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The detailed development plan for Science Village gets a green light from the Government of Sweden which means that the construction of important support infrastructure for MAX IV and ESS can now start. “This decision is obviously good for us. We welcome it and we have been waiting for a long time. We are
Earlier this summer, Lund University campus was filled with hopeful students, proud families, and busy professors. It was graduation season which meant that students were cashing in their hard work in order to receive new titles like, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy, many of whom had been taught by
Recently, huge forklifts have been making their way through the experiment hall transporting the heavy lead walls that are making up the experiment and optics hutches for one of MAX IV’s highest energy beamlines. DanMAX is under construction and the beamline team is expecting to receive its first users around early 2020, says one
The vacuum chambers of MAXIV are only 22 mm of diameter; the chamber size was chosen in order to fit inside the compact magnets of the storage ring. Due to the small diameter of the chamber, the conventional way of pumping using lumped pumps is not efficient nor practical, accordingly, the vacuum system of
Science@FELs 2018 in Stockholm For the fourth time the Science@FELs conference was organized, this time in Stockholm in the AlbaNova University Center at Stockholm University between 24 and 27 of June. The preceding events took place in Hamburg, at PSI and in Trieste. Science@FELs 2018 is a conference by FELs of Europe and focuses
A big milestone was reached for the MAX IV Linear Accelerator end of May. The electron bunches accelerated in the linac was compressed to a time duration below 100 femtoseconds (fs). That means that they were shorter than 1*10^-13s. In fact, we could measure a pulse duration as low as 65 fs FWHM. The
“BioMAX serial crystallography setup using a High Viscosity Extrusion (HVE) injector specially designed for the BioMAX endstation by Bruce Doak of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, and fabricated at that institute.” BioMAX has successfully performed the first serial crystallography experiments at the beamline. This new method is performed at room temperature
A research team, including scientists from MAX IV have reported in Nature Communications that the quest for atomic perfection in semiconductor devices was based on an oversimplified model. Semiconductors are the fundamental building blocks of all modern electronics. Improvements to these materials could affect everything from the clock on our microwave to supercomputers used
Teresia Olsson defended her thesis this week titled “Timing Modes for the MAX IV Storage Rings”. The defense took place at MAX IV Laboratory, led by her opponent Dr. Atoosa Meseck from Institute Accelerator Physics at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin. At the beginning of her Ph.D. studies, Teresia was given the task to study
Hanna Isaksson, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Lund University and a user at MAX IV Laboratory has been elected new member in the Young Academy of Sweden for the period 2018–2023 – I started familiarise myself with synchrotron research when I came to Lund in 2011. I study musculoskeletal tissue biomechanics, primarily bone, cartilage