High Heat Load Diamond Monochromator Project at ESRF

Due to its outstanding thermal properties, diamond is an attractive alternative to silicon as a monochromator material for high intensity X‐ray beams. To date, however, the practical applications have been limited by the small size and relatively poor crystallographic quality of the crystals available. The ESRF Diamond Project Group has studied the perfection of diamonds in collaboration with industry and universities. The group has also designed and tested different stress‐free mounting techniques to integrate small diamonds into larger X‐ray optical elements. We now propose to develop a water‐cooled Bragg‐Bragg double crystal monochromator using diamond (111) crystals. It will be installed on the ESRF undulator beamline, ID06, for testing under high heat load. This monochromator will be best suited for the low energy range, typically from ∼3.4 keV to 15 keV, due to the small size of the diamonds available and the size of the beam footprint. This paper presents stress‐free mounting techniques studied usi...