Please contact the SCS team for further technical information about instrumentation in operation and discuss your experiment plans before submitting your proposal.
Scientific Instrument SCS
The Spectroscopy and Coherent Scattering (SCS) instrument will enable time-resolved experiments to unravel the electronic and structural properties of complex materials, molecules, and nanostructures in their fundamental space-time dimensions.
Scientific objectives include, but are not limited to, the understanding and control of complex materials, the investigation of ultrafast magnetization processes on the nanoscale, the real-time observation of chemical reactions in liquids, and the exploration of nonlinear X-ray spectrocopy techniques that are cornerstones at optical wavelengths.
The two baseline SCS experiment stations are complemented with a chemistry station and a high-resolution spectrometer by the Heisenberg RIXS (hRIXS) user consortium. A combination of coherent X-ray scattering with spectroscopy methods will make it possible to investigate atomic as well as electronic details and dynamics on femtosecond time scales with spatial resolutions down to a few nanometers.
12th-Call-for-Proposals: XRD & hRIXS
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SCS instrument and beam parameters
12h Call-for-Proposals, scheduled for the second half of 2024
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XRD and hRIXS updates (Oct. 1st, 2023)
SCS slides presented at the virtual user information meeting on Oct. 10th, 2023, 4pm (CET) for the 12th Call-for-Proposals
hRIXS instrumentation and information
We commissioned the hRIXS spectrometer during Spring period 2021 reaching up to 10,000 resolving power in a photon energy range between oxygen K edge and Cu L edges (0.5-1.0 keV). After a successful period of user-assisted commissioning in Februar and March of 2022, we will welcome first regular users scheduled for the second half of 2022. The XRD and CHEM experiment stations are available to users providing solid and liquid sample environments, respectively. For more information we refer to the agenda and information on the online seminar page, which we hosted on Oct 21st, 2021 at 5pm (CEST) to present users the outcome of the RIXS commissioning at the SCS instrument.
Online hRIXS Seminar: Information about hRIXS instrumentation
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Online seminar slides for download
Provides more information about hRIXS instrumentation, performance and parameters