X-ray Laue Back-Scattered Camera

The high resolution Laue X-ray camera allows a digital Laue diffraction pattern to be recorded with a resolution of 2774 x 1843 pixels and 14-bit digitisation.

The X-ray passes through the camera and is either collimated down to < 1mm diameter using apertures or the camera can be combined with a polycapillary focussing optic and 50W X-ray source combination to provide a small, high intensity X-ray spot on the target material . The active area input dimension is similar to that of Polaroid film i.e. 156 mm x 104.4 mm. Exposures from a few seconds up to 30 minutes can be set. Manual or Automatic crystal orientations can be obtained before the sample is cut. Twinned structures occurring during crystal growth can be unveiled using a high resolution mode.

Upgrades from existing X-ray sources are made using high precision mechanics allowing accuracy down to 0.05 degrees. A micro-diffraction set-up for both laboratory and or synchrotron sources can be provided on demand.