The ALBA Synchrotron opens today its 3rd call for beamtime proposals. The experiments will be performed from April to December 2014 in any of the seven beamlines of ALBA. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 4th 2013.
An international collaboration among researchers from Nanjing University (China), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany) and the ALBA Synchrotron (Spain) has discovered new aspects regarding the microscopic magnetic mechanisms in cobalt nanostructures. This research will contribute to a better understanding of the magnetic exchange bias systems used for magnetic information storage devices, enabling the production of smaller hard disks with a higher information density. This is the first published paper with data collected at BOREAS beamline.
In conjunction with UmbrellaID.org and ICAT workshops and within the framework of the PaNdata collaboration project, ALBA Synchrotron held a project meeting on September 9th and 10th to discuss the open data infrastructure used in European photon and neutron laboratories. More than 30 attendees from seven different European countries participated in the meeting.
From September 3rd to 6th, ALBA Synchrotron held its first User Meeting and the VI National Meeting of the Spanish Synchrotron User Association (AUSE). During this event, researchers from different scientific areas have shown first results obtained in ALBA and have discussed the applications and advantages that synchrotron light has on Spanish science.
Next November 14th and 15th, ALBA Synchrotron organizes a workshop with the aim of describing the available tools and the analytic potential of the current ALBA beamlines. This workshop will take place in ALBA's facilities and has no registration fees. There is a limited attendance of 50 participants.
