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.
Information
Antipertensivi con interruttore luminoso
Da spento ad acceso: i ricercatori dell'Istituto Paul Scherrer PSI hanno osservato come la potenza d’azione di un farmaco contro l’ipertensione possa essere modificata tramite l'uso della luce.
Filming a vitamin B12 photoreceptor in action
SwissFEL shows the molecular events that occur when a vitamin B12 photoreceptor absorbs light
Il laser a raggi X svizzero rivela la danza nascosta degli elettroni
Una nuova tecnica a raggi X presso lo SwissFEL (il laser ad elettroni liberi a raggi X svizzero, sito presso l'Istituto Paul Scherrer PSI) rivela come gli elettroni interagiscono tra loro, con la possibilità di mostrare perché le informazioni quantistiche sfuggono così facilmente.
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