DIAMOND-BASED BEAM MONITORS
FOR X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS
Diamond-based Beam Monitors provide continuous
in-situ data without interfering with your beam.
Sydor manufactures a full suite of beam monitors made from electronic-grade CVD diamond processed to ensure the highest levels of performance. These monitors are available in designs that can provide in-situ measurements of the beam’s flux, timing data, position, and image the beam’s profile in real time.
When paired with Sydor’s T4U Electrometer with PID, the beamline can be programmed to provide automated alignment correction with mirrors, positioning stages, or any other peripheral equipment. Sydor’s readout electronics are designed to pair with the suite of diamond-based monitors to provide a powerful turnkey solution. This provides an all-in-one readout solution that easily integrates the monitor’s into user’s beamlines, improving efficiencies in monitoring your beam’s diagnostics with the added time-saving option of alignment correction.
Contact our application specialists to configure your beamline solution.
TYPES OF DIAMOND-BASED MONITORS
Sydor’s family of diamond-based monitors are available with the following functions and capabilities:
- Single-channel intensity monitors
- Single-channel intensity and timing monitors
- Four-channel position monitors
- 32×32 Transparent X-ray Camera
Sydor’s team of experts engineer each monitor to meet your beam’s requirements. This includes special designing of your monitor’s diamond thickness, metallization selection, and cabling selection for applications requiring ultra-fast timing capabilities with MHz acquisition rates.
DIAMOND AS A SENSOR MATERIAL
The data below explain various performance aspects of our x-ray beam monitors and why electronic-grade single crystal diamond is a superior material compared to other materials, often used for beam monitoring methods.Single Crystal Diamond Flux Calibration
High quality diamond sensors have been shown to have a linear response with x-ray flux over 11 orders of magnitude.2
Responsivity vs Photon Energy
High quality diamond sensors can operate over a wide spectral range.1
X Position Resolution
Y Position Resolution
High quality diamond quadrant sensors provide position resolutions of at least 0.1% of the x-ray beam’s size. The position resolution measurements shown are for a 4.00 mm horizontal x 1.00 mm vertical x-ray beam.3
Temporal Response
High quality diamond sensors allow the observation of individual synchrotron bunches. 2
- J. Keister and J. Smedley, NIM A 606, (2009), 7
- J. Bohon, E. Muller, and J. Smedley“Development of diamond-based X-ray detection for high-flux beamline diagnostics” J Synchrotron Radiation. 2010 Nov 1; 17(Pt 6): 711–718.
- J. Smedley, A. Héroux, J. W. Keister, M. Gaowei, E. Muller, J. Bohon, K. Attenkofer, J. Distel. Diamond X-ray Beam Position Monitors. Proceedings of the 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference, New York, NY USA. pp. 483-485.