Practical information

…to your assigned Local Contact or be placed in the “safety box” just outside the main entrance to MAX IV. An email will be sent to you from the reception…

Inspecting Processing Results using EXI

EXI provides a web interface to the data collection logs and the results from automated data processing pipelines launched after a data collection is complete. A plot showing the number

Data access and processing

…will be saved with the name scan-####.h5 where #### is a sequential number. It is important to keep track of this number and the corresponding sample/experiment, e.g. by using the…

A record year for research at MAX IV

…proposals from national and international researchers who applied to use MAX IV this autumn. The total number of proposals submitted in the 2023 Open Calls (717) was 14% higher than…

Prepare samples for the Sample Exchanger

The MAX IV sample exchanger currently supports only samples mounted in UniPucks. UniPucks can be purchased from a number of vendors, but there are also some available at the beamline….

In-situ plate experiments

…setup. Therefore it is better to book separate shifts for this type of experiment (not on the same beamtime as standard cryo-data collection) Plate types supported chevron_right So far the…

User information

contacting of samples on the A-station measurement manipulator is no longer possible. The receiver clamping has been redesigned to be more robust and more forgiving of sample plate thickness variations….

Detector operations and support

At MAX IV, we have hybrid photon counting detectors from Dectris, XSpectrum and Quantum Detectors, some of which have been custom-made such as the XSpectrum Lambda with centre hole and…

Supporting X-ray techniques

In addition to the main methods of Balder, XAS and XES, we provide two secondary techniques at the beamline. Press the button below and you can see examples of XRD…