The Beamline is under construction.
Project duration: June 2025 – December 2029
Updates for future users on ongoing basis: stay tuned!
TomoWISE is designed to be a state-of-the-art beamline completely dedicated to high-resolution full-field tomography of materials, exploiting the large penetration power of high energy X-rays. The beamline received funds from WISE and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in June 2025, and has entered the construction phase immediately after.
On a 3 GeV synchrotron storage ring, producing high flux X-ray beams from higher harmonics of an undulator above 45 keV is only made possible by the small emittance of a 4th generation source. TomoWISE is thus designed to exploit the brilliance of the beam produced at MAX IV for enhanced image contrast, fast acquisition and improved resolution in phase contrast imaging methods using parallel and divergent beams. By delivering a high photon flux between 20 keV and 65 keV, TomoWISE will dramatically expand the X-ray energy range currently available at MAX IV, thus enabling new research opportunities for the Swedish materials science community.
Timeline
The beamline construction project has started in June 2025 and is foreseen to be completed by the end of 2029, with the start of the User Operation (UO). The different scientific capabilities of the beamline will be developed and deployed in a progressive way within the duration of the project.
Updates will be published here on an ongoing basis, and will include short updates of the project and newly achieved milestones.
As of Today (29 April 2026):
- The two sources are in production
- Installation foreseen in Mid 2027 (3-pole Wiggler)) and Mid 2028 (Cryocooled Undulator)
- The lead hutch is in production
- Installation foreseen August 2026
- The Front End is in Final Design stage
- Installation foreseen Mid-2027