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CHESS-U update: First Light in ID1A3
The first hutch constructed for the CHESS-U upgrade has begun commissioning and saw first light on January 31, 2018, a short 10 months after the contract with ADC Inc. to pre-fabricate the hutch enclosures was signed.
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Real time loading of single crystals
A new load frame / diffractometer has been commissioned at CHESS for X-ray diffraction experiments on engineering materials during in-situ mechanical testing.
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