======================================================================= SYNCHROTRON BEAM TIME FOR MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AT SLS =======================================================================
Proposal application deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Periods: May 1, 2012 - August 31, 2012 (Normal / Test proposals) May 1, 2012 - April 30, 2014 (Long-term proposals) Proposal submission: http://www.psi.ch/sls/px-beamlines-call-for-proposals Travel support: http://www.psi.ch/useroffice/eu-support-programmes PSI DUO application for iphone: http://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/psi-duo/id375328818?mt=8 What's New? - X06SA High-resolution diffractometer: PILATUS detector runs two times faster (25 Hz) - X06SA Micro-diffractometer: Triple aperture (5, 10, and 20 microns) with one mouse click exchange - X06DA PILATUS 2M (60 Hz) - the fastest detector for protein crystallography - X06DA Multi-axis goniometer (PRIGO) - X06DA In-situ X-ray diffraction screening for any SBS format plate - X10SA Single crystal spectroscopy (UV-Vis, fluorescence and Raman), but no open call for this period (see details below). X06SA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxi/pxi) - Undulator beamline with flux of 2x10^12 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 17.5 keV (2.07 - 0.71 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: HRD - 85x10 microns and 0.35x0.06 mrad; MD2 - 25x5 microns and 0.5x0.4 mrad - PILATUS 6M pixel detector at the High Resolution Diffractometer, allowing continuous, fine phi-sliced data acquisition (25 frames per second) with 20 bit dynamic range (see http://pilatus.web.psi.ch/ or www.dectris.com for further information) - MAR225 CCD at Micro-Diffractometer MD2, allowing data collection with a focussed beam size of 25 x 5 micrometers, and smaller beam size with triple-aperture assembly ( 5 x 5, 10 x 10, 20 x 20 micrometer). X06DA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxiii/pxiii) - Super-bending magnet beamline with flux of 5x10¹¹ photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 17.5 keV (2.07 - 0.71 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 80x45 microns and 2x0.5 mrad (with possibility to reduce horizontal divergency to 0.4 mrad) - Mini-hutch design for fast manual mounting - PILATUS 2M (60 Hz, 450 um Si sensor) - Multi-axis goniometer (PRIGO) for crystal re-orentation - In-situ X-ray diffraction screening (with any SBS format plate) available during users shifts (R. Bingel-Erlenmeyer, et al., Crystal Growth & Design 2011, 11, 916) X10SA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxii/pxii) - Undulator beamline with flux of 2x10^12 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 20 keV (2.07 - 0.62 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 50x10 microns and 0.6x0.1 mrad - In-situ on-axis single crystal UV-Vis, fluorescence, Raman and Resonance Raman microspectrophotometer (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxii/spectrolab) - PILATUS 6M pixel detector Note: beamtime for single crystal spectroscopy is very limited in this call period due to a scheduled diffractometer upgrade. Best regards, The MX group at SLS __________________________________ Meitian Wang Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institut CH-5232 Villigen PSI - http://www.psi.ch/sls/ Phone: +41 56 310 4175 Fax: +41 56 310 5292
