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PTB Laboratory at BESSY II

Since 1998, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany’s national metrology institute, utilizes synchrotron radiation at the storage ring BESSY II in Berlin-Adlershof, continuing the work which started already at the former BESSY I storage ring which has been closed at the end of 1999. The PTB laboratory developed into an European center for metrology with synchrotron radiation, used by collaboration partners worldwide.

The PTB departments 7.1 and 7.2 operate a laboratory at BESSY II with currently twelve experimental stations. PTB offers metrological services to customers and cooperation partners, from routine calibrations to customized metrological solutions and metrology oriented research.

Since 2008, the measurement capabilities are significantly extended and complemented by the Metrology Light Source.

Bessy Labor
Beamline/
measuring set-up
SourceMono-chromatorSpectral range (Photon energy)Spectral
resolving power
Photon flux
(/ s-1)
Beam size
[hor. · vert.
(/ mm2)]
Divergence
[hor. · vert. (/ mrad2)]
Paper (DOI-Link)
B1SX700B II DipolePlane grating50 eV to
1900 eV
103 to 10410110.3 · 1.02.0 · 0.5B1
B2FCMB II DipoleFour crystal1750 eV to
11 keV
10410110.5 · 0.21.2 · 0.3B2
B3aWhite-light beamlineB II Dipolenoneup to
20 keV
undispersedup to 1014
(1% BW)
unfocuseddirect radiation
B3bSource calibrationB II DipoleNormal incidence3 eV to
30 eV
B3cEUV irradiationB II DipoleTransmission filter> 5 nm,
broadband
up to 1017≥ 1 · 1 (variable) 80 · 20
B4aDirect undulator radiationB II U49none75 eV to
535 eV
(1. Harm.)
1%
(1. Harm.)
up to 1016
(1% BW)
unfocuseddirect radiation
B4bPGMB II U49Plane grating75 eV to
1860 eV
103 to 104 108 to 10130.14 · (0.015 to 1)0.6 · 0.4
B4cID13B II U49none~75 eV to
~120 eV
~84up to 10175 · 50.5
B5XPBFB II DipoleMultilayer1 keV1021080.1 · 0.10.005 · 0.005B5
B6XPBF 2B II DipoleMultilayer1 keV~20up to 1013up to 8 · 80.005 · 0.005B6
B7Microfocus tender X-ray
(under construction)
B II DipoleMultilayer PGM or DCM1.5 keV to
10 keV
103 to 10410100.02 · 0.022.6 · 2.6
B8BAMlineB II WLSDouble crystal / Double multilayer8 keV to
60 keV
1031071 · 10.03 · 0.03B8