X-ray eyes on artifact from shipwreck Gribshunden

…coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Secrets of medieval armour A length of chain mail links after conservation. Credit: Blekinge Museum One of the most well-preserved warships of that era, the…

PyMCA XRF imaging guide

…conda install -c conda-forge pymca silx. The conda installation is hosted at https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pymca Experimental data from NanoMAX is stored in a raw directory. However, the raw data is not readily…

Data Access

…to use silx view (http://www.silx.org/doc/silx/latest/install.html) which is available on the control computers. As the area detector data is compressed using a bit-shuffle algorithm, it is necessary to install hdf5plugin (https://pypi.org/project/hdf5plugin/)….

SINCRYS – Single (micro) crystal X-ray diffraction

…found in organic molecular crystals, inorganic materials and hybrid organic-inorganic compounds. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction is a routine technique nowadays and the focus of the instrument will be on high-throughput solutions,…

COHERENCE 2024

…Foundation and the City of Helsingborg, and Dectris, JJ X-ray, and LINXS. See the programme and speakers, and register at the event website (early bird registration open until March 20)….

Research done at MAX IV contributes to CIGS solar cell world record

(2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202301018 J. Keller et al., High-concentration silver alloying and steep back-contact gallium grading enabling copper indium gallium selenide solar cell with 23.6% efficiency, Nat Energy (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01472-3…

Seminars

Below is the list of scientific seminar series at MAX IV or co-organised with MAX IV. Further organised seminars and invited speakers outside of the below list are listed below…

Diffraction station

…8keV, 3×1010 at 10keV, 8×109 at 14keV The flux at the sample position depends on energy, see Beamline Optics and doi.org/10.1364/OE.386068 2-circle Goniometer Theta: stroke [-5, 90] deg, resolution: 10-4 deg Phi: stroke [-180, 180]

Guides and Checklists

…technique to measure XAFS. The physical location of the energy dispersive 7-element fluorescence detectors (SDD and Ge) is fixed 90 degree to the beam (sample in 45 degree), while the…