Student engagement at MAX IV with MATRAC School

The school’s name, MATRAC, is an acronym for ‘materials’ and Röntgen-Ångström Cluster (RÅC), a German-Swedish collaboration designed to strengthen materials science and structural biology research through use of neutron and synchrotron sources. The…

Photoluminescence end station

…fast detector for time-resolved measurements. In usual operation conditions, the bunch length is ~700 ps and the time window between the bunches is 10 ns. To increase the time window…

IT Environment at BioMAX

The following is a summary of the IT facilities for BioMAX users. Click on each of the titles below to expand the contents. Beamline Computers chevron_right BioMAX has several Linux…

XRD@Balder

The collaborative project between Balder and Chalmers University, Göteborg, is aiming to develop and implement (in-situ) X-ray diffraction capabilities simultaneously with X-ray spectroscopy in one experimental setup with sub-second time…

Beamline optics

…(placed inside 5m straight section) Accessible Polarisations Linear (inc. Horizontal), Elliptical, Circular Beamline Optics The beamline shares a Collimated Plane Grating Monochromator (cPGM) between two branchlines. Hence only one endstation…

Olof Karis becomes Director for MAX IV

Olof Karis, former Interim Director of MAX IV, has been appointed as the Director of MAX IV following an open recruitment process and the recommendation of the MAX IV Board….

User Meeting

The 36th MAX IV User Meeting will occur on 13–15 January 2025 in Lund, Sweden. More information will follow. The programme from the previous User Meeting – the 35th edition…