OVERVIEW
The XRF beamline is an experimental station dedicated to X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XRFM), X-ray Fluorescence Tomography (XFCT) and Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence (TXRF) analysis in the hard X-rays energy range (5 to 20 keV). The beamline’s focus is on the determination and mapping of trace chemical elements in samples with applications in the fields of analytical chemistry, biomedicine, environmental geochemistry and materials science.
XRF’s source is a 1.67T bending magnet. The monochromator vacuum chamber can be laterally displaced, so that the whole synchrotron spectra can also be used to excite the samples. The experimental facilities include one station consisting of a high vacuum chamber in which grazing incidence x-ray fluorescence experiments can be carried out. The chamber is equipped with remote-controlled XY$\rm \theta$y sample stages and a HPGe solid state detector, optimised for the detection of light element. The whole setup is mounted in the motorised lift table, which allows vertical positioning of the instruments on the plane where the incoming beam is mostly linearly polarized.
Applications include 2D XRF mapping and speciation of trace elements at 20 microns resolution, 3D information of elements in volumetric samples, analysis of very small masses deposited on flat substrate, trace impurities on surfaces of flat samples, chemical depth profiling surface analysis (from sub nm to mm range).