Synchrotron Techniques & Methods
The National Synchrotron Light Source II enables its growing user community to study materials with nanoscale resolution and exquisite sensitivity. NSLS-II's beamlines and experimental stations offer unique, cutting-edge research tools, including high-throughput robot-driven sample handling, coherent x-ray scattering, unprecedented energy resolution, and x-ray microscopy with nanometer spatial resolution. Beamlines are organized into seven areas, based on the synchrotron techniques and methods they offer.
Spectroscopy
Characterizing the atomic structure and chemistry complex and heterogeneous materials under in situ and operando conditions.
Imaging & Microscopy
Imaging and quantifying the morphology, structure, chemistry, elemental variations, and strain distribution of materials.
Complex Scattering
Uncovering and revealing the nano- to mesoscale structure and complex dynamics of heterogeneous systems under in situ conditions.
Hard X-Ray
Studying local structure and fluctuations in complex materials and buried interfaces often under working conditions.
Electronic Structure
Understanding and controlling the physics of emergent phenomena and catalysis at the nanoscale.
Structural Biology
Investigating and understanding biology through molecular characterization and structure.
Bioimaging
Multimodal imaging from the micro- to nanoscale of elemental abundances and chemical speciation in a wide range of biological materials.
