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. 2018 Apr 3;25(Pt 3):885–891. doi: 10.1107/S1600577518003120

Table 1. Summary of the beamline hardware for MX2.

Beamline name Micro Crystallography – MX2
   
Source type U22 undulator
 Total length 3 m
 Period 22 mm
 Minimum gap 6.6 mm
 Peak field @ minimum gap 0.85 T
K max 1.75
 Monochromator Double-crystal Si(111) liquid nitrogen cooled (DC) or channel-cut Si(111) liquid nitrogen cooled (CC)
   
Energy range (keV)  
 User controlled (DC) 8.0–15.5 
 Full range available (DC) 6.5–18.0 
 User controlled (CC) 12.0–13.5 
   
Wavelength range (Å)  
 User controlled (DC) 1.55–0.80 
 Full range available (DC) 0.69–1.91 
 User controlled (CC) 0.92–1.03 
   
Mirrors Three Si mirrors with Rh and Pt stripes; one vertical focusing (VFM), one horizontal focusing (HFM) and one horizontal microfocusing (MHFM). All mirrors operate at or close to 2.8 mrad incident angle.
   
Beam size, without apertures (FWHM) (H × V) µm 22 × 12 µm
   
Photon flux (at 13 keV)  
 Full beam 3.4 × 1012 photons s−1
 20 µm aperture 5.1 × 1011 photons s−1
 10 µm aperture 2.0 × 1011 photons s−1
 7.5 µm aperture 1.4 × 1011 photons s−1
   
Goniometer Horizontal air-bearing
Cryo capability CryoJet 5
Pixel detector EIGER X 16M (Dectris Ltd, Switzerland)
Fluorescence detector Vortex Si-drift detector (Hitachi High-Technologies Science America, Chatsworth, CA, USA)
Sample mounting SAM system

From February 2017.