DESY operates one of the world’s brightest storage-ring-based X-ray radiation sources: PETRA III offers outstanding opportunities for scientific user experiments since 2009. Based on this, the present beamline portfolio encompasses key instrumental and methodological capabilities that enable high-resolution diffraction and inelastic spectroscopy, correlation spectroscopy and imaging with coherent X-rays, or high-resolution X-ray microscopy and nano-analysis. The high brilliance particularly benefits researchers investigating very small samples or requiring tightly collimated and very short-wavelength X-rays for their experiments, like for the instance investigations of solar cells, catalysts, and batteries under working conditions.
Energy range from ~150 eV to 200 keV ; brilliance exceeding 1021 ph/(s mm2 mrad2 0.1% BW).
Together with the free-electron laser FLASH at DESY, PETRA III welcomes experiments in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and crystallography, materials and geological sciences as well as medical applications.
Specifications Energy:6.08 GeV Current:100 mA (top-up operation) Operational Beamlines:20 Horizontal emittance:1.2 nm rad Vertical emittance:0.01 nm rad
Call for proposals For standard access two calls per year will be issued with deadlines of 1 March and 1 September each for a six month period. >Read more
View PETRA III on wayforlight.eu The catalogue of European Lightsources
Examining written artefacts with x-rays 2023/04/27
Engineered wall paint could kill corona viruses 2023/03/08
Asteroid impact in slow motion 2023/02/07
