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Using three variable line spacing plane gratings, VLS-PGM has the capacity to cover a soft X-ray energy range of 5.2 – 250 eV. Since it has become operational in the summer of 2006, it has exceeded the resolution and flux expectation and is currently accepting general user proposals.

Beamline Staff

Left to Right: Chris Ryan, Ru Igarashi, Mike MacDonald & Lucia Zuin  

Panoramic View of CLS

Facilitating research in materials of both fundamental and applied nature, the VLS-PGM beamline delivers high resolution and low energy spectroscopic studies.  Equipped with a number of endstations, such as a solid state absorption chamber, photoemission electron microscope (PEEM) endstation, photoemission  spectrometer with Scienta analyzer, and gas phase-based endstations, users can perform experiments using techniques such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy, spectromicroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, resonant Auger and Auger electron spectroscopy, and X-ray excited optical luminescence spectroscopy. 

                     Please email all remarks, suggestions or concerns regarding this website, to vls-pgm@lightsource.ca