User organisations

…Linköping University E-mail: lina.rogstrom@liu.se Saroj Prasad Dash, Chalmers University Research profile:https://www.chalmers.se/en/staff/Pages/saroj-dash.aspx E-mail: saroj.dash@chalmers.se Rainer Timm, Lund University E-mail: rainer.timm@sljus.lu.se Minna Patanen, University of Oulu Research profile:http://www.oulu.fi/university/researcher/minna-patanen E-mail: minna.patanen@oulu.fi Swedish Synchrotron…

Access modes

…please look here: https://www.maxiv.lu.se/user-access/call-for-proposals/ A standard beamtime allocation at FlexPES begins 08:00 Wednesday and ends 08:00 the following Monday (5 days). A single quantum of beamtime available for scheduling is…

PyMCA XRF imaging guide

…as a step-by-step guide with PyMCA screen shots. Note that this guide is not describing what is a good or less good fit. It is only intending to help you…

User information

Getting access As a rule, there are two proposal calls per year, one in the spring and one in the autumn. For the up-to-date information regarding the calls, please look…

MicroMAX

…focusing (beam size down to 5 micrometer). The commissioning of this functionality is on-going. We expect to open for general users in Q4 2023 but the exact date depends on…

X-Rays help the industry make chocolate even more enjoyable

…The experiment involves melting and recrystallizing fat in samples, each having different consistency. Ingredients are added stepwise to gradually increase the complexity in the sample series towards a mixture of…

Vacuum Technology, Instrumentation and Tools

…be regenerated by the means of thermal reactivation of the surface. MAX IV’s 3 GeV storage ring has vacuum chambers that are coated with NEG thin film nearly all along…

A toothy temporal map of Arctic climate change

…lines in the tusk. By mapping their spacing, we hope to obtain information on environmental conditions, for example, a very hard year food-wise should lead to less growth and then…