Great presentation of Juanjuan Huang at the Global XAS Journal Club on Energy Dispersive XAS at the Munich Compact Light Source.

Abstract: X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an important characterization method but has been carried out mostly at large facilities, limiting the power as a routine characterization for scientific purposes. Therefore, a lot of effort has been put in developing laboratory XAS using x-ray tubes and other sources. Novel compact x-ray sources based on inverse Compton scattering can generate brilliant hard x-rays in a laboratory setting, e.g. with a footprint of 7 × 3 m for the one installed at the Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS). Their low-divergence intense beams with tunable well-defined x-ray energies make them well suited for XAS techniques, especially for hard x-rays above10 keV. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the MuCLS facility and a specific XAS setup for such a source. The XAS spectra can be obtained in a short time with great spectral quality. This approach shows great potential to be an efficient and less costly substitute for routine XAS measurements at large facilities.

See full video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xnLzRw9TXE