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Experimental workflows on DIAD, post-processing, and analysis pipelines can all be automated using innovative in-house software. Users can access advanced data acquisition strategies, analyse their data live, and ultimately make informed decisions about their science to maximise the potential of their experimental time. DIAD saw its First Light in December 2018 and welcomed its first User in February 2021. Since then, it has hosted a wide range of users across several fields including, but not limited to: • Medicine - The behaviour of arterial stents under changing pressure for better patient outcomes • Environment: The dynamic study of plant root behaviour in climate change affected soils • Energy – The operando spatial distribution of charge in Li-ion batteries. • Materials – Stress induced cracking in nuclear containment materials. In summary, users can simultaneously collect time- and spatially-resolved information on both the crystallographic micro-structure and material macrostructure. The DIAD beamline has the unrivalled capability to access multiscale, multi-modal information, granting users the ability to investigate highly dynamic systems.

Key Features

Imaging Energies - Pink, 8-38 KeV

Imaging field of view - 1.2 x 1.4 mm

Imaging Pixel size 0.54 µm

Diffraction field of view:

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Beamline optic

Diffraction branch

Imaging branch

Source

Ten-pole wiggler as common source for both branches

Mirrors operation mode

M1 flat mirror

M3 flat mirror

 

M2 bendable mirror

M4 bendable mirror

 

Monochromatic

Pink or monochromatic

Slits

S2 slits for DCM off-set compensation

S3 for DCM off-set compensation and beam size changes

Monochromators

DCM1 with Si (111) crystals

DCM2 with Si (111) crystals

Beam selector

Beam selector shared between both branches

Focusing elements

Platinum-coated KB system

Not applicable

Maximum beam size at sample position

Variable beam size between 13 µm × 4 µm up to 50 µm × 50 µm

1.7 mm × 1.7 mm

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Related publication:  Reinhard, C. et al. Beamline K11 DIAD: A new instrument for dual imaging and diffraction at Diamond Light Source. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 28.6: 1985-1995 (2021). DOI: 10.1107/S1600577521009875.

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