Crystals (Nov 2017)
A Novel Dual Air-Bearing Fixed-χ Diffractometer for Small-Molecule Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction on Beamline I19 at Diamond Light Source
- David . R Allan,
- Harriott Nowell,
- Sarah A. Barnett,
- Mark R. Warren,
- Adrian Wilcox,
- Jeppe Christensen,
- Lucy K. Saunders,
- Andrew Peach,
- Mark T. Hooper,
- Ljubo Zaja,
- Suren Patel,
- Leo Cahill,
- Russell Marshall,
- Steven Trimnell,
- Andrew J. Foster,
- Trevor Bates,
- Simon Lay,
- Mark A. Williams,
- Paul V. Hathaway,
- Graeme Winter,
- Markus Gerstel,
- Ron W. Wooley
Affiliations
- David . R Allan
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Harriott Nowell
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Sarah A. Barnett
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Mark R. Warren
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Adrian Wilcox
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Jeppe Christensen
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Lucy K. Saunders
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Andrew Peach
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Mark T. Hooper
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Ljubo Zaja
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Suren Patel
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Leo Cahill
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Russell Marshall
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Steven Trimnell
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Andrew J. Foster
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Trevor Bates
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Simon Lay
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Mark A. Williams
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Paul V. Hathaway
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Graeme Winter
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Markus Gerstel
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
- Ron W. Wooley
- Fluid Film Devices Ltd., Unit 8, Greatbridge Business Park, Budds Lane, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 0HA, UK
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7110336
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 11
p. 336
Abstract
Herein, we describe the development of a novel dual air-bearing fixed-χ diffractometer for beamline I19 at Diamond Light Source. The diffractometer is designed to facilitate the rapid data collections possible with a Dectris Pilatus 2M pixel-array photon-counting detector, while allowing remote operation in conjunction with a robotic sample changer. The sphere-of-confusion is made as small as practicably possible, through the use of air-bearings for both the ω and φ axes. The design and construction of the new instrument is described in detail and an accompanying paper by Johnson et al. (also in this issue) will provide a user perspective of its operation.
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