We make the invisible visible
Proteins are the building blocks of viruses, cells, and enzymes. Fully understanding them requires access to imaging their often very rapid motion. An international team of researchers have recently published a study showing that the ultrashort X-ray pulses of the FemtoMAX beamline are enough for making images of, in this case, stationery, protein crystals with
The FemtoMAX beamline team has successfully conducted their first time-resolved experiment with the MAX IV linac operating in 10 Hz mode. On the Thursday evening of December 3rd, the FemtoMAX beamline recorded their first ultrafast time-resolved scan with the MAX IV LINAC operating in 10 Hz mode. This is a tremendous milestone and when we
2019 was a landmark year for MAX IV Laboratory. Continuing the long-standing tradition of delivering innovative technical instruments and capabilities for x-ray science to the research community since MAX-lab was inaugurated in 1987, MAX IV broke new ground by opening five new beamlines to users, and bringing three more into the commissioning phase for
Image: FemtoMAX beamline at MAX IV A research group working with MAX IV’s FemtoMAX beamline has succeeded to slow the phase change from the solid to liquid state in the semiconductor, indium antimonide (InSb), by reducing the inherent vibrations between atoms. An important precursory step in the process was non-thermal melting of the sample, which
In a paper published in October 2019, researchers from different institutions came to MAX IV to study timing performance of scintillators, materials employed in applications such as cancer diagnosis. At FemtoMAX they achieved an instrumental time resolution of 38 picoseconds, something never recorder in literature before. FemtoMAX, the ultrafast beamline at MAX IV, is now
Image: participants at the MAX IV User Meeting gathered for the opening plenary session at the Scandic Star hotel in Lund. LUND—MAX IV hosted the 31st User Meeting at the Scandic Star hotel from 23-25 September. The theme this year was Developing MAX IV: with the users, for the users. Over 300 scientists, researchers,
Greger Hammarin talks about using electric fields to induce protein motion and capturing it with the short X-ray pulses at FemtoMAX. Your body contains a large variety of different proteins. They are big, complex molecules with diverse functions, from transporting oxygen in your blood to making your muscles contract. Many proteins change their shape and
A booklet has seen the light! It highlights the first phase beamlines funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) foundation which are now is gradually going into operation. The booklet is an attempt to visualise the quite challenging journey from the first ideas discussed more than a decade ago to beamlines that are now
From the big magnets to the gas bottles, laptop, and left behind coffee cups. The miniature model built by Jessica Lastow, one of our summer interns 2018, shows off the life at the only beamline located underground at MAX IV, FemtoMAX. FemtoMAX is a bit different than the other beamlines. Instead of being connected to
Advances in the world of physics often quickly lead to advances in the world of medical diagnostics. From the moment Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays he was using them to look through his wife’s hand. A lot of the physics principles at the foundation of MAX IV are also at the foundation of medical imaging technologies