70 nm).

Techincal Considerations:

• Operating Wavelength: 1.54 nm

• Pixel Size: 105um x 105um

• Flight path lengths: 0.40m, 0.65m, 0.93m, 1.20m (all use ~0.8mm x 0.8mm beam at sample position), 1.70m (0.5mm x 0.5mm beam at sample position)

SAXS Lab

Microscopy Lab

Protein Lab

DNA PCR Lab