BMM Goniometer Users Manual

BMM is NIST’s Beamline for Materials Measurement.

Goniometer User

• 1. Introduction to BMM
  • 1.1. TL;DR
  • 1.2. Essential links
  • 1.3. BMM and Building 743
  • 1.4. Acknowledgements
  • 1.5. A note about copyright
• 2. Motors and Coordinated Motions
  • 2.1. Goniometer axes
  • 2.2. Slits
  • 2.3. Attenuator
  • 2.4. Goniometer table
  • 2.5. Photon delivery system
• 3. Detectors
  • 3.1. Measurement Time
  • 3.2. Monitor
  • 3.3. Upstream ion chamber
  • 3.4. Mythen
  • 3.5. Eiger
  • 3.6. Pilatus
  • 3.7. Optical Cameras
• 4. Motion and alignment plans
  • 4.1. Generic motor scans
  • 4.2. Direct beam camera
  • 4.3. Slit alignment
  • 4.4. Horizontal detector alignment
  • 4.5. Mythen Calibration
  • 4.6. Sample alignment
• 5. Preparing for XRR
  • 5.1. XRD mode of the photon delivery system
  • 5.2. Goniometer alignment strategy
  • 5.3. Sample alignment strategy
• 6. X-ray Reflectivity
• 7. Command cheatsheet
  • 7.1. Helper commands
  • 7.2. General commands
  • 7.3. Refine beam shape and position
  • 7.4. Alignment scans
  • 7.5. Measurement scans