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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Einblicke in die kalte Quantenwelt
Am SwissFEL erhalten Forschende seltene Einblicke in Quantenzustände, die bei extrem niedrigen Temperaturen auftreten.
Dem Krebs den Schrecken nehmen
Forschende am PSI entwickeln neue Technologien und Medikamente, um Tumore effektiver zu beseitigen: präzise und personalisiert.
Blutdrucksenker mit Lichtschalter
Von aus zu an: PSI-Forschende haben beobachtet, wie sich die Wirkungsstärke eines Medikaments gegen Bluthochdruck mit Licht umschalten lässt.
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