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Beamline News:
August 31, 2007: Martin Kunz joins the x-ray
microdiffraction team as a beamline scientist for the 12.3.2
station. April 17, 2007: First light in beamline 12.3.2
hutch. Beginning of beamline commissioning.
March, 2007: Jim Patel (1925-2007) in memoriam:
http://www.als.lbl.gov/als/news.html BL 12.3.2. Hutch
rebuilt completed. October, 2006: Beamline 7.3.3. down.
Move to the new superbend station 12.3.2. initiated. May 12, 2006: Yet
another version of XMAS has been released. Please note
that you'll also need to update your dlls in your 'param'
folder for this version to function properly.
December 16, 2005: A
bug has been discovered in the last version of XMAS
which prevent to correctly display the orientation of
hexagonal crystals using sequential list files. The bug
has been corrected in the latest version available on
the download page. The good news is that you do not need
to rerun analyses. Simply load your current *.seq file
with the patched XMAS.
December 12, 2005:
The next cycle schedule (January-June 2006) is now
posted in the User Resources section.
October 22, 2005:
A workshop on 'Frontiers
of Synchrotron-based X-Ray microdiffraction',
organized by N. Tamura
and B.W. Batterman
will be held on Saturday October 22nd, 2005 during the ALS
users' meeting. This workshop will be the opportunity to
acknowledge the decade-long contribution to the field of
our estimed colleague Jim Patel who turns 80 this
year, as well as to give an overview of the latest
developments in the technique and its applications. To
attend this workshop, please register with the
ALS users' meeting. More info on this workshop will
be posted soon. A tentative schedule can be find
here.
August 4, 2005: The first version of the XMAS
guide is finally available on-line (Go to
User Resources). I wish
to express my sincere thanks to Sean Polvino, Odile
Robach and Bryan Valek for their terrific efforts toward
this goal. The present guide is a compilation of the
different user guides started independently by them,
plus some of my personal additions. This XMAS guide v1
is still very incomplete but we hope it will be useful
while waiting for v2! Feedbacks and comments are
welcome.
August 2, 2005: a Linux version of the XMAS code
has been implemented at the beamline directly in the CCD
control computer. In a previous stage, the CCD was
remotely controlled from a PC using the windows version
of the XMAS code through the beamline local network.
This was causing some variability in the exposure time
during diffraction scan in period of enhanced network
activity possibly leading from time to time to a crash
of the system. Linux XMAS would hopefully solve this
problem!
July 31, 2005: Bryan Valek has decided to leave the
Advanced Light Source to follow a new career path. Wishing
him all the best for the future! June 1,
2005: Proposals for general user beamtime for the
period of Jan-Jun 2006 are due July 1, 2005. Click
here for more info. June
1, 2005: Download the current
beamline schedule for Jul
- Dec 2005. January
6,
2005: Download the current
beamline schedule for Jan - Jun 2005.
December
14,
2004: General user proposals are due on January 5,
2005 for beamtime July-December 2005. July 30,
2004: Our new web
site is up and running, but will still be under
construction while we add more features. |
