The PHELIX beamline construction continues. In October 2018 the light source for the beamline – an elliptical polarization undulator designed by Kyma – was installed in the storage ring.
In November construction of the an optical hutch ended. The hutch will protect people from radiation hazards. In the near future it will house the first optical components of the beamline. The next planned steps are the installation of the front-end, i.e. the part of the beamline situated in the storage ring tunnel after the source (January 2019), the installation of the beamline with optical components for X-rays (February-March 2019) and the installation of the end-station (May-June 2019 ).
The PHELIX beamline will use soft X-rays. Its end station will enable a wide range of spectroscopic and absorption studies characterized by different surface sensitivity. In addition to collecting standard high-resolution spectra, it will allow, for example, to map the band structure in three dimensions and to detect electron spin in three dimensions. Users will, therefore, be able to conduct research on new materials, thin films and multilayers systems, catalysts and biomaterials, surfaces of bulk compounds, spin polarized surface states, as well as chemical reactions taking place on the surface.
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