Bringing the Beamline Home: Increasing Productivity and Reducing Costs with the D8 VENTURE with METALJET X-Ray Source

Vernon Smith

Bruker AXS GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

vernon.smith@bruker-axs.de

The METALJET X-ray source delivers a beam of flux over three times greater than any home-source previously available. In the D8 VENTURE, the METALJET is coupled with the PHOTON 100 CMOS detector which provides greater sensitivity for collecting data from weakly diffracting crystals or those with very large unit cells. The PHOTON 100 also enables continuous data collection which improves data quality and leads to vast reductions in data collection times.

As expected, initial results from the system demonstrate that the performance of the new D8 VENTURE with METALJET will enable much of the work previously requiring synchrotron beam time to be done in the home-lab - screening of weakly diffracting crystals, high quality data collection and high-speed data collection with automated sample changing are now possible.

This enables much more work to be done in the home-lab, reducing the number of synchrotron trips and associated time and financial expenses. High-productivity results not only high sample throughput; but also considers the quality and the value of the results.