Status – shows the current storage ring monitors of several synchrotron facilities around the world. Shake your device if you’re bored to display one at random! A bunch of the links that we used before are broken and we will continue to update these as we make improvements.  Can’t find the synchrotron that you use? Contact me (and if you know the web address for the status page that’s even better!) and you just might see it in the next release.

Elements – Will display the general atomic properties, absorption edges, and fluorescence lines (with yields) for elements hydrogen through californium. A must for the x-ray absorption experimenter or microprobe user.  Can also click on the “filter” button to show you the elemental filters that could used for scatter reduction in an EXAFS experiment.

Absorption – Don’t know how much your kapton windows absorb at Cu? Wondering if that meter of air path will absorb all your x-rays? The x-ray absorption calculator will tell you! This utility Will calculate the absorption length and total absorption of any compound, given the x-ray energy, chemical formula, density and thickness of the compound of interest. Includes a list of common compounds, and you can also add your own.

Chambers – Ever wonder how much X-ray flux is really in your experiment? By entering the basic properties of the ion chamber in your experiment (gas composition, pressure, energy, chamber length, measured voltage and amplifier gain) you will get the x-ray flux in photons per second.