Beamline 6-ID-D

 
High-Entropy Alloys Could Lead to a Wide Range of Complex Materials
01.26.2016
Researchers used high energy XRD at beamline 6-ID-D, coupled with aerodynamic levitation, to study the liquid/solid transition of high-entropy alloys with an eye at enabling new generation materials w...
6-ID-D
Modeling Temperature-Dependent Structure in Sodium Borate Melts
08.31.2016
Researchers used high energy diffraction measurements of aerodynamically-levitated, glass-forming liquids at 6-ID-D to investigate the liquid and glass structures of Sodium Borate. The goal is to disc...
6-ID-D
Teasing Out Iron's Structural Subtleties
01.24.2018
The behavior of iron at high temperatures and pressures plays an important part in our understanding of Earth's interior. Scientists must quantify how iron's physical and chemical characteristics are ...
6-ID-D, 20-BM-B
Crystals, Lasers, Glasses, and Bent Molecules: Adventures in Nonlinear Optics
04.22.2020
By combining x-ray diffraction data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s APS with other structural data and computer modeling, researchers uncovered the secrets behind how a glass can act like a cry...
6-ID-D
Obstacles to Sodium-Ion Battery Performance: When Too Much Order is a Bad Thing
10.12.2020
When Too Much Order is a Bad Thing: Pioneering x-ray methods developed by these researchers and used at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source complimented by measurements at the Cor...
6-ID-D
Twisting, Flexible Crystals Key to Solar Energy Production
03.29.2021
Twisting, Flexible Crystals Key to Solar Energy Production: Long-hidden molecular dynamics that provide desirable properties for solar energy and heat energy applications to an exciting class of mate...
6-ID-D
Building a Better Simulation for a Better Refractory Oxide
04.16.2021
Building a Better Simulation for a Better Refractory Oxide: Properly testing refractory materials that are essential for industrial applications and processes in extreme environments is challenging, ...
6-ID-D
Probing the Structure of a Promising NASICON Material
09.13.2021
Probing the Structure of a Promising NASICON Material: Research carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source provides fresh insights into the process of homogeneous nucleat...
6-ID-D
Induced Flaws in Quantum Materials Could Enhance Superconducting Properties
01.11.2022
Induced Flaws in Quantum Materials Could Enhance Superconducting Properties: An international team of researchers using two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities including the Advanced Ph...
6-ID-D
Under Strain, Materials Take on Enhanced Quantum Properties
08.08.2022
Scientists studying materials that exhibit quantum properties would like to manipulate those properties to better understand them and to create useful materials, including superconductors that work at...
6-ID-D
Quantum Leap: Advancing High-Temperature Superconductor Research
09.19.2022
Quantum Leap: Advancing High-Temperature Superconductor Research: Researchers have discovered that nickel, a neighbor of copper on the periodic table, can also superconduct as an oxide, but so far on...
6-ID-D, 11-BM-B
Taming the Big Data Beast With Machine Learning
08.24.2023
A group of physicists and computer scientists has developed a machine learning strategy that can extract charge density wave (CDW) – an ordered modulation of electrons – and intra-unit-cell (IUC) ...
6-ID-D
 

 

Beamline 6-ID-D is operated by the Magnetic Materials Group in the X-ray Science Division (XSD) of the Advanced Photon Source.

This is a high energy (50 - 130 keV) beamline used for structural studies primarily on single crystal materials.
Local Contacts
Douglas Robinson (General Diffraction)     630.252.0247   [email protected]
Chris J. Benmore (Pair Distribution Function)     630.252.4207   [email protected]