Soft x-ray spectroscopic endstation at beamline 08U1A of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Abstract

A spectroscopic endstation with magnetic field, voltage, and low temperature control has been installed and commissioned at the soft X-ray beamline 08U1A of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, which can obtain a magnetic field up to ±0.53 T, applied current and bias voltage, and cryogenic temperatures down to 14 K with a Gifford-McMahon cycle cryocooler. The endstation can perform soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy methods including total electron yield, fluorescence yield, and X-ray excited optical luminance. Combined with an elliptically polarized undulator and the in situ conditions, the endstation can effectively perform X-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism experiments in the soft X-ray range between photon energies of 250 and 2000 eV.