European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF ) is a multinational research institute, based in Grenoble ( France). It operates the largest purpose built for research using synchrotron synchrotron in Europe, and the world's third-largest of its kind The scope of the ESRF electron storage ring is 844 m ..

The ESRF has its headquarters on the same site with the Institute Laue -Langevin (ILL ) and other institutes, the so-called EPN Science Campus. It employs 600 people and makes annually about 3,500 scientists research on the 49 beamlines. It is funded by a consortium of 18 European countries. France and Germany are the most important partners and are each on for more than a quarter of the total budget.

The main task of the ESRF is to establish monitoring stations and to operate and make these research groups from public institutions and private companies for their own purposes accessible. ESRF is thus primarily a "user facility", ie the service order is in the foreground. Own research is also operated, but is always in connection with the service contract.

Activities focus on a variety of analytical methods:

  • Protein structure analysis
  • Other Crystallography
  • X-ray diffraction, including small-angle scattering from surfaces and volumes,
  • X-ray spectroscopy of various kinds,
  • X-ray micro - and nano- tomography, that is, Computed with microscopic resolution,
  • Infrared microscopy.

History

The first plans for the construction of the ESRF were carried out in the 70s. In October 1984 Germany and France beat together before the project, other countries joined in the following years the project. Construction began on January 1, 1988. On February 17, 1992 electrons were first injected into the storage ring and for the first time reached the planned beam current of 100 mA in June 1992. The official inauguration took place on 30 September 1994.

In 2008, the ESRF Board ( "Council") approved an extensive renovation program ( " ESRF Upgrade" ). The first phase (2009-2015) of this program has a financial volume of about 177 million euros, of which 74 million will be funded from the regular operating budget of ESRF; for the rest, Member Countries Special funds available. About the application made by the ESRF Management application for funding for a second phase upgrade that will extend into the year 2018, the Supervisory Board has not yet decided.

The ESRF administration building

Look at the synchrotron

A beamline of the ESRF

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