In-situ studies in Materials Science using high energy X-rays at the ESRF

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, is one of the four brightest synchrotron sources in the world. Among the 39 instruments (beamlines) available at the ESRF, 4 beamlines are dedicated to high energy diffraction and imaging in materials science:

1. ID11: combination of imaging (tomography) with diffraction, time-resolved studies,
2. ID15A/B: spatially resolved diffraction, time-resolved diffraction, strain measurement, phase mapping, micro-tomography, time-resolved tomography
3. ID19 : imaging
4. ID31: high resolution powder diffraction, strain evaluation

In my talk, I will briefly present the synchrotron (ESRF) and give examples of material research which can be realized on these beamlines with particular focus on in-situ studies using both diffraction and imaging modes.