Design of the Taiwan contract bending-magnet beamline at SPring-8

The BL12B2 beamline at SPring-8 is a Taiwan contract bending magnet beamline designed for multiple applications. This beamline is able to provide different operational modes of white beam and monochromatic photons of energies from 5 to 70 keV. The end stations under construction include a micro-beam station, a MAD protein crystallography station, a high-resolution X-ray scattering/diffraction station, and an EXAFS station. This beamline has been installed and will be ready for user operation in the spring of 2001.