Australian Synchrotron

Australia’s newest user research facility, the The unique properties of synchrotron light mean Australian Synchrotron is a highly intense that experimental results are far superior in source of light ranging from infrared to hard accuracy, clarity, specificity and timeliness x-rays used for a wide variety of research to those obtained using conventional purposes. laboratory equipment. Synchrotron techniques can generate images and What is a synchrotron? provide elemental, structural and chemical A synchrotron light source is a machine that information from diverse sample types accelerates charged particles such as ranging from biological to industrial electrons to extremely high energies – materials. creating an electron beam that travels at almost the speed of light. When high- How the Australian Synchrotron energy electrons are forced to travel in a can help you achieve your circular orbit, they release extremely research objectives intense radiation – synchrotron light. Access is by peer-reviewed application and is free if you publish your results in the Synchrotron light has many useful open literature. Our services are also properties and can be filtered and directed available on a confidential basis to fee- down ‘beamlines’ for use in a wide range of paying clients. Beamtime applications are non-destructive, high-resolution, rapid, in- invited three times a year. situ, real-time imaging and analysis techniques. The Australian Synchrotron is To find out more about how the Australian an advanced third- generation 3GeV light Synchrotron can help you achieve your source with a high quality, low emittance, research objectives faster, visit stable electron beam that generates www.synchrotron.org.au or call synchrotron light of high brilliance. +61 3 8540 4100.

Techniques available at the Australian Synchrotron Beamline Techniques Capabilities Very flexible beamline for research into high contrast imaging of objects from Imaging and Phase contrast enhanced small animals through to engineering medical therapy high energy x-ray imaging components. For research into the physics and biophysics of cancer therapy techniques. Infrared Analysis of bond structures in complex spectroscopy Fourier Transform infrared molecules, biological materials, minerals (including high spectroscopy and infrared and band structures in certain semi- spectral resolution microspectroscopy far-IR) conductors. For producing high-resolution maps of elemental distribution in a sample with Microspectroscopy X-ray absorption and very low detection limits ( µg/g). Also for (x-ray fluorescence emission spectroscopy at a determining the oxidation state and microprobe) submicron scale coordination geometry of atoms in samples, down to 100nm size. Versatile high resolution powder Powder diffraction Medium to high energy diffraction facility equipped with sample powder x-ray diffraction holders for a wide range of in-situ experiments. Dedicated facility for crystallography of Protein Medium energy, multiple protein crystals, set up with robotic crystallography, wavelength anomalous loading and centring, and for remote high-throughput dispersion x-ray diffraction operation. Facility with finely focussed x-ray beam Protein microcrystal Medium energy, multiple for determining the crystal structure and and small molecule wavelength anomalous electron density maps of small, hard–to- diffraction dispersion x-ray diffraction crystallise proteins, nucleic acids and for small molecules. Small angle and Medium energy small angle Measurement of atomic and nano-scale wide angle x-ray x-ray scattering/wide angle structure in complex molecules and scattering x-ray scattering materials. Measurement of short and medium range order, bond lengths, coordination Low energy x-ray Soft x-ray numbers and local coordination absorption and emission spectroscopy geometry, and the oxidation state of spectroscopy atoms for the light elements, Z<20. Also for the analysis of surfaces and thin films. Medium and high energy X-ray absorption As for soft x-ray spectroscopy, from x-ray absorption and spectroscopy atomic number Z=20 upwards. emission spectroscopy

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