The New Highlight in Switzerland's Research Infrastructures
SwissFEL is a 740-meter-long X-ray free-electron laser facility delivering extremely intense X-ray pulses with femtosecond to attosecond pulse durations. Commissioned in 2016, SwissFEL is a user facility open to the international science community that provides unique imaging and spectroscopy capabilities with the potential to observe ultrafast processes on the attosecond timescale with atomic-scale resolution. In comparison to other X-ray free electron lasers worldwide, SwissFEL excels in instrumentation and detector technology, synchronization, and stability.
SwissFEL features two main beamlines, the Aramis branch for hard X-rays and Athos branch for soft X-rays, which currently support five endstations, with a sixth under construction. The endstations serve the broader areas of biological, chemical, and materials sciences as well as atomic and condensed matter physics and non-linear X-ray science.
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X-rays show how quasiparticles interact in solids
Thanks to a new experimental technique at SwissFEL, researchers uncover the interplay between electronic, magnetic, and lattice excitations in a solid.
A window on a cold quantum world
At SwissFEL, scientists get a rare glimpse into the quantum states that emerge at extremely low temperatures.
Taking the fear out of cancer
Researchers at PSI are developing new technologies and drugs to eliminate tumours more effectively: with greater precision and personalised approaches
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