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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Rendre le cancer moins terrifiant
Les scientifiques du PSI développent de nouvelles techniques et de nouveaux médicaments afin d’éliminer les tumeurs de façon précise et personnalisée.
Hypotenseur commutable à la lumière
De l’arrêt à l’activation: des scientifiques du PSI ont observé comment l’effet d’un médicament contre l’hypertension artérielle pouvait être activé et désactivé en exposant ce dernier à la lumière.
Filming a vitamin B12 photoreceptor in action
SwissFEL shows the molecular events that occur when a vitamin B12 photoreceptor absorbs light
Contact
PSI User Office
Paul Scherrer Institute
building WBBC
CH-5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
+41 56 310 46 66
useroffice@psi.ch
Office hours:
Monday through Friday from 8:00-11:30 and 12:30-17:00
otherwise please contact us per email