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Balder beamline performance (updated 2024-02-05) Technique Primary: XAS (XANES/EXAFS), XES Secondary: XRD, XRF Beam size Focused H 50 x V 50 µm2 (Si111), (Si311) Slits close to sample to reach…

IT Environment at BioMAX

…from the beamline computers or biomax-remote, but it is possible to log in to it remotely from the users’ home computer. Please refer to these instructions. In July 2024 the…

Beamline optics

The ForMAX beamline is equipped with two horizontally deflecting monochromators: either a “high-resolution” double crystal monochromator (FMB Oxford) or a “high-flux” double multilayer monochromator (Axilon). The former is the standard…

Experimental station

The experimental station is an in-house design, tailored to the specific needs of ForMAX’s user community. A key feature of ForMAX is the combination of full-field tomography and (scanning) SWAXS….

CoSAXS

…Upcoming proposal call The next call for proposals (closing March 6th 2024) will offer SAXS and SAXS/WAXS. Please contact beamline staff  well before the deadline to discuss your proposal. Presentation of the CoSAXS…

Call extension for several PRISMAS PhD application

“We are very excited about the applications we have received so far and hopefully with this extended deadline, applicants will have more time to prepare and submit their best application…

User Meeting

…in Lund, Sweden. More information will follow. The programme from the previous User Meeting – the 35th edition in 2024 – is still available through the menu on this webpage….

ForMAX

ForMAX allows multiscale and multimodal structural characterization from nm to mm length scales by combining full-field tomographic imaging, small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering (SWAXS), and scanning SWAXS imaging in a…

The dawning of new interpretation for RIXS spectra

There is consensus among physicists that strict parity selectivity is required in dipole approximation with soft X-rays in the field of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). Meaning, when photons hit…