Optical Layout of the Beamline
Photograph of The Beamline
Photon Beam Parameters
- Spectral Range: 5-20keV
- Energy Resolution: 1eV at 10keV [measured value ~ 7000 (ΔE/E) at Cu K-edge]
- Flux: 1010 photons/sec at 10keV
- Beam Size: 0.7mm (H) x 0.5mm (V)
- Angular Resolution:
- 15 arc sec (single crystal in rocking curve open detector geometry)
- 0.03 degree (2σ in 2θ) for powder LaB6 (NIST) on diffractometer
- 0.06 degree ((2σ in 2θ) powder sample on Image Plate)
Flux at 2.5 GeV, 100mA
Experimental Stations Available
There are two experimental stations in tandem. The adaptive focusing optics allows us to focus the photon beam on one or the other experimental station. The first experimental station consists of a six circle diffractometer (Huber-5020) with NaI scintillation detector. The four circles consist of θ, 2θ,φ and X rotations.φ and X rotations are used to adjust single crystal samples. The second experimental station consists of an area detector (Image Plate Mar-345) for fast recording of XRD data on powder sample.
Photographs of the Experimental Stations
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Six circle Diffractometer Huber-5020 |
Image plate Mar 345 |
Features of the Huber-5020 diffractometer
Angular range |
0 – 100° |
Sample environment |
- Air, Powder sample with provision for sample rotation
- High temperature ( up to 800K) See Photograph below
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Higher order suppression |
Possible with detuning of the second crystal |
Various scan modes |
- θ-2θ scan
- detector scan
- rocking curve scan
- φ and χ scans
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Incident flux monitoring |
On line measurement using Ionization Chamber |
Q Range |
4.66 Å-1 (6 keV) - 14.74 Å-1 (19keV) |
Angular Resolution |
15 arc seconds |
High Temperature X-ray Diffraction Set-up
Details of the Image plate setup
Diameter |
345mm |
Sample environment |
- Air
- High pressure (Diamond anvil cell based)
- Low Temperature (3K – 450K) . Efforts are being made to reduce /eliminate Be peaks generated from Be domes.
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Higher order suppression |
Possible with detuning of the second crystal |
Sample mounting |
- Powder sample in a capillary with provision for sample rotation
- Powder sample sandwiched between kapton sheets
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Q Range |
up to 10.88 Å-1 (at 20keV) |
Angular Resolution |
0.06 degree (2σ in 2θ) |
High Pressure X-ray diffraction Set-up on Image Plate
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Picture of the DAC on an automated X-Y scanner developed at RRCAT |
A view of the X-Ray beam locator software developed at RRCAT |
Note : Users need to bring their own DAC and accessories. Microscope required for loading the sample in DAC is available |
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Test Data: XRD pattern of LaB6 as a function of pressure. |
Low Temperature XRD set-up (3K to 450K) on Image Plate
- Liquid He based flow type cryostat
- Temperature Range - 3K – 450K
- PID Temperature Controller (Lakeshore 331)
- Temperature stability ≈ 0.15K
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Cryostat mounted on Image Plate setup |
Test Data : XRD pattern for BaTiO3 |
Detectors available on experimental stations
- NaI (Tl) Scintillation point detector
- Ionization Chambers
- Low resolution x-ray CCD for x-ray beam viewing (20x onscreen)
- Image plate (Mar 345) area detector
- Vortex-EX SDD energy dispersive detector
Research Highlights
- X-ray diffraction studies of Gd1-xCaxBaCo2O5.5 system (0 <= x <= 0.30)
- Determination of concentration of Eu valence states in EuCu2Ge2 using XANES
- Ordering of a'-Fe,Co nanocrystalline phase in soft magnetic FeCoNbB alloy
- XRD study of correlation of the magnetic properties of Cu free FINEMET alloys with air annealing at various temperatures.
- Investigation of charge states and multiferroicity in Fe doped h-YMnO3
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Low level Fe-substitutions on Mn site in YMnO3 multiferroic clearly contrast the roles of magnetic versus non-magnetic B-site dopants. The doped magnetic Fe ions weaken the Mn-Mn interaction. Doping driven enhanced charge disorder (Mn+3 / Mn+4) quenches the spin frusration (f); this affects the biferroicity minutely, but alters their coupled magneto-electric features hugely.
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- X- ray Diffraction study of Low Temperature Phase transition in LiMn2O4 system
User List :
User |
Affiliation |
A K Sinha |
ISUD, RRCAT, Indore |
Amol |
Anuj Upadhyay |
Harish |
M K Tiwari |
M N Singh |
Manas |
S R Kane |
Shailendra Kumar |
Vishal Dhamgaye |
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Archna Sagdeo |
MRL, ISUD, RRCAT, Indore |
Ashok Bhakar |
Kamini |
Madhusmita Baral |
Pooja Gupta |
Pragya Tiwari |
Ravindra Jangir |
Soma Banik |
Shreyaskar Dev Singh |
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Adityanarayan H Pandey |
RRCAT, Indore |
Amita Chaturvedi |
Ashish Khandelwal |
Debabreta Saha |
G J Singh |
J Khare |
M K chattopadhya |
Md. Matin |
Pankaj Mishra |
Parul Arora |
Pramod Radheyshyam |
R Kaul |
Rajeev Bhatt |
S B Roy |
S M Gupta |
S Satpathy |
Saleem Khan |
Sangeeta |
Shyamsundar |
Sunil Verma |
V Shukla |
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A P Srivastva |
BARC, Mumbai |
Atul |
H P U |
Meenakshi |
N L Mishra |
Nilesh |
Rekha Rao |
S N Achary |
S Neogy |
Wishvanath |
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Anthony Arulraj |
IGCAR, Kalpakkam |
Balmukund Shukla |
Bharthi A |
R. Kalavathy |
Kishan |
M Sekar |
Mahadevan |
R Asuvathraman |
R N Sarguna |
N V Chandrashekhar |
Ravi Kirna |
S Murugesan |
Sabeena |
Shabana |
Shilpam |
Sorb |
Soumee Chakraborty |
Sridharan |
Srinu |
Subramanium |
Vinod |
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Bishnu Pandey |
Allahabad, University |
S Deshpandey |
Aurangabad University |
Ranvijay Yadav |
BHU, Varanasi |
Ratnesh Gupta |
DAVV, Indore |
S N Kane |
DAVV, Indore |
Sheetal Soni |
DAVV, Indore |
H M Rai |
IIT - Indore |
Kaustav |
IIT - Kharagpur |
Sujoy KAR |
IIT - Kharagpur |
Chandan Upadhyay |
IIT BHU, Varanasi |
Mukesh Kumari Dahiya |
IIT Delhi |
Anvita |
IIT Indore |
Anjali Deotale |
IPS Academy, Indore |
Kavita |
IUC, Indore |
Sonu Namdeo |
IUC, Indore |
Sarika |
Jiwaji University |
Shobha Kulshreshta |
Jiwaji University |
Deeptikant Pathy |
JNCASR, Bangaluru |
Jaideo |
JNCASR, Bangaluru |
Rajeev Ranjan |
JNCASR, Bangaluru |
Subhajit Kundu |
JNCASR, Bangaluru |
Shweta Rajawat |
MANIT, Bhopal |
R Nandini Devi |
NCL, Pune |
Rajesh |
NCL, Pune |
Manas Ranjan Panda |
Pondichery University |
R Murugan |
Puducherry University |
Debaleen Biswas |
SINP |
S K Abdul Farque |
SINP |
Anirban Pal |
TIFR |
Selected Publications
- Electron-irradiation induced changes in structural and magnetic properties of Fe and Co based metallic glasses
S. N. Kane, M. Satalkar, A. Ghosh, M. Shah, N. Ghodke, Pramod R., A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, J. Dwivedi, F. Celegato, F. Vinar, P. Tiberto, L. K. Verga
Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2014) In press.
- Spectroscopic and structural studies of isochronally annealed cobalt oxide nanoparticles.
Harishchandra Singh, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, Pragya Tiwari, D. M. Phase, S. K. Deb
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 75 (2014) 397
- Spin-fluctuations in Ti{0.6}V{0.4} alloy and its influence on the superconductivity.
Md. Matin, L.S. Sharath Chandra, Radhakishan Meena, M. K. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, S. B. Roy;
Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter 436 (2014) 20.
- Structural modification of poly (methyl methacrylate) due to electron irradiation
Pragya Tiwari, A.K. Srivastava, B.Q. Khattak, Suveer Verma, Anuj Upadhyay, A.K. Sinha, Tapas Ganguli, G.S. Lodha, S.K. Deb;
Measurement (2014) (Accepted for publication)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2014.01.017.
- Investigation of charge states and multiferroicity in Fe doped h-YMnO3.
Sonu Namdeo, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh and A. M. Awasthi;
J. Appl. Phys. 113 (2013) 104101
- Magnetic irreversibility and pinning force density in the Ti-V alloys.
Md. Matin, L. S. Sharath Chandra, M. K. Chattopadhyay, R. K. Meena, Rakesh Kaul, M.N.Singh, A. K. Sinha, and S. B. Roy;
J. Appl. Phys. 113 163903 (2013)
- Angle dispersive X-Ray Diffraction beamline on Indus-2 Synchrotron radiation source: commissioning and first results.
A. K. Sinha, Archna Sagdeo, Pooja Gupta, Anuj Upadhyay, Ashok Kumar, M.N.Singh, R.K.Gupta, S.R.Kane, A.Verma, S.K.Deb;
J. Phys.: Conf Series 425, 072017(2013).
- A high pressure XRD setup at ADXRD beamline (BL-12) on Indus-2.
Tapas Ganguli, A.K.Sinha, Chandrabhas Narayana, Anuj Upadhyay, M.N.Singh, P.Saxena, V.K.Dubey, I.J.Singh, Sendhil Raja, H.S.Vora, S.K.Deb;
J. Phys.: Conf series 425, 112001 (2013).
- Characterisation of Sb doped Bi2UO6 solid solutions by x-ray diffraction and x-ray absorption spectroscopy.
N. L. Misra, A. K. Yadav, Sangita Dhara, Rohan Phatak, S. K. Mishra, A. K. Poswal. S. N. Jha, A. K. Sinha and D. Bhattacharya;
Analytical Sciences 29, 579 (2013).
- Correlation of microstructural and physical properties in bulk BiFeO3 prepared by rapid liquid- phase sintering.
Archna Sagdeo, Puspen Mondal, Anuj Upadhyay, A. K. Sinha, A. K. Srivastava, S. M. Gupta, P. Chowdhury, Tapas Ganguli and S. K. Deb;
Solid State Sciences 18 (2013) 1.
- High pressure structural investigation of LaGa.
M. Sekar, Chandra Sekar, S. Chandra, P. Sahu, A. K. Sinha, A. Upadhyay and M. N. Singh;
Philosophical Magazine,(2013); dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2013.826880
- Magnetic Properties of Termary Aluminide TbFeAl10
A. Khandelwal, V. K. Sharma, L. S. Sharath Chandra, M.N.Singh, A. K. Sinha, M. K. Chattopadhyay;
Physica Scripta (2013) (Accepted for publication)
- Optical Properties of Cd(OH)2 Nanoparticles by Pulse Laser Ablation in Aqueous Environment.
A. K. Shahi, B. K. Pandey, J. K. Pandey, A. K. Sinha, and R.Gopal;
Mater. Focus 2, 342-345
- Electronic structure of EuCu2Ge2 studied by resonant photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy.
Soma Banik, Azzedine Bendounan, A. Thamizhavel, A. Arya, P. Risterucci, F. Sirotti, A. K. Sinha, S. K. Dhar, S. K. Deb;
Phys. Rev. B86, 085134 (2012).
- A correlation between structural and optical properties of cobalt oxide nanoparticles for various annealing conditions.
A. K. Sinha, R. K. Gupta and S. K. Deb;
Appl. Phys. A (2012), in press (Online: DOI 10.00339-012-6938-y).
- Influence of isochronal annealing on the microstructure and magnetic properties of Cu-free HITPERM Fe40.5Co40.5Nb7B12 alloy.
Pooja Gupta, Tapas Ganguly, A. Gupta, A. K. Sinha, P. Svec Jr., V. Franco and S. K. Deb;
J. Appl. Phys. 111 (2012) .
- Magnetic property of novel cobalt sulfate nanoparticles synthesized by pulsed laser ablation.
B. K. Pandey, A. K. Shahi, R. K. Swarnkar and R. Gopal;
Sc. Adv. Mater. 4 (2012) 1
- Growth of CsI:Tl crystals in carbon coated silica crucible by the gradient freeze technique.
S. G. Singh, D. C. Desai, A. K. Singh, M. Tyagi, Shashwati Sen, A. K. Sinha, S. C. Gadkari and S. K. Gupta;
J. Cryst. Growth, 351, 88 (2012).
- Synthesis and characterization of various phases of cobalt oxide nanoparticles using inorganic precursor.
R. K. Gupta, A. K. Sinha, B. N. Raja Sekhar, A. K. Srivastava, G. Singh and S. K. Deb.
Appl. Phys. A 103, 13 (2011).
- Oxidation state of chromium in (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3)(1-x)(BiCrO3)x solid solution investigated by XAS and Impedance spectroscopy.
Rachna Selvamani, Gurviderjit Singh, A. K. Sinha and V. S. Tiwari;
J. Mat. Sci. 47, 2011 (2011).
- Temperature-dependent index of refraction of monoclinic Ga2O3 single crystal.
Indranil Bhaumik, S. Ganesamoorthy, R. Bhatt, A. Saxena, A. K. Karnal, P. K. Gupta, A. K. Sinha and S. K. Deb;
Appl. Optics, 50, 6006 (2011).
- Structural evaluation and the kinetics of Cu clustering in the amorphous phases of Fe-Cu-Nb-Si-B alloys.
Pooja Gupta, Ajay Gupta, Anuj Shukla, Tapas Ganguly, A. K. Sinha, G. Pricipi and A. Maddalena;
J. Appl. Phys. 110, 033537 (2011).
Contact Number : 244 2512/ 244 2125
Contact Details |
Dr. A.K. Sinha |
(anil(at)rrcat.gov.in) |
Mr. Anuj Upadhyay |
(anuj(at)rrcat.gov.in) |
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