IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor : Charles M. Settens

Advanced X-ray Instrumentation Build 2018

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Solidworks and LABview experience not necessary

Let’s commission and build new instrumentation with older X-ray equipment!

CMSE X-ray Facility has X-ray generators, sources, optics, goniometers, chillers, and detectors that could be potentially utilized for a variety of analytical purposes. We will spend IAP 2018 salvaging and re-designing older components into a useful instrumentation using Solidworks and LabView.

Three projects for new equipment are (1) a hard radiation diffractometer for atomic pair distribution function analysis (atomic PDF) of disordered or amorphous materials (2) a lab based X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectrometer (XANES) for local coordination and valence state of 3d transition metal complexes (3) a Bonse-Hart ultra small angle X-ray scattering (uSAXS) instrument for particle sizing from 100 nanometers - 10 microns.

This workshop gives people with a diverse variety of skill sets the availability to tinker and design an X-ray instrument that would be beneficial to the research effort at MIT!

Contact: Charles Settens, 13-4009A, 845 430-2584, SETTENS@MIT.EDU