Beyond Rg Materials SAXS
Expected for Fall 2025
Hardware requirements for software participation.
The objective of the Materials Small-Angle Scattering Short Course is to raise the capabilities of the materials small-angle scattering (SAS) and grazing-incidence SAXS (GISAXS) community by providing an intermediate-level course for those in need of a better understanding of SAS & GISAXS theory, and techniques utilized at the APS. This SAXS short course will offer an overview of small-angle scattering (SAS, including x-ray and neutron scattering) theory, SAS methods and capabilities for materials science, physics, chemistry, polymers etc. Course will include basics on data reduction and short introduction to data analysis tools to enable the community to submit highly effective beam-time proposals and to facilitate better utilization of the resources at the APS.
Participants are expected to have attained at least a doctoral-level education and are encouraged to have a defined experimental program needing small-angle scattering. Participants encouraged to bring their own notebook computers.
SYLLABUS
Fundamentals of Small-Angle Scattering
Theories and Applications of SAXS and GISAXS
SAXS Sample Preparation
Small Angle Scattering Instrumentation
Specific topics of SAXS applications in Chemistry, Polymers, Materials science etc.
Strategies to Write Successful Beam-Time Proposals
SPEAKERS
Jan Ilavsky, XSD/ Argonne
Soenke Seifert, XSD/Argonne
Steven Weigand, DND-CAT/Northwestern
Byeongdu Lee, XSD/Argonne
and other APS XSD and APS CAT's staff members.
Last Webpage update 2/28/2025