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BL-17A : Macromolecular Crystallography

Overview

Beamline group Group 4 (Protein Crystallography)
Techniques
  • X-ray crystallography
Features
  • Fast and accurate diffraction measurements with a small X-ray beam and a pixel array detector.
  • Diffraction measurements from a crystallization plate.
Area of research
  • Structural biology
  • Organic/In-organic chemistry, nano-structure science
Contacts
  • Yusuke YAMADA yusuke.yamada★kek.jp
    • Please change (at) to @ in the e-mail address.
Special notes

Performance

Source
  • 2.5GeV PF, Short Gap Undulator (SGU#17)
Optics
  • Monochromator (17.5 m):
    Numerical link type Si(111) double crystal monochromator, liquid nitrogen cooling
  • Vertical Focusing Mirror1 (20.7 m):
    Rhodium coated silicon single crystal (Flat shaped, 1000 mm (L) x 100 mm (W) x 50 mm (T) ) with 4.0 mrad glancing angle
  • Horizontal Focusing Mirror1 (27.0 m):
    Rhodium coated silicon single crystal (Flat shaped, 1000 mm (L) x 100 mm (W) x 40 mm (T) ) with 4.0 mrad glancing angle
  • Vertical Focusing Mirror2 (36.1 m):
    16 electrodes bimorph (350 mm (L) x 40 mm (W)), two stripes (Rh/SiO2) with 4.0 mrad glancing angle
  • Horizontal Focusing Mirror2 (36.5 m):
    16 electrodes bimorph (350 mm (L) x 40 mm (W)), two stripes (Rh/SiO2) with 4.0 mrad glancing angle
Energy range
  • 0.9 - 2.2 Å
Resolution (ΔE/E)
  • ~ 2 x 10-4
Beam size
  • 0.040 mm (H) x 0.016 mm (V)
Photon flux
  • 1.5 x 1011 photons/s (0.98 Å)
Instruments
  • Cryocooling device : CryoIndusty Co. G2B
  • Fluorescence detector : Amptek XR-100CR(Si-PIN)
  • Sample changer: PAM (in-house developed)
Detectors
  • EIGER X 16M (DECTRIS Co.)
Remote / Mail-in
  • Available
Special notes

More information

References

  1. N. Igarashi, M. Matsugaki, Y. Yamada, M. Hiraki, A. Koyama, K. Hirano, T. Miyoshi and S. Wakatsuki, AIP Conf. Proc., 879, 812-815 (2007), doi:10.1063/1.2436184
  2. N. Igarashi, K. Ikura, T. Miyoshi, N. Matsugaki, Y. Yamada, M. S. Yousef and S. Wakatsuki, J. Synchrotron Rad., 15, 292-295 (2008), doi:10.1107/S0909049507067118
  3. M. Hiraki, S. Watanabe, N. Honda, Y. Yamada, N. Matsugaki, N. Igarashi, Y. Gaponov and S. Wakatsuki, J. Synchrotron Rad., 15, 300-303 (2008), doi:10.1107/S0909049507064680

Publications

KEK-PF Publication Database (Publications of BL-17A)

Last updated: 2021-9-30

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