HAXPES Facility at the Henry Royce Institute reaches new milestone

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https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/haxpes-facility-reaches-new-milestone/

The first publication from the unique Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy facility has recently been published in a ground-breaking cross industry-academia collaborative project.

Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) uses high energy X-rays to measure the chemical composition in materials from the surface into the bulk non-destructively.

In 2019, the Henry Royce Institute secured the world’s first high throughput HAXPES Lab instrument from Scienta Omicron following a successful installation at The University of Manchester enabling fast HAXPES measurements in the laboratory using a high-intensity liquid metal-jet Gallium X-ray source (9.25 keV).  Prior to this, HAXPES was mainly available at synchrotrons such as at the I09 beamline at Diamond Light Source, where work was carried out to help benchmark the lab system. Applications for advanced materials research are numerous and a number of projects are already in development aligning into Royce’s core research areas.