High-efficiency in Situ Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (iRIXS) Endstation at the Advanced Light Source

Authors

Ruiman Qiao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Qinghao Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zengqing Zhuo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shawn Salis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Oliver Fuchs, Universität WürzburgFollow
Monika Blum, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Lothar Weinhardt, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Clemens Heske, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
John Pepper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adam Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adrian Spucces, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ken Chow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Brian Smith, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Per-Anders Glans, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryFollow
Yanxue Chen, Shandong University
Shishen Yan, Shandong University
Feng Pan, Peking University
Louis F.J. Piper, University, Binghamton
Jonathan Denlinger, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryFollow
Jinghua Guo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zahid Hussain, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryFollow
Yi-De Chuang, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryFollow
Wanli Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volume

88

Issue

3

Abstract

An endstation with two high-efficiency soft x-ray spectrographs was developed at Beamline 8.0.1 of the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The endstation is capable of performing soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy, emission spectroscopy, and, in particular, resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering (RIXS). Two slit-less variable line-spacing grating spectrographs are installed at different detection geometries. The endstation covers the photon energy range from 80 to 1500 eV. For studying transition-metal oxides, the large detection energy window allows a simultaneous collection of x-ray emission spectra with energies ranging from the O K-edge to the Ni L-edge without moving any mechanical components. The record-high efficiency enables the recording of comprehensive two-dimensional RIXS maps with good statistics within a short acquisition time. By virtue of the large energy window and high throughput of the spectrographs, partial fluorescence yield and inverse partial fluorescence yield signals could be obtained for all transition metal L-edges including Mn. Moreover, the different geometries of these two spectrographs (parallel and perpendicular to the horizontal polarization of the beamline) provide contrasts in RIXS features with two different momentum transfers. © 2017 Author(s).

Language

english

Repository Citation

Qiao, R., Li, Q., Zhuo, Z., Salis, S., Fuchs, O., Blum, M., Weinhardt, L., Heske, C., Pepper, J., Jones, M., Brown, A., Spucces, A., Chow, K., Smith, B., Glans, P., Chen, Y., Yan, S., Pan, F., Piper, L. F., Denlinger, J., Guo, J., Hussain, Z., Chuang, Y., Yang, W. (2017). High-efficiency in Situ Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (iRIXS) Endstation at the Advanced Light Source. Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(3),
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977592