X-ray Booking

The booking system is available here: https://booking.chem.ox.ac.uk/ you must be registered to use the system, contact the facility supervisor to request this.

Bookings can be made a maximum of 5 days in advance. The maximum numbers of future slots a user can have booked at any given time during Monday-Friday 9am-6pm are:

Maximum per:

Bruker

X’pert

Empyrean

User

4

4

4

Research Group

12

12

12

Once the booked time has elapsed, a user may book new slots up to the maximum again. The limits may be exceeded if the time would otherwise go unused, but please use the booking system honestly and be considerate of other users.

These limits are subject to revision based on demand. If you feel they are not correctly set, or require enforcing then use the contact form to relay your suggestions.

dsc

Bruker D8 Booking
dsc

Empyrean Alpha 1 Booking
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Xpert Alpha 1 Booking

 

Costings

When booking time you will be asked to put down a grant code. This is so that appropriate SRF funding can be recouped and the facility running costs can be accurately accounted for. Funding is only taken if there is a portion of a grant ringfenced for SRF usage, it will not affect consumables or other research budget items. If there is no suitable grant then please write 'no grant'. For example, if: 

  • The user puts down a grant code and there is SRF allocated money on that grant available : Finance will take the funds from the SRF allocation.

  • The user puts down a grant code but there isn't SRF allocated money on that grant available: Finance will check the grant for SRF allocation, and if there isn't any, they won't take any funds.

  • The user puts down no grant : Finance won't check for funds.

Please check with your supervisor/the grant holder what to enter. A lack of SRF funding will never affect access or usage of this facility.

 

Instructions
1.
select any available slot
2.
book

 

Empyrean Mo with PheniX

The molybdenum sourced diffractometer can collect diffraction patterns from 15 to 300 K. A typical collection time per temperature is 2 hours, which means a full variable temperature sweep can take several days. The total time required is not a problem - the instrument can measure continuously in a programmed way, so do not be put off from requesting a set of measurements by the amount of time that it takes. What is very important, is that the data collected are meaningful.

To that end, if you wish to measure a sample(s) using the PheniX, please fill in the application form below and submit it to the facility supervisor along with a diffraction pattern of the proposed sample(s) in .xy format: