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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
A new five-axis parallel kinematic mirror unit has been developed for MAX IV soft X-ray beamlines. Its development and technical characteristics are now described in a peer-reviewed article. In an article published in March 2020 in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, a team from Uppsala University, MAX IV Laboratory, FMB Feinwerk und Messtechnik GmbH, and
During October, MAX IV had visits from both the Minister for Energy and Digital Development, Anders Ygeman and the Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation, Ibrahim Baylan. “It’s a pleasure and an honour to host these visits”, says Director IanMcNulty “because they give us the opportunity to show how MAX IV can contribute to solving
Matilda Ernkrans, Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research, did a tour of MAX IV as part of her visit to Lund on Tuesday 30 April. “We are very happy to welcome the new Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research and show her the versatility of this facility and the broad use it has
The spring call for proposals for eight beamlines at MAX IV closed 19 March with a total of 228 proposals from 28 countries. The number of applications is on par with proposals received when the former MAX-lab peaked, which shows that the demand from users is high as well as is their confidence in getting excellent tools
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
Photo by Steve Molloy, Head of Operations at MAX IV. Something monumental happened at MAX IV this week. For the first time in our history, The three accelerators at MAX IV simultaneously supplied light to 9 beamlines. Some of these beamlines are in commissioning and not accepting regular users yet. For up-to-date information on
Work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry with the support of the Helmholtz Association through the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY. MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden, European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 and the Academy of Finland. Remember doing titrations in chemistry class? Adding acid drop-by-drop
Claudia Struzzi and Nikolay Vinogradov working in the scanning tunneling microscopy laboratory at MAX IV Two projects have received funding from the Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning Atomic force microscopy at MAX IV for studies of novel carbon nanostructures and modern catalysts Alexei Preobrajenski, Jan Knudsen, Nikolay Vinogradov Scanning probe techniques such as