Welcome to the SAM85 at X17B2 Home Page

4-camera video server (password protected) Best viewed with 1024 x 768 resolution

Acknowledgements: Please include the following support information on all publications and posters:

"Use of the National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886. Use of the X17B2 beamline was supported by COMPRES, the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR 01-35554 and by the Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University"

Original installation of SAM85 in the X17B1 hutch, 1990

X17B Operating Schedule

January - April, 2009

May - August, 2009

September - December, 2009

SAM85 Users List (telephone and e-mail for local contacts)

NSLS Home Page

MPI Home Page

List of all runs since 2005
List of all 1050 runs prior to 2006 (1989-2005), in chronological order

Drawings of various cell designs

Support

Software

SAM85 Operating Manual

(WINDOWS/EPICS version)
  • (documentation under construction January, 2006)

PLOT85 for Windows

Plot85 versions prior to 7.0.0 do not work under Vista.

  • Tutorial
  • Complete Instructions
  • For data collected between January 1, 2004 and prior to Dec 31, 2005, you must use Version 5.2.1a or later.
  • For data collected after January 1, 2006, you must Version 5.10.4 or later
  • For data collected after June 28, 2008, you must use version 7.4.4 or later
  • (for executable, see Software, above)
  • History of data formats and Plot85 version

    Run numbers
    dates
    data format
    Plot85 version
    1-18 11/89 - 8/8/90 6-column MCA none
    19-309 8/18/90 - 1-column MCA 6.3.5
    309-737   ?  
    738-807

    9/22/2002-10/26/2003

    APS-4 det 4.1.0
    808-1037

    2/4/2004-10/19/2005

    APS-4 det 5.2.1a
    1038-1050 11/11/2005-11/21/2005 MAR none
    1051-1125 2/26/2006-9/25/2006

    APS 4 det

    5.10.4
    1126-1307 9/26/2006-6/28/2008 MED 4-det  
    1308 6/29/2008 MED 10-det 7.4.x