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.

**As a consequence of the energy crisis, the Board of Directors of Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste has decided to curtail accelerator operations in order to remain within the available budget. We will schedule only 50% of the normal user beamtime in the first semester of 2023 by prolonging throughout most of the winter months the usual January shutdown. Normal operations for both Elettra and FERMI will start again at the end of April and continue in May and June.''

We decided however to support HERCULES school also with practicals, which will be carried out at Elettra and FERMI laboratories operational with bench-top sources.''



--- Session A: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER ---

Group A1

Day Time Facility Beamline Experiment
March 21th 14.30pm-17.30pm Fermi TERAFERMI Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy experiment.
March 22th 14.30pm-17.30pm Elettra NANOSPECTROSCOPY Imaging and spectroscopy of thin films and 2D materials using SPELEEM
March 22th 09:30am-12.30pm Labs NANOINNOVATION LAB morphomechanical analysis of nanostructured samples with atomic force microscopy.

Group A2

Day Time Facility Beamline Experiment
March 21th 14.30pm-17.30pm Elettra XPRESS Extreme conditions & sample preparation: hands on!
March 22th 09:30am-12.30pm Elettra DXRL Fabrication of microfluidic circuits and diffraction gratings through UV lithography and soft-polymer casting
March 22th 14.30pm-17.30pm Elettra ALOISA XPS and UPS characterization of a ultra-thin organic film.

Group A3

Day Time Facility Beamline Experiment
March 21th 14.30pm-17.30pm Fermi T-REX Time-Resolved ARPES of quantum materials
March 22th 09:30am-12.30pm Elettra NANOESCA Self-assembled molecular layers on metal surfaces: LEED and Auger electron spectroscopy studies.
March 22th 14.30pm-17.30pm Labs TOMOLAB Synchrotron- and laboratory-based X-ray computed microtomography.

--- Session B: Biomolecular and soft condensed matter ---

Group B


Day Time Facility Beamline Experiment
March 21th 14.30pm-17.30pm Elettra IUVS Chemical and structural conformation of biomolecules investigted by UV Resonant Raman.
March 22th 9.30am-12.00am Elettra SISSI Infrared multiscale analyses on collagen based materials (from micro to nano).
March 22th 14.30pm-17.30pm Labs STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY quick journey of a protein: from solution to crystal structure.

Group 4B