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The development of a new integrated materials science facility (station 9.3 ) on the wiggler line of the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source is outlined. The facility combines instrumentation for data acquisition using both spectroscopic (XANES and EXAFS) and diffraction techniques and is optimized towards industrial applications suck as catalysis and electrochemistry using in situ techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy provide complementary structural tools for the in situ characterization of electrode surfaces. To optimize surface sensitivity, techniques such as glancing angle scattering geometries and spectrum differencing can be employed while the application of synchrotron radiation allows the real-time collection of data. This paper outlines recent developments in in situ electrochemistry on the Daresbury SRS and describes an electrochemical ceil for in situ x-ray studies, associated glancing angle instrumentation, together with computer hardware and software optimized for data acquisition using potential modulation techniques, important fundamental and industrial applications are highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have developed a passive 350 GHz (850 μm) video-camera to demonstrate lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs)--designed originally for far-infrared astronomy--as an option for general purpose terrestrial terahertz imaging applications. The camera currently operates at a quasi-video frame rate of 2 Hz with a noise equivalent temperature difference per frame of ∼0.1 K, which is close to the background limit. The 152 element superconducting LEKID array is fabricated from a simple 40 nm aluminum film on a silicon dielectric substrate and is read out through a single microwave feedline with a cryogenic low noise amplifier and room temperature frequency domain multiplexing electronics.