Safety requirements for employees

In order to access the MAX IV facility you must study the current safety information, and pass a safety test on the subject. This applies to all persons who are…

IT Environment at BioMAX

…X11 display Since July 2023 all the beamline workstations are running Rocky Linux. On the beamline computers, we recommend changing the default window manager setting to the Classic X11 display…

SEDS Projects

…of a sample against new cutting tools. Completed – Collaboration with LTH, KTH, LTU, Thermo Calc, Sandvik Materials, Ovaco Sweden AB, Seco Tools AB, Sandvik Rock Processing, and Outokumpu Stainless AB…

Sustainability

…the NEG coating in the storage rings make the MAX IV less energy-consuming than any other synchrotron. Still, research facilities as big as MAX IV do use a lot of…

Meet the students

…rare-earth-free permanent magnets  Back home in Austria, I studied Materials Science at Montanuniversität Leoben. As a student worker I gained experience with characterization of steels and coatings. A big part…

A cloudy route for shipping in the Arctic

…potential effects are not always clear. In the busy maritime sector, these unknowns stand to have a big impact on ocean health. The process of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation…

MAX IV involvement in European projects

…charge of specific tasks in other work packages (Advanced elliptically polarising undulator (EPU) for soft X-ray – WP6, Light source procurement and Towards the Big Science Business Forum platform –…

STM experimental station

…microscope is optimized for resolving atomic arrangement of the surfaces, but imaging on a bigger scale is also possible. Our system is UHV-based (ultra-high vacuum, p<1E-10mbar), meaning that no liquid…