Katayama Tetsuo, Nozawa Shunsuke, Umena Yasufumi, Lee SungHee, Togashi Tadashi, Owada Shigeki, Yabashi Makina
Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tshushima Naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, South Korea.
Struct Dyn. 2019 Sep 12;6(5):054302. doi: 10.1063/1.5111795. eCollection 2019 Sep.
An experimental system, SPINETT (SACLA Pump-probe INstrumEnt for Tracking Transient dynamics), dedicated for ultrafast pump-probe experiments using X-ray free-electron lasers has been developed. SPINETT consists of a chamber operated under 1 atm helium pressure, two Von Hamos spectrometers, and a large two-dimensional detector having a short work distance. This platform covers complementary X-ray techniques; one can perform time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy, time-resolved X-ray emission spectroscopy, and time-resolved X-ray diffuse scattering. Two types of liquid injectors have been prepared for low-viscosity chemical solutions and for protein microcrystals embedded in a matrix. We performed a test experiment at SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron LAser and demonstrated the capability of SPINETT to obtain the local electronic structure and geometrical information simultaneously.
已经开发出一种实验系统,即SPINETT(用于跟踪瞬态动力学的SACLA泵浦-探测仪器),专门用于使用X射线自由电子激光进行超快泵浦-探测实验。SPINETT由一个在1个大气压氦气压力下运行的腔室、两台冯哈莫斯光谱仪以及一个工作距离短的大型二维探测器组成。该平台涵盖互补的X射线技术;可以进行时间分辨X射线吸收光谱、时间分辨X射线发射光谱以及时间分辨X射线漫散射。已经制备了两种类型的液体注射器,分别用于低粘度化学溶液和嵌入基质中的蛋白质微晶。我们在SPring-8埃紧凑型自由电子激光装置上进行了测试实验,并证明了SPINETT能够同时获取局部电子结构和几何信息。