Research @ Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste
Elettra Laboratory Mission:
Using Synchrotron and FEL radiation
to conduct experiments considered
impossible a decade ago !
ELETTRA
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Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste: http://www.elettra.eu
Multidisciplinary international laboratory of excellence, specialized in
synchrotron and free-electron laser radiations and their applications.
Alfonso Franciosi
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Industrial Liaison Office (ILO):
activities using the skills and know-how of the beamline and
machine scientists who are consulting ILO and also execute
service when requested
Solaris Synchrotron – Krakow (PL)
to be operated 550-1.5 GeV
Elettra:
 Provides consulting in design,
installation, test and commissioning
tasks;
 Design, manufacturing, and delivery with
installation and site acceptance test of the
complete UARPES Beamline € 3.070.000
(to be completed by April-May 2015);
 Training scientists.
Elettra involved in:
 Producing 4 improved RF cavities ~
1.4 mln
 Train SESAME personnel
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High quality insertion device for light sources:
http://www.kyma-undulators.eu
Scientific backup by Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
Fabrication of insertion devices for light sources combining more than
twenty years experience in design, assembling, characterization and
operation of insertion devices at Elettra- Sincrotrone Trieste and Fermi, with
the manufacturing capabilities of the industrial partners and shareholders.
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Kyma and Cornell University are cooperating under an
exclusive license agreement for the design, realization
and commercialization of low cost high-performance
compact undulators, based on new concepts
Fixed-gap, variable-phase, compact LPUs
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ELETTRA Storage Ring
23 operating BLs, 2 under commissioning
Fermi -FEL
3 operating beamlines, 3 under construction
FEL1: 20–70 nm FEL2: 4-20 nm
n = c/l
% coherent
polarised
tunable
Transient gratings, generated by the interference of
coherent extreme-ultraviolet pulses delivered by the
FERMI free-electron laser
Operating at 2.0
and 2.4 GeV
Nature 520, 205 (2015), DOI:10.1038/nature14341
October 6, 2014: INAUGURATION IAEA-Elettra
XRF beamline
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Laboratories backing the scientific and training
activity of the Elettra and Fermi beamlines
User support lab
Workshop and sample preparation
tools incl. chemical laboratory.
MUST
Collaboration with University
Trieste for training students in
Synchrotron environment.
Complementary research to PES and XAS
beamlines (SuperESCA, NanoSpec, VUV etc)
Structural Biology lab
Molecular and structural biology
tools to complement research
using SAXS and XRD beamlines.
Tomolab
Powder Diffraction
Support laboratory for MCX, XRD
and XAFS beamlines
NanoInnovation Laboratory
Complementary to the SYRMEP
beamline setup for micro-CT
with microfocus lab source
Atomic Force Microscopy for complementary
studies in support of all beamlines.
Micro and Nano Carbon Lab:
off-line laboratory for samples
Scientific Computing
preparation and analysis focused on C
materials and sensor related research,
Beamline Controls, Data acquisition,
management and processing
MUST
CITIUS and T-ReX
Laser labs complementing Fermi and slicing source experiments.
CITIUS is located in the near-by University of Nova Goriza in Slovenija
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Beamtime at ELETTRA and FERMI@Elettra: via
proposals judged for scientific merits by independent PRPs
Italy 39%
443 got beamtime
Average overbooking ≈ 2 – some beamlines > 3!
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BL 10. 1 X Ray Fluorescence beamline
The XRF beamline can host two stations. The first is the IAEA multi-purposes station (UHVC-PTB Berlin)
combining different XRF techniques: total reflection XRF, grazing incidence XRF, XANES.
Partly operational for users in 2015 with 40% beamtime for IAEA users
and training activities.
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First results obtained by users at BL 10. 1 X Ray
Fluorescence
Zn distribution and speciation Air Particulate
Matter collected in Bangladesh
Localization and speciation of Hg in edible
mushrooms
K. Vogel-Mikuš et al, Uni Ljubliana, Slo
Black Glaze Fe-based decorations of Ancient ceramics: pre-edge XANES
P. Romano et al, INFN, Catania
(420400 b.C.)
These first results were obtained in the frame IAEA Coordinated Research Project
(CRP) program for scientists from associated countries and during the first training
course for Asia-Pacific Countries in November 2014.
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Austrian SAXS beamline: one of the most
productive beamlines
New Detector and upgrade program ongoing .
The quality of a new class of
ultraporous luminescent
materials probed with (SAXS): the
diffraction results confirm the
crystalline order of the framework
matrix surrounding the QDs.
Characterization crystal
structure (GIXRD) and
morphology (GISAXS and
XRR) of the magnetron
sputtered W films as a
function of Ar pressure and
sputter power
Metal organic frameworks (MOF) very promising ultra-porous materials for
a variety of applications, such as
sensing, detecting, gas storage and
separation catalysis and drug delivery.
Structural Characterization of MOF-5
crystals allowing for dynamic
positioning in a magnetic field
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SYRMEP
Mammography with Synchrotron Radiation: First Clinical Experience with Phase-Detection Technique,
Radiology. 2011 Jun;259(3):684-94
Lungs imaging @ SYRMEP complements optical fluorescence microscopy
visualizing Ba- labeled macrophages trafficking to inflammation sites
Bones Ba
Since December 2014 under discussion new project with
in the field of Tomography and XRF using white light as well.
Ongoing ERIC project application for bio-imaging
(Mancini-Tromba)
Sample: acute asthma mouse treated
with macrophages labeled with Ba
Application of Phase Retrieval
 Reducing noise and artefacts
around the tissue edges;
 Enhancing the phases separation;
asthmatic mouse
Healthy Ba treated
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Adding spin filtered momentum detection in
XPEEM microscope @ NanoESCA
Photon energy
50 eV
Spin resolved Fermi surface of Co (10ML Co/Cu(100)
spin integrated intensity
Spin polarization map
C. Tusche et al., Ultramicroscopy
130, 70 (2013)
 aberration corrected energy filter;
 spin filtering by reflection at
W(100) mirror
FZJ, Peter Grünberg Institute– Prof. C. Schneider
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle – Prof. J. Kirschner
C. Tusche et al. Ultramicroscopy 130, 70-76 (2013)
The set-up allows for mapping the intensity distribution of the photoelectrons emitted into the
complete solid angle as a function of the momentum component parallel to the surface, within a
single image acquisition and spin resolution.
Upgrade to energy resolution < 50 meV.
To be open for users second semester of 2015.
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APE beamline: combining sample fabrication and
characterization with conventional and synchrotron-based methods
Omicron EA125
Variable polarization
photons 150-1600 eV
APE-HE
Distribution
center
Users’ docking ports
STM
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S segregation
on Fe(100)
Growth facilities (oxide MBE + new preparation chamber);
MO Kerr effect;
In-operandoLoad-lock
XAS/XMCD/XLMD/XPS;
LEED/Auger
Integration of spin-polarization measurements
ARPES;
Sample growthwith
and prep.
Ultrafast spectroscopy;
Sample preparation
Information management and data repository;
APE-LE
Variable polarization
photons 8-120 eV
Fe(100)
Fermi
surface
VG-Scienta DA30
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Publications 2014: increasing trend in number
and % with high impact factor publications
2012
2013
2014
2014:
47% IF > 7
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APE Beamline: Electrical and reversible on/off switching of
the interfacial FeOx magnetization in the Fe/BTO heterostructure
G. Radaelli et al.
5, 3404 (2014)
By performing XMCD experiment while applying
an electric bias it was possible to discover a
ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic phase transition
in the Fe oxide layer at the Fe/BTO interface as a
function of the BTO electrical state.
The yellow stripe indicates the energy region, corresponding to the Fe oxide where
XMCD changes (dichroic effect) can be supp a function of the BTO electrical poling.
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XAFS: one of the most requested and prodictive
beamlines
Ru4-polyoxometalate: evidence for unique Ru oxide species catalysing solar to fuel energy conversion .
XANES identified two phases in the biomineralization process.
The electrochemical Na
extraction/insertion
mechanism together with
the V oxidation state
has been determined in
operando using XAS
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TwinMic beamline at short undulator: asbestos in lung
tissue:
fibre core @ shell of complex content result of tissue reaction
Synchrotron soft X-ray
imaging and fluorescence
microscopy combined with
Fe m-XANES at ESRF reveal
novel features of asbestos
body morphology and
composition in human lung
tissues
L. Pascolo et al, Particle and Fibre
Toxicology, 6-7, 2011:
Scietific Reports, 2013.
The evidenced Mg participation in tissue reaction has opened a route to further
in-depth investigations on the molecular mechanism of asbestos toxicity
considering important role of Mg in many cell and tissue mechanisms,
particularly oxidative stress defence and inflammatory conditions.
Relevant also to CNT - similar effects!
Proteins–
Protein
Amide I area
NH stretching
Lipids –
CH stretching
• What is the effect on the organic matter content
– proteins, lipids, polysahharides - IRSM.
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Bio-matter and synchrotron radiation
Refraction and absorption
properties of soft X-rays provide
distinct advantages for ‘fast’
imaging of matter consisting of
light elements, as biological
samples, with sensitivity better
than conventional light microscopy.
Lipid droplets and NPs clearly seen
Radiation Damage with increasing
exposure to X-rays
A. Gianoncelli, Lisa Vaccari et al, Soft X-Ray Microscopy Radiation Damage On Fixed Cells Investigated With Synchrotron
Radiation FTIR Microscopy, Accepted in Scietific Reports
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Dissemination of SR and FEL-based science generated @
Elettra beamlines
Trieste: 22-26/06, 2014,
International Workshop on
Radiation Imaging Detectors
2014
2013
19-21/05, 2014 | Melbourne, Photon and
Neutron Applications to the Study of
Biological and Nanoscale Systems
Trieste-ICTP, International
Workshop on Advances in X-ray
Imaging
The First Focus Topic on "Novel Trends in Synchrotron and FEL-Based Analysis”
in the frame of AVS’61, Baltimore in November 2014 (MK Chair)
Results obtained at Elettra lab were reported by five invited speakers:
(B. Bozzini (Uni Lecce), A. Goldoni (Elettra), A. Kolmakov (NIST-USA), P. Rudolf (Uni Gronningen) and C.
Schneider (FZJ)
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Dissemination of SR and FEL-based methodology
and science
7 out 30 Chapters
are Authored or coauthoted by Elettra
scientists
16 Beamline scientist were
organizers and lectureres @
Specialized Schools (Two ICTP/IAEA
schools, HERCULES-Grenoble, SAXS /
SANS data analysis, Melbourne
In 2014 14 staff scientists were
teaching University and PhD
courses in Trieste University
and other Universities in Italy,
Austria and Australia.
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Conclusive remarks
 Elettra had its 21st Birthday October 2014 – in these 20 years
Elettra has been vital and efficient and has attracted user
communities in natural, material and life sciences.
 Elettra has world-class beamline scientists that have been the
driving force to make Elettra an attractive research and training
center.
For remaining competitive and respond the growing science and
technology demands Elettra needs more revolutionary upgrades
of the existing beamlines and experimental stations, replacing
some and biulding new beamlines.
Ongoing upgrades at SAXS and APE. Under consideration
APPES, pink beam tomography, another XAFS, micro-XRF, RIXS.
Long-term vision: Elettra-2 conceptual design project started. The
new machine lattice most probably 6 M-Bend Achromats
structure, reducing the present emittance about 30 times.
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