Techniques¶
What the modelled part of P06 is designed to do, as intent. First cut.
A technique is a portable Catalog Method; a Practice is how a facility adapts it. P06 runs hard X-ray scanning-probe microscopy and nano-tomography, reusing Methods the fleet already carries pending, so the Methods below render unlinked until a technique enters scope (TECH-1).
Scanning fluorescence / diffraction microscopy¶
P06 focuses the beam (the multilayer or crystal monochromator feeding the KB optics) to a micro or nano spot, then rasters the sample across it with the Aerotech scan stage while the Maia XRF array reads the fluorescence at each point (and the area detectors read scattering / diffraction).
| Technique | Catalog method | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scanning X-ray fluorescence / diffraction microscopy | scanning_fluorescence_microscopy |
the Aerotech raster fly-scan over the micro / nano focus reading the Maia array; reuses the slug 2-ID / XFM / LIX / ESRF ID16B share, a further consumer (TECH-1) |
Nano-tomography¶
The NC1 nano-probe carries a Pegasus sample rotation (samr); rotating the sample in the nano-focused beam while reading the area detector gives nano-tomography.
| Technique | Catalog method | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hard X-ray nano-tomography | tomography |
the NC1 sample rotation + area detector; reuses the catalog tomography Method (the 2-BM / FXI / ID19 lineage), a further consumer (TECH-1) |
A dense instrument on familiar vocabulary¶
P06 is the fleet's fullest scanning-probe beamline, but it coins no new vocabulary. Its techniques reuse the scanning_fluorescence_microscopy and tomography slugs already carried across the fleet, and its instrument anatomy reuses existing Families: the monochromators bind Monochromator, the hexapods Hexapod, the scan stages LinearStage, the Maia array EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer, the area detectors Camera. The novelty is in the density and diversity of the device tree (six controller families, two endstations, the Maia array), not in any new Family or Method.
Not modelled yet¶
The concrete acquisition recipes (the raster fly-scan trajectories and dwell times, the Maia mapping readout, the nano-tomography rotation sequences) are not written yet; they join as the deployment approaches the point where CORA drives P06. Whether the scanning / nano-tomography Methods enter CORA's catalog is an owner-scope decision on Model; see Open questions for the world-facts to confirm first.