The group maintains state-of-the art instrumentation at synchrotron and laboratory sources for single crystal and powder work. A brief summary of the available facilities is given below.

UNI-CAT Insertion Device Beamline at the APS

• Single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction instrumentation with precision 8 circle diffractometer.
  
  
• Sample chambers with cryogenic cooling/heating and specialized scattered beam analysis hardware.
  
  
• X-ray transmission microscope with 1mm2 spatial resolution.
  
  
• Ultra small angle X-ray scattering.
  
  
• Dedicated Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition sample chambers for in-situ, time-resolved diffraction measurements of film growth.

Beamline X14A at the NSLS

• General purpose x-ray diffraction beamline with split 6-circle Huber diffractometer.
  
  
• Sagittal focusing optics optimized for both momentum transfer and energy resolution over a wide range of energies 2.5-40 keV.
  
  
• Curved graphite spectrometer for analysis of scattered x-ray energy distribution.
  
  
• Sample chambers with high temperature and low temperature capabilities.

X-ray microbeam instrumentation

• Peltier cooled X-ray CCD with 1000x1000 pixels.
  
  
• Kappa diffractometer optimized for x-ray microbeams.
  
  
• Kirkpatrick-Baez total-external reflection focusing optics for <1 mm-D x-ray beams.
  
  
• State-of-the-art solid state detectors and graphite spectrometers.

Laboratory X-ray Instrumentation

• 4-Circle Huber diffractometer with rotating anode generator.
  
  
• Three powder diffraction instruments with crystal analyzers or solid-state detector.
  
  
• Optics test-bed with backreflection Laue camera and fluorescence instrumentation.