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SMIS

SMIS beamline (Spectroscopy and Microscopy in the Infrared using Synchrotron), is dedicated to micro-spectroscopy and imaging. It covers a large frequency domain (between 1 to 100 microns wavelength).

This spectromicroscopy beamline aims to deliver high brilliance infrared radiation in the 2.5-100 microns spectral range. The synchrotron beam is split to operate two systems working in parallel. The beamline is dedicated to microscopic analysis with 3 infrared microscopes, coupled to FTIR spectrometers, are used to study microns-size samples for a large variety of applications (biology, biomedical, soft matter, earth and environmental science, cultural heritage, astrophysics and high pressure science).

Home-built horizontal microscope, with large working distance, allows to study at very high pressure ( > 200 Gpa), at low temperature (LHe temperature) to high temeparature (800K).

A complementary Raman microscope equipped with three laser colors is available on demand for users.Near-field spectroscopy and micrroscopy using the SR and laser sources at 20 nm spatial resolution.

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Beamline Energy Resolution
2.5 * 10-5 [eV] @ 0 [eV]
0.2 * 101 [eV] @ 0 [eV]
Beamline Resolving Power
2.5 * 10-5 [E/deltaE] @ 0 [eV]
Beamline Energy Range
0.025 - 0.62 [eV]
Max Flux On Sample
4 * 1014 [ph/s] @ 0 [eV]
Spot Size On Sample Hor
5 - 22 [um]
Spot Size On Sample Vert
5 - 22 [um]
Divergence Hor
78 [mrad]
Divergence Vert
20 [mrad]
Angle Of Incidence Light On Sample Value
20 - 40 [degrees]
Other Optics

Bruker Hyperion II

Description
Location / branch: SMIS 1
Spectral range: MCT/A detector, 650 - 6000 cm-1
Spectral resolution: 0.125 - 32 cm-1
Operation modes: Confocal dual aperture, single aperture, reflection and transmission geometry
Hyperspectral Imaging with a tuneable QCL source in the 900-1800 cm-1 range
Accessories: Linkam heating stage, high quality purge box, microfluidic devices
Objectives: 15x (0.5 NA), 36x (0.65 NA)

Continuum microscope / Thermo Nicolet 8700 bench

Description
Location / branch: SMIS 2

Spectral range:
MCT/A detector, 650 - 6000 cm-1
InGaAs detector 2000 - 14000 cm-1

Spectral resolution: 0.125 - 32 cm-1

Operation modes: Confocal dual aperture, single aperture, reflection and transmission geometry

Accessories: Linkam heating stage, microfluidic devices, Thermo ATR accessory

Objectives: 15x (0.58 NA), 32x (0.65 NA), 15x ATR ZnSe

The Thermo Nicolet 8700 bench is capable of time resolved studies in Rapid Scan and Step/Scan modes.

Horizontal microscope / Thermo Fischer iS50 bench

Description
Location / branch: SMIS 2
Spectral range:
MCT/A detector, 650 - 6000 cm-1
Si Bolometer, 100 - 900 cm-1
Si photodetector, 5000 - 12500 cm-1
Spectral resolution: 0.125 - 32 cm-1
Operation modes: Reflection and transmission geometry
Accessories: Diamond Anvil Cells (DAC), DAC LHe flow cryostat (base T~15K), DAC heating accessory (T up to 700 Cº), custom user experiments
Objectives: 15x (0.5 NA)

mIRage photothermal IR and simultaneous Raman microscope

Description
Location / branch: SMIS extension
Spectral range: 800 - 1800 cm-1
Spectral resolution: 0.5 cm-1
Spatial resolution: ~500 nm
Operation modes: Reflection (Si and APD detectors for high and low power operation), Transmission (Si detector)
Accessories: Raman spectrometer, fluorescence imaging
Manufacturer: Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp

NeaScope

Description
Location / branch: SMIS 1
Spectral range: MCT/A detector, 650 - 4000 cm-1
Spectral resolution: 8-16 cm-1
Operation modes: scattering SNOM spectromicroscopy; AFM-IR (photothermal)
Accessories: tuneable QCL laser (900-1800 cm-1); Peltier heating stage (0-100 ºC)

Nicplan microscope / Thermo Fischer iS50 bench

Description
Location / branch: SMIS 2

Spectral range:
MCT/A detector, 650 - 6000 cm-1
Si Bolometer, 100 - 900 cm-1

Spectral resolution: 0.125 - 32 cm-1

Operation modes: Confocal dual aperture, single aperture, reflection and transmission geometry

Accessories: Linkam heating stage, microfluidic devices, Diamond Anvil Cells

Objectives: 15x (0.58 NA), 32x (0.65 NA), Bruker Grazing Incidence Objective
contacts
BORONDICS Ferenc
SANDT Christophe
CAPITANI Francesco
Techniques
Absorption
  • IR spectroscopy
  • Time-resolved studies
Imaging
  • Fluorescence imaging
  • IR Microscopy
Disciplines
Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Femtochemistry, solid- and liquid-state chemistry
  • Green Chemistry
  • Other - Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
Earth Sciences & Environment
  • Ecosystems & Biodiversity
  • Geology
  • Marine science/Oceanography
  • Mineralogy
  • Other - Earth Sciences & Environment
  • Plant science
Energy
  • Sustainable energy systems
Engineering & Technology
  • Detectors
  • Other - Engineering & Technology
Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Agriculture & Fisheries
  • Biophysics
  • Food quality and safety
  • Medicine
  • Molecular and cellular biology
  • Other - Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Protein and macromolecular structures
Material Sciences
  • Knowledge based multifunctional materials
  • Other - Material Sciences
Physics
  • Astronomy/Astrophysics/Astroparticles
  • Hard condensed matter - electronic properties
  • Matter under extreme conditions, warm dense matter, plasmas
  • Nanophysics & physics of confined matter
  • Other - Physics
  • Quantum electronics & optics
  • Soft condensed matter physics
  • Surfaces, interfaces and thin films
  • Technique Development - Physics
control/Data analysis
Control Software Type
  • OMNIC (Thermo Scientific), OPUS (Bruker), NeaScan (Attocube/NeaSpec), Resolutions Pro (Agilent), PTIR Studio (Photothermal Spectroscopy Inc.)
Data Output Type
  • spectra, images
Data Output Format
  • OMNIC, OPUS, NeaScan, Resolutions Pro, PTIR Studio
Softwares For Data Analysis
  • commercial (OMNIC, OPUS, Resolutions Pro, Unsrcambler, Cytospec)
    open source (Quasar, https://quasar.codes)

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