The BL12B2 beamline at SPring-8 is a Taiwan contract bending magnet beamlin
e designed for multiple applications. This beamline is able to provide diff
erent 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 sc
attering/diffraction station, and an EXAFS station. This beamline has been
installed and will be ready for user operation in the spring of 2001. (C) 2
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