QXAFS system of the BL14W1 XAFS beamline at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Abstract

The quick-scanning XAFS (QXAFS) method is achieved at the BL14W1 XAFS beamline at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility based on the EPICS and LabVIEW systems. This is realised by the unprecedented use of LabVIEWs data logging and supervisory control module for communication with EPICS in synchrotron radiation facilities. A fine QXAFS spectrum with an energy range of 1.2 keV at the Cu K-edge has been collected in 2 s with stable beam position and the data quality is comparable with that of the step-mode XAFS spectrum. Analog-to-digital converter and double-crystal monochromator set-ups have been optimized in order to acquire optimal parameters for the QXAFS experiments. Signal-to-noise ratios of these spectra have been calculated in order to estimate the importance of these parameters. © 2012 International Union of Crystallography Printed in Singapore-all rights reserved.