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Scientific Highlights: Research Division "Photon Science"

19 September 2023
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3D insights into an innovative manufacturing process

Media Releases Future Technologies

3D printing for creating complex shapes

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24 August 2023
(Image: Schofield / Constantinou)

Unveiling ultra-thin electron liquids in silicon

Soft X-rays enable scientists to visualise non-invasively the electronic properties of ultra-thin dopant layers buried within semiconductor wafers.

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21 August 2023
Christian Wäckerlin

“Molecular chains could be useful for the electronics of the future”

Future Technologies Micro- and Nanotechnology Fundamentals of Nature

Christian Wäckerlin talks about fundamental research into novel nanowires and their potential applications.

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19 July 2023
Michal Rawlik (links), Erstautor der Veröffentlichung, und Marco Stampanoni hoffen, die Brustkrebsdiagnostik mit dem neunen Verfahren entscheidend verbessern zu können.

Earlier detection of breast cancer

Media Releases Health Innovation

3D X-rays can improve breast cancer screening.

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22 June 2023
Ganter

A metal alloy like a sponge

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities SLS 2.0

Once the vacuum chambers for the SLS 2.0 upgrade are the right shape, they still need a special surface coating.

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15 June 2023
René Sieber

A six-metre high oven

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities SLS 2.0

The most complicated vacuum chambers for the SLS 2.0 upgrade are being built in the PSI workshop.

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13 June 2023
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Progress of the X06DA-PXIII beamline upgrade: First light in the optics hutch

On June 7, 2023, the PXIII project team successfully shone the first light into the optics hutch at the upgraded X06DA-PXIII beamline. It is an essential first step for testing new hardware and software solutions that will be implemented at SLS2.0.

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13 June 2023
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Tender X-rays show how one of nature’s strongest bonds breaks

Short flashes of an unusual kind of X-ray light at SwissFEL and SLS bring scientists closer to developing better catalysts to transform the greenhouse gas methane into a less harmful chemical.

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9 June 2023
Werkstücke

500 vacuum chambers for the new ring

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities SLS 2.0

Making the tube through which the electrons will race after the SLS 2.0 upgrade.

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