Flagship beamline ID03 welcomes first users

Inauguration and first users for ID03 beamline

They were the first users, but already knew the beamline inside out. “We’ve dedicated two years of my ERC Advanced Grant to contribute to the design of the new beamline”, explains Henning Poulsen, leader of the team and Professor at Technical University of Denmark (DTU). “It is very reassuring to see that the technique we’ve developed with the ESRF can answer our questions on materials science”, he adds. The contribution of DTU has resulted from three ERC (European Research Council) grants: two Advanced Grant led by Henning Poulsen and one Starting Grant led by Hugh Simons.

Henning Poulsen (right) and his team, with Carsten Detlefs (in the background)

Facts

The new ID03 beamline is in full swing this month. On 23 May, the members of the Scientific Advisory Committe (SAC) inaugurated this new beamline dedicated to dark field X-ray microscopy, a unique technique that is not available anywhere else in the world. And earlier this month, researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) were the first users working in metals under stress.