Author: Omelcenko, A.
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THOAM02 SmarGon MCS2: An Enhanced Multi-Axis Goniometer with a New Control System 247
 
  • W. Glettig, D. Buntschu, E.H. Panepucci, M. Wang
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • A. Omelcenko
    SmarAct, Oldenburg, Germany
  
  As an im­prove­ment on the com­mer­cially avail­able Smar­Gon multi-axis go­niome­ter (Smar­Act GmbH), the MX Group at the Paul Scher­rer In­sti­tute (PSI) has been pur­su­ing fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of the sys­tem. In ad­di­tion to sug­gest­ing me­chan­i­cal im­prove­ments to Smar­Act to im­prove rugged­ness and re­li­a­bil­ity, PSI has de­vel­oped a brand-new and flex­i­ble con­trol sys­tem for bet­ter cus­tomiza­tion, re­li­a­bil­ity and con­trol. Cal­i­bra­tion rou­tines were im­ple­mented to re­duce sys­temic er­rors, and the sys­tem has been tai­lored for prac­ti­cal beam­line usage. Smar­Gon is a six de­gree-of-free­dom po­si­tion­ing de­vice, al­low­ing po­si­tion­ing of a sam­ple and ori­en­ta­tion around any given point, with <5um sphere of con­fu­sion di­am­e­ter. It was pur­pose-built for pro­tein-crys­tal­log­ra­phy ex­per­i­ments but, as will be pre­sented here, was also re-pur­posed for other ap­pli­ca­tions. Two de­vices have been in con­tin­u­ous 24/7 use for two years at the MX Beam­lines PXI & PXII at SLS.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2023-THOAM02  
About • Received ※ 24 October 2023 — Revised ※ 05 November 2023 — Accepted ※ 10 November 2023 — Issued ※ 08 January 2024
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