Design and possibilities of the materials science beamline at DELTA.

Abstract

Synchrotron radiation is well suited for many experimental applications in materials science. Electron storage rings together with insertion devices are essential facilities to create brilliant X-ray beams in a wide spectral range essential for XAFS measurements. At the DELTA storage ring in Dortmund (Germany) we plan to build up a new materials science beamline lbr the photon energy range from 1 to 30 keV with the possibility to use circularly polarized photons. It is designed for the requirements of all XAFS methods, including time resolved QEXAFS-techniques down to ms time resolution and other experiments requiring a high intensity beam.