Members

• MAX IV laboratory

  

  The MAX IV facility is based on new technology and scientific theories that have been developed at the Lund-based MAX Lab since the early 1980s. MAX IV has three accelerators – a linear accelerator and two storage rings. The large ring has a circumference of 528 metres, comparable with the Coliseum in Rome.

  At present, 16 beamlines are funded and in operation or being constructed or commissioned. In total, the facility can accommodate 26‒28 beamlines in the two storage rings and in the extension of the linear accelerator.

  MAX IV site

  MAX IV publications

• PTB – Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

  

  The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is the National Metrology Institute of Germany with scientific and technical service tasks. PTB measures with the highest accuracy and reliability – metrology as the core competence. PTB stands for progress and reliability in metrology for the benefit of society, trade and industry, and science.

  PTB has a worldwide leading position in the use of synchrotron radiation for metrology. Its instru­men­tation which is unique in Europe covers the spectral range from terahertz to extreme ultra-violet (EUV) at the PTB’s own electron storage ring Metrology Light Source (MLS). The MLS is designed and built to meet dedicated demands for metrology. It is located in the vicinity of the BESSY II storage ring facility in Berlin-Adlershof and started operation in 2008. Already since 1999, in the PTB laboratory at BESSY II, dedicated experimental stations are used for X-ray metrology. At its experimental stations, PTB offers a broad spectrum of services, from calibrations via contract research to com­prehensive metrological system solutions re­alised in cooperation with partners from indus­try and research.

  PTB site

• National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS

  

  The SOLARIS synchrotron is the most modern and largest multidisciplinary research tool in Poland. Moreover, its outstanding capabilities place it firmly at the cutting edge of devices of this type in the world. It was created as a result of an unprecedented collaboration between the National Synchrotron Radiation Centre and the MAX IV Laboratory, a research facility hosted by Lund University in Sweden. Thus SOLARIS is a replica of one of the two synchrotrons in Lund. Its storage ring consists of 12 identical Double-Bend Achromat (DBA) cells. The typical DBA cell contains two bending magnets flanked with strong focusing quadrupoles and sextupoles. In order to reduce the number of magnets, a few magnet functions have been combined and integrated into one solid iron block within a cell. This innovative technology makes it possible to obtain a very low emittance electron beam circulating in the machine of a relatively small size.

  SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre functions as a part of Jagiellonian University. The Centre has been opened since the 21^st of September 2015 and it is the first synchrotron in Poland and the only one in East and Central Europe.

  SOLARIS site

• SOLEIL Synchrotron

  

  SOLEIL is the French synchrotron facility, located on the Saclay Plateau near Paris, with 29 beamlines in operation. It is a multi-disciplinary instrument and a research laboratory, whose mission is to run research programs using synchrotron radiation, to develop state-of-the-art instrumentation on the beamlines, and to make those available to the scientific community. SOLEIL, a unique tool for both academic research and industrial applications across a wide range of disciplines including physics, biology, chemistry, environmental and earth sciences, etc., is used by over 5 000 researchers coming from France and abroad. It is based on a state-of-the-art 3rd generation 2.75 GeV synchrotron source, both in terms of brilliance and stability, designed to cover a very wide range of techniques from infrared to hard x-rays.

  SOLEIL site

  SOLEIL publications