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The SPECIES beamline at the MAX IV Laboratory : A facility for soft X-ray RIXS and APXPS

Urpelainen, Samuli LU ; Schnadt, Joachim LU orcid ; Knudsen, Jan LU ; Hennies, Franz LU ; Såthe, Conny LU ; Arman, Alif LU ; Andersen, Jesper N LU ; Johansson, Niclas LU ; Merte, Lindsay LU and Andersson, Margit LU , et al. (2017) In Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 24(1). p.344-353
Abstract

SPECIES is an undulator-based soft X-ray beamline that replaced the old I511 beamline at the MAX II storage ring. SPECIES is aimed at high-resolution ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS), near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments. The beamline has two branches that use a common elliptically polarizing undulator and monochromator. The beam is switched between the two branches by changing the focusing optics after the monochromator. Both branches have separate exit slits, refocusing optics and dedicated permanent endstations. This allows very fast switching between two types of experiments and offers a unique... (More)

SPECIES is an undulator-based soft X-ray beamline that replaced the old I511 beamline at the MAX II storage ring. SPECIES is aimed at high-resolution ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS), near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments. The beamline has two branches that use a common elliptically polarizing undulator and monochromator. The beam is switched between the two branches by changing the focusing optics after the monochromator. Both branches have separate exit slits, refocusing optics and dedicated permanent endstations. This allows very fast switching between two types of experiments and offers a unique combination of the surface-sensitive XPS and bulk-sensitive RIXS techniques both in UHV and at elevated ambient-pressure conditions on a single beamline. Another unique property of the beamline is that it reaches energies down to approximately 27 eV, which is not obtainable on other current APXPS beamlines. This allows, for instance, valence band studies under ambient-pressure conditions. In this article the main properties and performance of the beamline are presented, together with selected showcase experiments performed on the new setup.

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RIXS, APXPS, Beamlines, MAX IV
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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
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24
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10 pages
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International Union of Crystallography
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1600-5775
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10.1107/S1600577516019056
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English
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  abstract     = {{<p>SPECIES is an undulator-based soft X-ray beamline that replaced the old I511 beamline at the MAX II storage ring. SPECIES is aimed at high-resolution ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS), near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments. The beamline has two branches that use a common elliptically polarizing undulator and monochromator. The beam is switched between the two branches by changing the focusing optics after the monochromator. Both branches have separate exit slits, refocusing optics and dedicated permanent endstations. This allows very fast switching between two types of experiments and offers a unique combination of the surface-sensitive XPS and bulk-sensitive RIXS techniques both in UHV and at elevated ambient-pressure conditions on a single beamline. Another unique property of the beamline is that it reaches energies down to approximately 27 eV, which is not obtainable on other current APXPS beamlines. This allows, for instance, valence band studies under ambient-pressure conditions. In this article the main properties and performance of the beamline are presented, together with selected showcase experiments performed on the new setup.</p>}},
  author       = {{Urpelainen, Samuli and Schnadt, Joachim and Knudsen, Jan and Hennies, Franz and Såthe, Conny and Arman, Alif and Andersen, Jesper N and Johansson, Niclas and Merte, Lindsay and Andersson, Margit and Sankari, Rami and Nyholm, Ralf and GRIZOLLI, WALAN and Lindberg, Mirjam and Sjöblom, Peter and Tarawneh, Hamed and Jensen, Brian Norsk and Agåker, Marcus and Head, Ashley and Wallén, Erik and Reinecke, Benjamin and Huang, Shih-Wen and Kvistholm, Johnny}},
  issn         = {{1600-5775}},
  keywords     = {{RIXS; APXPS; Beamlines; MAX IV}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{01}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{344--353}},
  publisher    = {{International Union of Crystallography}},
  series       = {{Journal of Synchrotron Radiation}},
  title        = {{The SPECIES beamline at the MAX IV Laboratory : A facility for soft X-ray RIXS and APXPS}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/12782642/species07.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1107/S1600577516019056}},
  volume       = {{24}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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