Performing research & development in a coordinated manner for the League of European Accelerator-Based Photon Sources (LEAPS, https://leaps-initiative.eu/) allows a more efficient use of resources and faster technology innovation. Facilitating partnership with industry underpins Europe’s technological sovereignty and realizes synergies across sectors. The project partners have initiated six...
Undulators are X-ray sources widely used in synchrotron storage rings and free-electron laser (FEL) facilities. The development of undulators has a long tradition at KIT, dating back to the 1990s. With the commercial availability of low-temperature superconductors (LTS), a new type of undulator was born, the superconducting undulator (SCU). Compared to conventional cryogenic permanent magnet...
The operation of diffraction gratings in the EUV range frequently requires structures with heights in the range of a few nanometres. This is challenging to achieve via conventional etch processes, as those are often characterized by high rates of material removal. Hence, it is necessary to develop methods for fast and cost-efficient fabrication of such gratings. For this purpose, we utilize...
Nowadays, the overuse of fossil fuel has brought up the urgency to efficient energy conversion and green energy consumption, which gives significance to high-value-added electrochemical reactions, such as hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CRR), nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR), and C–N coupling reactions. The application...
Many years to decades can pass from the time when a new analytical method is for the first time demonstrated until the time of its widespread use for application experiments. For a successful transfer of knowledge and technology, this period must be marked by methodological development, proof-of-concept projects in different fields as well as training of people.
In the field of X-rays, the...
