The main applications of the beamline will be radiographic and tomographic imaging, both in absorption mode and in phase-contrast mode, with a resolution range from approximately 40 µm (projection radiography and tomography) down to 200 nm (full-field microscopy).

Research Fields:

• Material Research
  In the area of Materials Research there will be facilities for in-situ and in-operando characterization of electronic materials, functional materials, microsystems devices, batteries and multi-phase fluidics.
   
• Accelerator research

• Various modes of imaging will be implemented including:
  • Contrast modes: absorption, refraction, diffraction, and fluorescence,
  • Imaging modes: 2D microscopy, radiography, topography, and microdiffraction imaging, 3D tomography and laminography,
     

Techniques:

With these modes, a variety of complementary techniques to obtain different parameters will be accessible, such as:

• White beam fast radiography and tomography in absorption contrast (distribution of the attenuation coefficients in 2D and 3D),
• Propagation-based phase contrast imaging for low-Z and weakly absorbing materials, yielding the refractive index distribution, Element-specific imaging at absorption edges for mapping the spatial distribution of specific elements,
• Full-field X-ray microdiffraction (Rocking Curve) imaging with a spatial resolution at or below the 1 µm scale for analysis and quantification of spatial distributions of crystal lattice misorientations, of defect densities and of local lattice quality in crystalline specimens,
• Full-field microscopy for imaging on the sub-µm or nm scale (using both direct absorption contrast and Zernike phase contrast),
• Tomography and laminography for 3D imaging of objects in absorption and phase contrast to determine the 3D distribution of the linear attenuation coefficient or the refractive index

The flexible beamline optics allows the choice of utilising either monochromatic, pink or white beam radiation for optimizing either high contrast or ultrafast imaging.
On-line image reconstruction will permit the immediate assessment of the experimental data and standardized 3D processing, visualization and analysis software will allow an easy interpretation of the results already during the experiment.