Calls

There were two open calls during 2023 for applications to PRISMAS during a time window of two months: March-April and September-October. The third call will be open in July-August 2024….

Acknowledgement and References

…P., Hoh, S. W., Hough, M. A., Jenkins, H. T., Jimenez, E., Joosten, R. P., Keegan, R. M., Keep, N., Krissinel, E. B., Kolenko, P., Kovalevskiy, O., Lamzin, V. S.,…

Organization

…grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in collaboration with the Swedish research universities Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology, Karlstad University, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,…

Governance

MAX IV Laboratory is a Swedish national laboratory hosted by Lund University (Swedish Code of Statutes SFS 1994 946 / SFS 2011 1567). Lund University is the legal entity of the laboratory. The…

Interim Science Director Joachim Schnadt begins at MAX IV

…paving a path to begin work at MAX-lab. Much of Joachim’s work has been with synchrotron-based electron spectroscopies and instrument and method development, including the goal APXPS system he envisioned,…

History

…rings were closed in 2015 to open the door for the new MAX IV facility. A history of synchrotrons in brief 1944 Russian physicists Dmitri Ivanenko and Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk predict the existence of synchrotron…

Accelerator Documentation – peer reviewed articles

…low-emittance storage ring and its usage for X-ray absorption spectroscopy J. Synchrotron Rad. 29, 462  Published March 2022 Konstantin Klementiev, Hamed Tarawneh, and Pedro Fernandes Tavares https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577521012844 Beam-based characterization of…

Optics

…the two KB mirrors have been published by Johansson et al. (2021). The high precision alignment procedure for the KB mirror system has been published by Kahnt et al. (2022)….

Beamline optics

Overview The beamline is sourced by a quasi-periodic elliptically polarizing undulator (qEPU). A toroidal mirror M1 collects the diverging beam from the undulator and collimates it vertically (in the dispersive…