Practicals
List of beamlines where the practicals will be held, divided by the student group. The links will bring you to the official webpages with relevant info on the instrumentation.
--- Session A: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER ---
Group A1
| Day | Time | Facility | Beamline | Experiment | |
| March 17th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | Nanospectroscopy | Imaging surfaces and thin films using photoemission electron microscopy. | |
| March 18th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | ALOISA | Light-induced modification of the energy level alignment at organic heterojunctions. | |
| March 19th | 9.30am-12.00am | Fermi | TIMER | Nanoscale thermal transport. |
Group A2
| Day | Time | Facility | Beamline | Experiment | |
| March 17th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | SAXS | Self Assembly of mesoporous materials (MCM-41); in situ experiments of the formation highly ordered hexagonal structures. | |
| March 18th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | MCX | Applications of powder diffraction. | |
| March 19th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | XAFS | Short-range order in crystalline, amorphous, liquid, and supercooled germanium probed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. |
Group A3
| Day | Time | Facility | Beamline | Experiment | |
| March 17th | 9.30am-12.00am | Fermi | TeraFERMI | THz induced birefringence in z-cut quartz. | |
| March 18th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | APE-HE | Voltage control of magnetism: an in-situ x-ray magnetic circular dichroism investigation. | |
| March 19th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | APE-LE | Probing electronic structure of quantum materials by spin- and angle- resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. |
--- Session B: BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS ---
| Day | Time | Facility | Beamline | Experiment | |
| March 17th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | SISSI | Chemical analysis with micro and nano infrared spectroscopy. | |
| March 18th | 9.30am-12.00am | Elettra | XRD2 | Structural characterization of biomolecules using XRD. | |
| March 19th | 9.30am-12.00am | Labs | SYRMEP+NANOLAB | Tissue stiffness determination via AFM nano-indentation. |
