Speaker
Dr
Germán Castro
(SpLine, Spanish CRG BM25 Beamline at the ESRF - Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), CSIC)
Description
The Spanish CRG BM25 SpLine Beamline is located at the bending magnet 25 of the ESRF, the European Synchrotron in Grenoble France. The beamline is split in two branches: A and B and is dedicated to structural and electronic investigations using hard X-ray techniques mostly in materials science and is specialized on X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HAXPES) and X-ray diffraction techniques (GIXRD, XSD, XRR, HRPD and SC).
In this talk, initially, I will present a review of the technical capabilities, recent improvements and developments of the beamline. In a second part, a short review of the beamline statistics concerning users and scientific output will be exposed. And finally, I will give an outlook and forecast about the SpLine future plans in view of the ESRF phase II upgrade program.
