Instruments
Please find below the alphabetic list of instruments at BESSY II.
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BESSY II Experimental Stations
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| under construction |
| Station | Remote Access | Methods | Beamline(s) | Contact | |
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| ALICE | Diffractometer/reflectometer for resonant magnetic x-ray scattering applications replaced by ALICE II | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Radu Abrudan | ||
| ALICE II | Upgraded diffractometer/reflectometer for resonant magnetic x-ray scattering applications | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | XMLD, XMCD, NEXAFS, X-ray Holography, Time-resolved scattering, SAXS, Reflectivity, Magnetic Scattering, Coherent Scattering | Florin Radu
Radu Abrudan | |
| ARPES One-Cube | 1^3-ARPES ultra high resolution photoemission station | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Emile Rienks
Alexander Fedorov | ||
| ARPES One-Square | 1^2 ARPES ultra high resolution photoemission station | not possible | Andrei Varykhalov | ||
| BAMline | Nondestructive testing in analytical chemistry From call 2023-I on, BAMline is split into two instruments for formal reasons. | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | NEXAFS, EXAFS, myXRF, XRF, X-ray Tomography, X-ray Refraction Tomography, X-ray Refraction Radiography | Martin Radtke
Bernd R. Müller Ana Guilherme Buzanich Henning Markötter | |
| BAMline Imaging | Nondestructive testing in material science BAMline Imaging and BAMline Spectroscopy share the same instrument | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | X-ray Tomography, X-ray Refraction Tomography, X-ray Refraction Radiography | Bernd R. Müller
Henning Markötter | |
| BAMline Spectroscopy | Nondestructive testing in analytical chemistry BAMline Imaging and BAMline Spectroscopy share the same instrument | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Martin Radtke
Ana Guilherme Buzanich | ||
| BElChem-PGM station AP-XPS | BElChem-PGM station | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Time-resolved absorption, NEXAFS, EXAFS, Mass Spectrometry, XPS | Michael Hävecker | |
| CAT AP-HE-XPS | CAT@EMIL (Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time) | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Time-resolved absorption, NEXAFS, EXAFS, Mass Spectrometry, XPS, NAP-XPS, HAXPES | Michael Hävecker | |
| CoESCA | Coincidence Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis at UE52-PGM | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Danilo Kühn
Ruslan Ovsyannikov | ||
| CryoEXAFS | CryoEXAFS | not possible | Götz Schuck | ||
| EDAX | Excited states dynamics with x-rays at UE49-SGM | not possible | Sebastian Eckert
Lars Birger Mattis Fondell Christian Weniger | ||
| ENERGIZE | ENERGIZE | not possible | Thorsten Schultz | ||
| FEMTOSPEX-DynaMax | Ultrafast XAS, XMCD, XMRS, and RXD with femtosecond soft x-ray pulses at UE56-1-ZPM | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Time-resolved absorption, XMLD, XMCD, NEXAFS, Time-resolved reflection, Reflectometry, Time-resolved diffraction, Time-resolved scattering, REXS, Reflectivity, Magnetic Scattering | Christian Schüßler-Langeheine
Niko Pontius Torsten Kachel Dirk Ponwitz | |
| FEMTOSPEX surface dynamics | Excited states dynamics with x-rays at UE56_1-PGM | not possible | Nomi Sorgenfrei
Erika Giangrisostomi Robert Haverkamp | ||
| HE SGM Station | NEXAFS/XPS station at the HE-SGM beamline | not possible | Maria Brzhezinskaya | ||
| High-Field Diffractometer | Instrument for Dichroic Soft X-ray Absorption and Scattering Experiments in High Magnetic Fields | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | XMLD, XMCD, Reflectometry, REXS, Magnetic Scattering, Elastic Scattering | Eugen Weschke
Enrico Schierle | |
| HIKE | High Kinetic Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Roberto Felix Duarte
Marcus Bär | ||
| Ion Trap | Ion Trap formerly nanocluster trap | not possible | Vicente Zamudio-Bayer
Martin Timm | ||
| IR-Spectroscopy and Microscopy | THz/IR-spectroscopy and -microscopy | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | IR Spectroscopy, Reflectometry, Polarimetry, Ellipsometry, THz-near-field Microscopy, IR Microscopy | Ulrich Schade
Ljiljana Puskar | |
| ISISS station NAP-HE-XPS | Innovative Station for In Situ Spectroscopy | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Time-resolved absorption, NEXAFS, Mass Spectrometry, XPS, NAP-XPS | Michael Hävecker | |
| KMC-2 Diffraction | KMC-2 Diffraction | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Reflectometry, Surface Diffraction, Single Crystal Diffraction, Powder Diffraction, Crystallography (material sciences), WAXS | Daniel Többens | |
| KMC-2 XANES | XANES, EXAFS, myXANES, myEXAFS | not possible | Götz Schuck | ||
| LEEM-PEEM | LEEM-PEEM | not possible | Stefan Cramm | ||
| LiXEdrom | XES, XAS, RIXS, micro-jet station | not possible | Ronny Golnak
Jie Xiao | ||
| LowDosePES | Low Dose Photoelectron Spectroscopy at PM4 | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | NEXAFS, Time-resolved absorption, Time-resolved PES, XPD, XPS, UPS, ARPES | Erika Giangrisostomi
Ruslan Ovsyannikov Nomi Sorgenfrei Robert Haverkamp | |
| MAXYMUS | MAgnetic X-raY Microscope with UHV Spectroscopy | not possible | Time-resolved absorption, XMLD, XMCD, NEXAFS, X-ray Microscopy, Ptychography | Markus Weigand
Sebastian Wintz Michael Bechtel | |
| METRIXS | Momentum and Energy resolved RIXS at molecular Systems at U41-METRIXS | not possible | Annette Pietzsch
Thomas Blume | ||
| meV RIXS | High-resolution RIXS of solids in the XUV regime at UE112-PGM-1 | not possible | Kari Ruotsalainen
Thomas Blume | ||
| MX-14-1 | Macromolecular Crystallography 14.1 | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Manfred Weiss
Uwe Müller | ||
| MX-14-2 | Macromolecular Crystallography 14.2 | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Manfred Weiss
Uwe Müller | ||
| MX-14-3 | Macromolecular Crystallography 14.3 | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Manfred Weiss
Uwe Müller | ||
| mySpot mySpot experiment | Micro-XANES, -EXAFS, -fluorescence | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | myXRF, XRF, NEXAFS, EXAFS, WAXS, SAXS, Elastic Scattering, Anomalous Scattering | Ivo Zizak | |
| MYSTIIC | MYSTIIC@EMIL (Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time) | not possible | Markus Weigand
Simone Raoux | ||
| nmTransmission NEXAFS | Saturation free and time resolved soft X-ray absorption on liquids and colloids for UE52-SGM | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Lars Birger Mattis Fondell
Christian Weniger | ||
| OAESE | Operando Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy at EMIL (Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time) | not possible | Raul Garcia Diez
Anna Efimenko | ||
| PEAXIS | Combined RIXS and XPS | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Deniz Wong | ||
| PHARAO | X-ray diffraction during MBE | not possible | Michael Hanke | ||
| PINK | PINK@EMIL (Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time) | not possible | Sergey Peredkov | ||
| PM3 scattering | Resonant Soft X-ray scattering, NEXAFS, Reflectometry at PM3 | not possible | Torsten Kachel
Niko Pontius | ||
| POLARIMETER | Polarimetry | not possible | XMCD, XRF, NEXAFS, Reflectometry, Polarimetry, Ellipsometry, Reflectivity | Franz Schäfers
Andrey Sokolov Marcel Mertin | |
| Reflectometer | Reflectometry Station | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Franz Schäfers
Andrey Sokolov | ||
| RGBL-PEEM | RGBL PEEM | not possible | Dmitry Marchenko | ||
| RGL-PES | Russian German Photoemission Station | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Dmitry Smirnov
Anna Makarova | ||
| SISSY I | SISSY I@EMIL | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Regan Wilks
Marcus Bär Johannes Frisch Anna Efimenko | ||
| Small Reflectometer | Small Reflectometer | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Andrey Sokolov
Franz Schäfers | ||
| SMART | Spectro-Microscopy with aberration correction for relevant techniques | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | NEXAFS, XMLD, XMCD, Surface Diffraction, X-ray Microscopy, PEEM, XPD, XPS, UPS, ARPES | Thomas Schmidt
Marcel Springer Stephan Pohl | |
| SOLIAS | Solid Liquid Analysis System temporary outage (Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time) | not possible | |||
| SOL³PES | Liquid Jet Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Robert Seidel | ||
| SolidFlexRIXS | Solid state X-ray emission and NEXAFS with extended temperature range for open port use Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time | not possible | Régis Decker
Kari Ruotsalainen Thomas Blume | ||
| SpAnTeX | Spectroscopic Analysis with Tender X-Rays (Please contact the Instrument Scientist before applying for experiment time) | not possible | David Starr
Marco Favaro | ||
| SPEEM | Photoemission Electron Microscope at UE49-PGM | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Time-resolved absorption, XMLD, XMCD, X-ray Microscopy, PEEM, XPS | Florian Kronast
Sergio Valencia Molina Mohamad-Assaad Mawass | |
| spin-ARPES | spin-ARPES at U125_PGM formerly RGBL-2 | not possible | Jaime Sánchez-Barriga
Oliver Jon Clark | ||
| THz spectroscopy & THz EPR | THz Spectroscopy & THz Electron Paramagetic Resonance (EPR) | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Time-resolved absorption, IR Spectroscopy, Reflectometry, Polarimetry | Karsten Holldack
Alexander Schnegg Dirk Ponwitz | |
| TOF-PES | Magnetic Bottle Time of Flight - PES Set-up Only Single Bunch | not possible | Robert Seidel | ||
| VEKMAG | VEKMAG | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Florin Radu
Chen Luo Victor Ukleev | ||
| XM - X-ray Microscopy | X-ray Microscopy | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | NEXAFS, EXAFS, X-ray Tomography, X-ray Microscopy, Fluorescence Imaging | Stephan Werner | |
| X-Ray Pump Probe (XPP) | X-Ray Pump Probe (XPP) | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Matias Bargheer
Matthias Rössle | ||
| XUV Diffractometer | XUV Diffractometer for Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering | depends on experiment - please discuss with Instrument Scientist | Reflectometry, Elastic Scattering, REXS, Reflectivity, Magnetic Scattering | Eugen Weschke
Enrico Schierle | |
| User station | User is providing own station | not possible | |||
| 'Find a station for me' | HZB will assign the station depending on the information given in the proposal | not possible | Astrid Brandt
Bettina Wolter | ||
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