
MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope
Article published in CERN COURIER August 12 2016. Sweden’s MAX IV facility is the first storage ring to employ a multi-bend achromat. Mikael Eriksson and Dieter Einfeld describe how this will produce smaller and more stable X-ray beams, taking synchrotron science closer to the X-ray diffraction limit. Since the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen