Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference (MATSUS24)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2024.370
Publication date: 18th December 2023
ALBA Synchrotron Light Source [1] is a 3rd generation synchrotron with up to 11 operative beamlines, and 5 others under commissioning, construction, or design, open to the scientific user community since 2012.
In this contribution, we will give an overview of ALBA focusing on some of the beamlines that allow measuring under more realistic conditions. One of these tools is the CIRCE-NAPP [2], dedicated to Near Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) NAP-XPS. This technique has experienced a boost in the last two decades as a powerful tool to investigate surface chemical processes minimizing the pressure gap with respect to the UHV conditions traditionally applied. Other beamlines are: CLÆSS [3], which provides simultaneous and unified access to two complementary techniques, X-ray absorption (XAS) and emission spectroscopies (XES); MSPD [4], the Materials Science and Powder Diffraction beamline; and NCD-SWEET [5], that allows Small and Wide angle X-ray scattering measurements (SAXS & WAXS) both in transmission and also in grazing incidence (GISAXS & GIWAXS).
We will put special emphasis on the NOTOS beamline [6], which is the latest beamline from the ALBA Synchrotron that was opened to external users in April 2022. This beamline is devoted to XAS, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and metrology applications in the energy range of 4.5 – 30 keV with the capability to perform XAS and XRD investigations in a quasi-simultaneous way. NOTOS, as a new tool open for the scientific community, allows to study the electronic structure and short- and long-range order within a wide range of scientific disciplines: chemistry, catalysis, energy-related science, nanomaterials, condensed matter and environmental science. In particular, NOTOS has been further developed to focus on in situ and operando measurements on heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis and electrochemistry in general.
[1] https://www.cells.es/en/
[2] BL24 – CIRCE, https://www.cells.es/en/beamlines/bl24-circe
[3] BL22 – CLÆSS, https://www.cells.es/en/beamlines/bl22-claess
[4] BL-NOTOS, https://www.cells.es/en/beamlines/bl16-notos
[5] BL11 - NCD-SWEET, https://www.cells.es/en/beamlines/bl11-ncd
[6] BL16 - NOTOS, https://www.cells.es/en/beamlines/bl16-notos
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