APS SAXS beamlines

APS Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Beamlines

Ten different small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) beamlines are accessible to the APS general user (overview). The combined capabilities of these beamlines span a broad range of reciprocal space and X-ray photon energy allowing for investigations from many disciplines of science including biology, materials science, environmental science, chemistry, medicine, and physics. Coupled with a high data throughput and fast time-resolved measurement capabilities, these instruments enable an efficient use of the high intensity and high brilliance APS X-ray source. Some of the beamlines have provided examples of their data.

APS SAXS beamlines

List of APS SAXS beamlines and their capabilities
Beamline Experiments Energy Range [keV] Q range [1/A) Operating group Contact person GU User operations?
1ID High Energy SAXS; Simultaneous SAXS/WAXS 42 - 120 0.005 - 0.4
1-10
XSD Jon Almer, 630-252-1049 Yes
5-BM High Energy SAXS 5-65
8-20 with focusing
0.008 - 20 DND Qing Ma, 630-252-0229
 
 
5-ID Simultaneous SAXS/WAXS; solution scattering; Polymer stress-strain (Instron); DSC (Linkam) 5-19 0.001 -  5 DND Steven Weigand, 630-252-0623  
8-ID-E, I GISAXS and GIWAXS, Reflectivity 7.35 keV or 12 keV (generally fixed at 7.35 keV) GISAXS 0.005-0.25
GIWAXS 0.01 - 2.0
Reflectivity <0.2
XSD-TRR Joseph Strzalka, 630-252-0283
Zhang Jiang, 630-252-3118
 
8-ID-I Wide- and Small-angle XPCS, Rheo-SA-XPCS 8 - 25keV  SA-XPCS
< 0.001-0.6
XSD-DYS Qingteng Zhang
630-252-6366
Eric Dufresne
630-252-0274
Suresh Narayanan
630-252-0287
 
Transitioning in 2025-1
9-ID GI-SAXS,
GI-WAXS, GI-XPCS
6 - 25 keV GISAXS
< 0.001-0.6 
GIWAXS 0.01-2 
 
XSD-DYS Joe Strzalka 630-252-0283
Zhang Jiang 630-252-3118
 
Transitioning in 2025-2
12-BM SAXS, Solution scattering 5 - 23 keV 0.008 - 1 XSD-CMS Sungsik Lee, 630-252-7491  
12-ID-B Simultaneous SAXS/WAXS, Bio-SAXS/WAXS, Grazing incidence SAXS/WAXS, Solution scattering, Time-resolved SAXS 7 - 14 keV 0.003 - 2.8 XSD-CMS Xiaobing Zuo, 630-252-1553
Ivan Kuzmenko, 630-252-0327
Yes
12-ID-E SAXS/WAXS, ASAXS, 
Grazing incidence SAXS, Time-resolved SAXS
4.5 - 36 keV 0.006 - 2.0 XSD-CMS Soenke Seifert, 630-252-0391 Yes
12-ID-E USAXS / SAXS / WAXS
High-res. USAXS
(Anomalous USAXS)
10 - 30 keV Si220
20 - 30keV 
Si 440
Si (220) 0.0001 - 6

high res:
Si (440) 0.00003 - 6
XSD-CMS

Jan Ilavsky, 630-252-0866
 

 

Yes
14-ID Time-resolved SAXS 7 - 17 keV, pink beam 3% bandpasss 0.02 - 3.5  BioCARS Irina Kosheleva 630-252-0467  
15-ID ASAXS/SAXS  5 - 70 keV 0.003 - 0.5 ChemMatCARS Mrinal Bera 
630-252-0472
 
18-ID Bio SAXS/WAXS, static and time-resolved, Biological samples, solutions, 2D focused beam 3.5 - 40 0.002 - 3.0 BIOCAT Tom Irving, 630-252-0524  
20-ID High-Energy SAXS; Simultaneous SAXS/WAXS 35 - 120 0.002 - 0.2 
1 -10
XSD Jun-Sang Park
630-252-... 
2025-3