The XAS beamline employs hard X-rays, spanning 5 - 35 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 divided into three ‘modes’ covering the low (5-9 keV), medium (9-19 keV), and high (15-31 keV) energies, which allows access to most of the periodic table.
Elements in Red are analysed in Mode 1, Blue are analysed in Mode 2, and Yellow are analysed in Mode 3.
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