Argonne National Laboratory mechanical engineer Altaf Khan coordinated the design of two feature beamlines, POLAR at 4-ID and CSSI at 9-ID, during the APS Upgrade.
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“This teamwork played an important role in the recent APS Upgrade, where Khan coordinated the design of two feature beamlines: POLAR at 4-ID, which supports polarization modulation spectroscopy, and CSSI at 9-ID, which enables coherent surface scattering imaging.”
— Argonne National Laboratory team
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