A triple-crystal diffractometer for high-energy synchrotron radiation at the HASYLAB high-field wiggler beamline BW5

The triple-crystal diffractometer installed at HASYLAB beamline BW5 with a high-field wiggler of critical energy 27 keV for DORIS III, operated at 4.5 GeV electron energy, is described. Samples can be mounted in large cryostats or furnaces normally used in neutron scattering experiments. The instrument has been successfully applied to measure structure factors S(Q) in liquids and amorphous materials, to collect full data sets of highly accurate structure factors for charge-density work, to measure the spin component of the ground-state magnetization in transition-metal and rare-earth compounds, to study the diffuse scattering from stacking faults and dislocation loops in Si single crystals, and for the investigation of various aspects of structural phase transitions: critical scattering in SrTiO₃, oxygen order and stripe order in high-T_c materials. A crossed-beam technique allows for local studies of texture, internal strain and phase changes in the bulk of materials.