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Multipurpose imaging-plate camera for in situ powder XRD at the GILDA beamline
aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM), c/o GILDA-ESRF BP 220, F-38043 Grenoble, France, bDip. di Fisica `E. Amaldi' Universitá di Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, Italy, cDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitá di Milano, Via Botticelli 23, I-20133 Milano, Italy, dLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN PO Box 13, I-00044 Frascati, Italy, eDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via S.Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy, and fDepartment of Chemistry, University of Oslo, POBOX 1033, Blindern N-0315 Oslo, Norway
*Correspondence e-mail: meneghini@fis.uniroma3.it
An Imaging-Plate (IP) camera for X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) experiments was installed on the synchrotron radiation beamline GILDA at the ESRF. The IP camera can be used in fixed data-collection mode of the whole diffraction rings, or in translation mode for time-dependent experiments. The apparatus is ideal for collecting medium to relatively high-resolution diffraction data from diluted or weakly scattering samples and to investigate in situ phase changes induced by temperature and/or chemical reactions. The possibility to rapidly collect several good quality diffraction patterns coupled with tunable beam energy allow for multiwavelength experiments such as anomalous XRPD.
Keywords: imaging plates; in situ diffractometry; time-resolved.
