I15-1 General Information

I15-1 General Information

Here you will find some general information about the I15-1 beamline at Diamond Light Source.

Beamline Overview

The beamline is a high-energy scattering beamline designed specifically for performing total scattering and pair distribution function studies.

Energies / Wavelengths

I15-1 operates using a single-bounce monochromator, so we’re restricted to three pre-defined energies:

Energy / keV

Wavelength / Å

Energy / keV

Wavelength / Å

40.05

0.309574

65.40

0.189578

76.69

0.161669

Detector

I15-1 uses a Perkin Elmer detector:

  • Perkin Elmer XRD 4343 CT; 2880 x 2880 pixels; 150 µm pixel size

Collection Times

Whilst the amount of time required for a data collection depends on many factors, we typically estimate that a good quality PDF data set can be collected in 10 minutes.

Sample Environments

The beamline is equipped with a wide range of sample environments.

Capillaries

We strongly encourage all users to use the capillaries supplied by the beamline. For the full list of available capillaries, please see this page.