About us

MAX IV Laboratory is a Swedish national laboratory providing scientists with the most brilliant X-rays for research with Lund University as the host university. The facility is funded primarily by…

Science at Balder

…(incoming X-ray minus emitted X-ray energy) versus the incoming energy. The 2D RXES/RIXS plane contains plenty of electronic information about your system that can be analysed in cuts with sharp…

XRD@Balder

…resolution. This project is framed in the exploration of new catalytic materials, their molecular function and ways to use them for environmental protection and chemical production without putting planetary boundaries…

Beamline optics

The MAXPEEM beamline (top figure) consists of an elliptically polarizing undulator as a light source (EPU 58) and a collimated plane grating monochromator (SX-700) with corresponding focusing and re-focussing optics…

PXRD2D: Powder diffraction with area detector

…and tilting the detector up to 45 degrees in the vertical scattering plane. The direct beam position can be placed anywhere on the detector surface (or outside the active area)….

SPECIES

…X-ray Emission Spectroscopy (XES) and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). The beamline has two branches that use a common elliptically polarizing undulator (EPU61) and a plane grating monochromator (PGM), providing…

SWAXS

…allow monitoring diffraction from cellulose fibrils/fibers in all directions of the scattering plane. Since many in-situ studies during material processing are foreseen, data acquisition times down to ms regime is…

Veritas

…it can continuously rotate (i.e. without breaking the vacuum) 120 degrees in the horizontal plane. The Vertias beamline supports great variety of experimental environments were a custom manipulator system with…