The X-ray diffraction beamline (BL14B1) is one of the 7 phase I beamlines at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. It is based on a bending magnet light source which is dedicated to x-ray diffraction studies. It has three critical components:a collimating mirror (Rh coated on Si), a sagittally focused double crystal monochromator and a focusing mirror (Rh coated on Si), which can further focus the beam to a size of 0.5 mm x 0.5 mm. The X-ray energy is from 4 ~ 22 keV.

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is the coherent scattering of X-rays by atoms in the lattice. As a traditional experimental method, XRD has the strong vitality and broad applications in the frontier areas such as superconducting materials, catalyst materials, structure determination of three-dimensional biological macromolecules, drug and polymer, nano-materials, surface and interface, semiconductor superlattice, defects. BL14B1 focuses on material science, condensed matter physics fields, designs to investigate powder,