The initial MAX IV beamline program consists of seven beamlines with planned start of users operation in 2016. Funding for the seven beamlines has been provided by a joint effort of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation (400MSEK) and twelve Swedish Universities (162MSEK).
The beamline projects are up and running and as of December 2011 the first of many calls for tender has been issued.
The beamline program has emerged from a process involving the Swedish user community. It will provide Swedish and international natural sciences with cutting edge research infrastructures at the international forefront. The open access policy, with peer review of proposals and free-of-charge use, ensures that the resources are available to the entire community at all universities and for the best experiments.
The strong Swedish community in structural biology will be provided with cutting edge high-throughput capacities for macromolecular crystallography that far exceed those available today. Structure determination and structural dynamics investigations in a broader sense will be possible with ultra-high spatial resolution down to a few nanometers, with ultra-high temporal resolution in the low femtosecond regime and at fast scanning setups, serving a wide range of disciplines including material sciences, energy research, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, corrosion chemistry, nanotechnology, catalysis research, environmental sciences, cultural heritage, and basic physics and chemistry.
Electronic structure and chemical state analysis will be possible with unprecedented energy resolution and k-space resolution in all kind of sample environments including near-ambient and ambient sample conditions. Beside traditional applications in fields of physics and chemistry as corrosion and catalysis research or nano- and semiconductor research, users will be found in energy research, pharmacy, and molecular biology. Sweden has a long standing history of excellence in spectroscopy, with the beamlines at MAX IV it will sustain and strengthen this position.
Each and every beamline will provide a performance that is world-wide not available today – the ultra-high energy resolution, the ultra-high spatial resolution, the ultra-high time resolution – or very rarely available and therefore highly needed – the high k-space resolution, the fast scanning possibilities, the highthroughput structure determination or the (near-)ambient measurement facilities. The strong ties with the Swedish research community and their scientific and technical excellence will allow the realization of a beamline portfolio that is second to none in its level of ambition, in its timeliness, and the way it is tailored to meet the researchers needs.
BioMAX
A multipurpose high throughput beamline for macromolecular crystallography.
State-of-the art beam properties combined with a high level of automation (including remote data collection options) will ensure this beamline to become the beamline of choice for the majority of structural biology projects within Sweden and Scandinavia.
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VERITAS
A beamline for soft X-ray Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) with outstanding resolution and photon flux in the energy range of 275-1500 eV. Full control over energy, momentum and angular momentum transfer enables the exploration of fundamental excitations on an unprecedented level to obtain local electronic structure at selected atomic sites.
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HIPPIE
A state-of-the-art beamline for electron spectroscopy, in particular high pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HP-XPS), high pressure X-ray absorption spectroscopy (HP-XAS) as well as XPS and XAS in ultrahigh vacuum. The main objective of the beamline is to relax the vacuum constraints which traditionally have limited systems and processes that could be studied by electron spectroscopy methods. Compared to standard electron spectroscopy beamlines the scientific scope is expanded significantly.
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NanoMAX
A hard X-ray beamline for micro- and nanobeams that will take the full advantage of
MAX IV's exceptionally low emittance and the resulting coherence properties of the
X-ray beam. It will introduce a variety of new experimental tools for many different research communities in Sweden.
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FemtoMAX
A beamline situated on the extension of the linac to facilitate studies of the structure and dynamics of materials. The X-ray pulse length of 100 fs (ultimately 30 fs) combined with the experimental set-ups of FemtoMAX creates possibilities to obtain chemical as well as structural information with a time resolution that is unmatched by the other planned MAX IV beamline.
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ARPES
A beamline for angle resolved photo electron spectroscopy (ARPES) situated on the 1.5 GeV ring. Covering photon energies between 10-1000 eV but with emphasis on the lower energy range.
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XAS
A beamline for in-situ hard X-ray spectroscopy. Focused on a high flux of photons in a wide energy range. Possibility to perform time resolved experiments down to the milliseconds regime, and an experimental set-up allowing several kinds of measurements to be performed simultaneously.
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