Angle Dispersive X-ray Diffraction Beamline on Indus-2 Synchrotron Radiation Source: Commissioning and First Results

Angle dispersive x-ray diffraction (ADXRD) is a basic non destructive tool for the determination of crystal structure. Energy tunability and high flux are added advantages in using synchrotron radiation (SR) source for ADXRD technique. We have installed an ADXRD beamline (BL-12) on Indus-2, the Indian synchrotron source. Indus-2 is a 2.5GeV, 300mA SR source. The beamline consists of a Si (311) crystal pair based double crystal monochromator with bendable focusing optics. The experimental station consists of a six circle diffractometer with scintillation detector and an image plate area detector. The beamline has been used for wide range of experiments like powder and single crystal diffraction; grazing incidence diffraction, x-ray absorption near edge structure, Anomalous XRD, high pressure XRD etc. The beamline is being utilized by users from Indian universities and research institutions.