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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
Note: Soft X-ray transmission polarizer based on ferromagnetic thin films. Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Mar;89(3):036103. doi: 10.1063/1.5018396. Müller L1, Hartmann G2, Schleitzer S1, Berntsen MH3, Walther M1, Rysov R1, Roseker W1, Scholz F2, Seltmann J2, Glaser L2, Viefhaus J2, Mertens K4, Bagschik K5, Frömter R5, De Fanis A6, Shevchuk I6, Medjanik K7, Öhrwall G7,
Structural modelling of the DNAJB6 oligomeric chaperone shows a peptide-binding cleft lined with conserved S/T-residues at the dimer interface. Söderberg CAG1, Månsson C2, Bernfur K2, Rutsdottir G2, Härmark J3, Rajan S4, Al-Karadaghi S2, Rasmussen M5, Höjrup P5, Hebert H3, Emanuelsson C6. Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 26;8(1):5199. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23035-9. Author information 1 MAX IV Laboratory, Lund
Synthesis of armchair graphene nanoribbons from the 10,10′-dibromo-9,9′-bianthracene molecules on Ag(111): the role of organometallic intermediates. Simonov KA1,2,3, Generalov AV4, Vinogradov AS5, Svirskiy GI5, Cafolla AA6, McGuinness C7, Taketsugu T8,9, Lyalin A9, Mårtensson N10, Preobrajenski AB11. Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 22;8(1):3506. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21704-3. Author information 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516,
This week’s research highlight is all about our new FemtoMAX beamline as well as X-ray scattering, featuring work from the whole FemtoMAX team, Thomás Plivelic and Marianne Liebi. FemtoMAX – an X-ray beamline for structural dynamics at the short-pulse facility of MAX IV J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25 H. Enquist1, A. Jurgilaitis1, A. Jarnac1,2, Å.U. J. Bengtsson2, M. Burza1, F.
The FemtoMAX beamline facilitates studies of the structural dynamics of materials. Such studies are of fundamental importance for key scientific problems related to programming materials using light, enabling new storage media and new manufacturing techniques, obtaining sustainable energy by mimicking photosynthesis, and gleaning insights into chemical and biological functional dynamics. The FemtoMAX beamline utilizes
Fats being released from cookers such as deep fat fryers form into surprisingly complex droplets that may affect the formation of clouds and how the planet regulates heat. Do #cooking fats affect cloud formation? New research from @UniofReading and @UniofBath in @NatureComms. An international team using 2 #Synchrotrons @MAXIVLaboratory and @DiamondLightSou shows importance
Leaves on a Gingko tree growing on the inner yard of MAX IV Laboratory in Lund. By using infrared micro-spectroscopy at beamline D7 situated at the MAX III storage ring (closed December 2015) scientists from Lund University, Vilnius University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm have been able to identify molecular signatures of fossil
At MAX IV we make synchrotron radiation, which is similar to ordinary sun light or dentist X-rays, depending on the needs of the different experiments. The light source at MAX IV is however millions of times stronger than our sun. The light is created in the beginning of a long and straight tube. The tube,
Chemists at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, have studied how nanoparticles self-assemble. By using synchrotron radiation at MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, they are able to follow how nanocubes come together and form large and ordered structures inside