The XAS beamline employs hard X-rays, spanning 5 - 31 keV. Please see the XAS page on the Australian Synchrotron website here for more details on the XAS photon delivery system. The energy range is accessed via three ‘ beamline modes’ covering the low (5-9 keV aka Mode 1), medium (9-19 keV aka Mode 2), and high (15-31 keV aka Mode 3) energies, which allows access to most of the periodic table. Note that to setup a beamline mode, or switch beamline mode, approximately one day of downtime is required. Therefore, all Mode 1 experiments are bunched together, all Mode 2 bunched together, etc.
Elements in Red are analysed in Mode 1, Blue are commonly analysed in Mode 2, and Yellow are commonly analysed in Mode 3.
Titanium is only possible under certain circumstances - please contact us.
Copper can be analysed in Mode 1 if only XANES is required.
If users would like to analyse edges in different energy modes, they MUST submit a separate proposal for each mode. We recommend that separate proposals have the same content but different sample tables, and be designated ‘Part 1,' ‘Part 2,' etc.
The information in these pages is designed to help users to understand our experimental capabilities and sample requirements and to aid in experimental planning:
XAS Capabilities: Information regarding sample environments
Sample types that we can analyse and sample preparation