Welcome to Elettra Crowd!

We are pleased to send our greetings to all our users, collaborators and friends with the arrival of Spring at Elettra. In the recent months, our facility has been the stage for high level research activity, highlighted by the results from FERMI published in the prestigious journal Nature. This experiment, carried out at the DiProI beamline, marks a turning point in unveiling the research potential provided by a free electron laser source, and attests the great success of FERMI.
We wish you a productive and enjoyable summer, and hope to see you more often at Elettra!

Research Highlights

	FEL-based four-wave-mixing @ FERMI Coherent FEL pulses delivered by FERMI can generate transient gratings in the extreme ultraviolet range that can stimulate a four-wave response when illuminated by an optical laser pulse. Nature 520, 205 (2015) Read more...
	Epitaxial growth of single-domain hexagonal boron nitride monolayer A new method for the epitaxial growth of a high-quality single-domain hexagonal boron nitride monolayer has been developed. ACS Nano 8, 12063 (2014) Read more...
	Identification of primary lesion of toxic aluminum in toxic roots The accumulation of aluminum within the walls in the outer root tissues has been revealed by means of X-ray fluorescence spectromicroscopy. Plant Physiology 167, 1402 (2015) Read more...