Beamline optics

…collimating mirror (M1) At 24 m, 1° incidence angle, Au & Rh-coated, cylindrical, water-cooled Monochromator (c-PGM) At 26 m, plane grating monochromator, 1200 l/mm, blaze 1°, Au & Rh coating…

Beamline optics

…gas absorption cell: M1M2PG1PG2M3 (RIXS)M3 (APXPS)M4 (RIXS)M4 (APXPS) Shape Cylindrical Plane Plane Plane Toroidal Toroidal Elliptical Toroidal Deflection Horizontal (towards ring) Vertical (up) Vertical (down) Vertical (down) Horizontal (towards ring)…

Open Day

…for everyone curious about MAX IV. The next Open Day at MAX IV will be September 21, 2024 from 9:00 to 16:00. Tickets for Open Day are free of charge…

Previous SCIENTÍFika

…luminescent Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites Nano-Crystals (CLHP-NCs), CsPbX3 X=Cl,Br,I, are a promising new-comer as solution-deposited absorbing layers in solar cells with power conversion efficiencies reaching 20%. CLHP-NCs are cheap to produce…

Surface & Material Science branch

…depending on the temperature range of an experiment: 1. Mo-based manipulator head for better heating. Radiative heating by filament (up to 800 °C), e-beam heating (up to 1200 °C, but…

Sample environments and equipment

All sample positioners and sample environments for the PXRD2D instrument are aligned using the main hexapod. Specifications of the hexapod can be found here: https://symetrie.fr/en/hexapods/breva/. The hexapod can translate up to…

A cloudy route for shipping in the Arctic

As the planet warms, a unifying challenge will be determining ways to reduce human impact from use of natural resources. New technologies and ‘greener’ resourcing are being utilised and their…

Beamline optics

…harmonic of the EPU Monochromator (cPGM) Collimated plane grating monochromator, vertical dispersion, internally water cooled plane mirror and side-cooled gratings Energy bandwidth 50-100 x 10-3 ΔE/E (1200 l/mm, 2400 l/mm)…

Honeycomb borophene: myth or reality?

…the substrate, while x-ray absorption spectroscopy with angular resolution allowed them to access the unoccupied electronic structure of this material and probe in-plane (s*) and out-of-plane (p*) electronic sub-systems separately….

Experimental station

…common Varied Line Spacing (VLS) grating design. A collimating parabolic mirror is used in the horizontal plane, increasing transmission without requiring a very broad detector. Energy (wavelength) range 250 –…