CRG - Advanced Reflectometer for the Analysis of Materials

The reflectometer SuperADAM is an angle dispersive fixed wavelength machine which combines high flux due to a focussing monochromator with a high Q resolution.

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Characteristics (SuperADAM)

Guide hall n°2, cold guide H53

horizontal scattering geometry

0 Å-1 < Q < 2.5Å-1

Monochromator

type

HOPG (002)

GIC

wavelength λ

4.4 Å

resolution δλ/λ

0.007

0.022

λ/2, λ/3... filter (removable)

solid state wavelength filter

cooled Be

Collimation

collimation slit distance

3.2m

4.2m

monochromator-to-sample-distance

3.4m

5.4m

Sample

flux (non-polarized)

2×105 n s-1 cm-2

1.4×10n s-1 cm-2

flux (polarized)

8.6×10n s-1 cm-2


orientation

horizontal scattering plane

Sample enviroment

magnetic field

up to 0.8T (optional 7T magnet)

temperature

from 2K to 400K

Detectors

3He detector

distance to sample

1.7m

background (beam closed)

2 cts per minute

2 dim. position sensitive detector

distance to sample

2m

active area

30×30cm2

efficiency

76%

resolution

2.8 mm (FWHM)

Polarisation and polarisation analysis

polarisers

reflection Bragg/supermirrors 

3He spin filter

efficiency

98.6%

up to 99.9% (variable)

180º spin-flippers

precession coil

analyzer

reflection/transmition supermirros or 3He spin filter

efficiency

99.1% (99.9% with 3He spin filter)

The reflectometer SuperADAM is an angle dispersive fixed wavelength machine which will offer two operation modes:a high flux option with a focussing intercalated graphite monochromator and a high resolution mode with a focussing pyrolytic graphite monochromator. The high flux option will be available in June 2011. An optional polarization and polarization analysis setup can be used for studies of magnetic layered systems. A two dimensional position sensitive detector allows time efficient collection of off-specular data. With a maximum scattering angle of about 95° of the detector arm Q-values up to 2.1 Å-1 can be reached for complementary measurements probing small length scales.


Specialised sample environment can be provided including a cryo-furnace and an electromagnet or cryomagnet.


Being a CRG-B instrument, 30% of the beamtime are made available via the standard ILL proposal scheme.


SuperADAM is operated by the Institut für Experimentalphysik/Festkörperphysikof the Ruhr-Universität Bochum headed by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zabel, and by the Division for Material Physics of the Uppsala University headed by Prof. Dr. Björgvin Hjörvarsson and Prof. Dr. Adrian Rennie.

Since ADAM is co-funded by the German BMBF additional beamtime is made available to the German community within the ’Verbundforschung’.