Momentum Transfer offers a mail-in service for high-quality and high-throughput synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and scattering measurements. You mail us your samples; we perform the measurements and send you the results.

After your samples are received, they will be scheduled for measurement at the next available beamtime, and you'll be notified when the results are ready.

When you setup your measurement request in the portal, you can choose between, high-resolution powder XRD (HR-XRPD), total-scattering pair distribution function (TS-PDF) analysis and small angle scattering measurements (SAXS).

If you want to carry out a large-scale investigation, no stress. We can readily handle thousands of samples in a shift, and our regular shift schedule is great for flexibly scheduling consecutive sample batches.

After the measurements are performed, we take care of the post-processing of the detector images this includes: data reduction, integration, offset correction, background subtraction. Once, the post-processing is complete you'll find raw data, corrected data, reference measurements, detector settings and a report in your account for inspection and download.

We assist users in various scientific endeavors. We can help determine the optimal measurements needed to solve their scientific problems and provide guidance on data interpretation to help users make sense of their findings. We specialize in performing structure refinement, utilizing methods such as Rietveld or real-space refinement. Furthermore, we have experience in determining various sample properties such as phase contents, impurities, crystallite size, bond lengths, and domain size in disordered materials. Our assistance also extends to aiding with crystal structure determination, including unit cell indexing, simulated annealing, reciprocal- and real-space co-refinements. Lastly, we offer statistical analyses for large datasets, allowing for in-depth exploration of the data.

We will provide a quotation on the desired services. Invoices for services can be paid by bank transfer within 30 days. We can also support payment via credit card.

Our services are suitable for both commercial and academic purposes. Customers own the rights to their results.

The measurements offered are only suitable for powdered samples, not single crystals. We can also work with polycystalline solids such as plastics or alloys, semi-solids such as gels, creams, pastes, etc, and have even measured films deposited on substrates. Our current sample holders are not fully sealed against oxygen or moisture, so we advise against sending samples that are highly sensitive to air or humidity. We are working on improvements to accommodate these needs. We are unable to handle liquids, gases, biological samples (e.g., animal tissues), or any dangerous materials: including samples that are poisonous, biological, radioactive, explosive, carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic (CMR), highly reactive, unstable, or pose other significant hazards.