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Plateforms & Instrumental facilities

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Published on 10 September 2025
​The Advanced Microscopy Materials Team (LEMMA) actively participates in the Nano-characterization Platform. (PFNC).


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​Credit: ESRF/P. Ginter​

The Magnetism and Neutron Diffraction Laboratory (MDN) focuses on CRG spectrometers installed at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL). The laboratory manages the IN22 three-axis spectrometer and the D23 diffractometer and participates in the operation of the IN12 three-axis spectrometer, in collaboration with FZ-Jülich, Germany.


Nanostructures and X-rays (NRX) team

Instrumentation 
The team's instrumentation includes powder, single crystal, and medium/high resolution thin film diffractometers. We also use a small angle instrument located at the PFNC (Grenoble Nanocaracterization Platform). We provide support for measurements as well as data processing and analysis.

"Powder" diffractometer in Bragg-Brentano geometry

"Thin Film" Diffractometer in medium resolution / reflectometer

"Single crystals" diffractometer

Small angle scattering instrument (SAXS) at the Nanocharacterization Platform (PFNC)

Diffractometer for "In plane" and "Out of plane" measurements on rotating anode


Synchrotron activities at ESRF

At the ESRF site, the CNRS and the CEA have jointly built and operate the five French CRG beamlines (F-CRG) in order to offer French researchers world-class X-ray beams, cutting-edge techniques, and powerful analysis tools for diffraction and absorption spectroscopy : 

BM02, BM32, BM07, BM30 et BM16

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The NRX team uses three instruments on the French BM32-IF beamline at ESRF (ultra-high vacuum surface diffraction, 4-circle goniometer, µLaue). It is directly involved in their construction, development, and user support.

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The NRX also conducts studies in active collaboration (projects, methodological developments) with several of the ESRF's own lines that can serve as a link to our activities.​