Australian National Beamline Facility (ANBF)
BL20B, Photon Factory, Tsukuba, Japan

The ANBF is a mature low-flux (bending magnet) x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) facility that complements XAS capabilities available at the Australian Synchrotron.

How to prepare a proposal for the ANBF

Please click here to download a copy of the XAS Proposal Guidelines issued by the XAS Proposal Advisory Committee.

Please note that as a remote facility operating within a host organisation overseas, the ANBF has a number of administrative procedures that are different from and additional to those for beamlines at the AS. Should your proposal be competitive for beamtime at the ANBF, please contact the beamline scientist for further information on these procedures.

Technical information

Please click here for technical information.

Preparing for your visit

Please click here for useful information when preparing for your visit.

Contact details for the ANBF

Dr. Jade Aitken
Australian Beamline KEK-PF
Oho 1-1, Tsukuba-shi
Ibaraki-ken, Japan 305-0801

Phone: +81 (0)29 864 7959 (ANBF office, direct)
Fax: +81 (0)29 864 7967
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Internal phone numbers (PHS):

• Staff: 2631
• ANBF office: 3891
• User cabin: 3885
• Beamline 20B: 3820
• Beamline xx: 38xx 

These may also be reached from outside the facility via the host organisation (KEK) access number: +81 29 864 5200, which is followed by a prompt in Japanese (then dial the PHS number).