MAX IV Laboratory
Sweden’s synchrotron X-ray facility, the MAX IV Laboratory, is a national research infrastructure for research in fields such as biology, physics, chemistry, environmental science, geology, engineering, pharmaceuticals and cultural heritage, making it possible to study materials and molecules down to the atomic level. The properties of the X-ray beams at the facility depend largely on the design of magnets developed at MAX IV. The facility consists of a linear accelerator which ultimately will have a hard X-ray beamline for short (down to 100 femtoseconds) and very intense X-ray pulses and two storage rings operated with energies of 3.0 GeV and 1.5 GeV. Once fully deployed, the facility will have room for nearly 30 beamlines at the two storage rings.
Lund University hosts the MAX IV laboratory and a large number of higher education institutions co-finance the facility, including Uppsala University.
At Uppsala University, there is a Center for Photon Science that works for collaboration in the development and use of Photon Science.
The Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI) funds this research infrastructure, which the Swedish Research Council considers to be in the national interest.
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Contact
Olle Björneholm, Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
