News and Announcements
Below, you will find a listing of the very latest news and announcements from across all three CARS sectors. This includes scientific achievments, staff announcements, user accomplishments, and much more! Be sure to check back often to see what is new!
You can find full listings of of news and announcements for each individual sector using the links on the right side of this page.
Sector Specific News and Announcements
GSECARS
BioCARS
NSF’s ChemMatCARS
GSECARS beamline scientist at XFM / NSLS II
GSE welcomes Roberto Colina-Ruiz, GSECARS beamline scientist at XFM / NSLS II.
13 IDD, Students from Hanyang University
13 IDD, Students from Hanyang Univ look at High-Pressure Raman and Brillouin Scattering Studies of Composite Quantum Materials
Synthesis of a High-Pressure YBr3 Polymorph
Cover of Inorganic Chem illustrates research at 13 IDD, a novel yttrium bromide polymorph, oC16-YBr3, synthesized under high-pressure high-temperature conditions.
First XRD collection
First XRD collected at 13ID-E! Pattern is from CeO2 at 18keV.
Pressure induced structural and electronic band transition in CsPbBr3
Dongzhou Zhang, Sagarmoy Mandal, Duck Young Chung, Jingui Xu, Nannan Shan, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis & Ming Chen, Pressure induced structural and electronic band transition in CsPbBr3. Commun Chem 7, 175 (2024).
Eiger2 CdTe 9M detector
GSE scientists Stella Chariton and Vitali Prakapenka get the new Eiger2 CdTe 9M detector ready for commissioning.
GSE successfully focused 37 keV to ~ 2-2.5 um
13 BMD : Scan of 10um wire, 0.5 um step. GSE successfully focused 37 keV to ~ 2-2.5 um with horizontal mirror, focus was 6-7um before APS U.
DAC is Back!
Technical Commissioning starts at 13 BMD.
AGU 2024
GSECARS is organizing an exciting session at the AGU 2024 Fall Meeting in Washington DC, “MR001 – Advanced Experimental, Computational and Analytical Approaches in Exploring Deep Planetary Interiors“. This session welcomes all contributions that highlight cutting-edge...
BM 1st light
Congratulations! GSECARS BM beamline achieved 1st light on July 22nd.