Topic summary
MAX IV
Extracted from the Wikipedia article MAX IV Laboratory.
MAX IV is a synchrotron light source facility in Lund, Sweden, in the northeastern quarter Brunnshög as part of an innovation district including ESS and Science Village. MAX IV uses synchrotron light to examine materials at the micrometre and nanometre length scale, and in the nanosecond and picosecond time scale to understand their chemical and physical properties. The material research conducted at MAX IV has broad applications in medical, technical, biological, agricultural, industrial, and cultural fields. It became operational in 2016 and is the world's first fourth-generation synchrotron light source. MAX IV has one linear accelerator, linac, with one beamline, and two storage rings with 5 and 11 beamlines, respectively. The radiation hits the samples in experiment stations at the end of each beamline and is examined by diffraction, spectroscopy, or imaging techniques to determine physical structure, chemical composition, dynamics, and other properties of the samples.