Speaker: Salvador Ferrer, ALBA Synchrotron Lightsource
ALBA is the synchrotron light source in Spain located in the Barcelona area. It is a third generation 3 GeV machine and since about two years, seven beamlines are in operation for external users. In the talk I will describe the main characteristics of the project, and mention some results of general interest concerning optical developments and also beamline control issues.
A description of the beamlines and some representative recent results will also be presented ranging from in-operando chemical reactions investigated with X ray absorption, magnetic coupling ferro/ antiferro in nanoparticles monitored with XMCD,cryo-tomography of biological cells obtained with a soft X ray microscope and also magnetic domain imaging of thin films.
