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June 2021 ESRFnews
Editor Jon Cartwright Tel +44 (0)117 2303080 E-mail jon.a.cartwright@ icloud.com
Editorial committee Nick Brookes Delphine Chenevier Andy Fitch Michael Krisch Gordon Leonard Joanne McCarthy Edward Mitchell Stéphanie Moncao Qing Qin Harald Reichert Francesco Sette
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ESRF news
Less than one year ago, the ESRF put into user operation its Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS). The EBS is a new high-energy, fourth-generation synchrotron light source based on a revolutionary hybrid multi-bend achromat (HMBA) lattice design, and many innovative storage-ring engineering concepts, such as the use of permanent, multi-function magnets. With the EBS, the ESRF has once again raised the bar of synchrotron technology, meeting all expectations in performance and beam stability, and drastically lowering electricity consumption. As a result, it has opened a new vista for X-ray science. This issue of ESRFnews highlights many
examples of X-ray science that will reap rewards from the EBS: for instance, the refinement of additive manufacturing allowing industry to create high- performance components of unparalleled complexity (p14) and the study of certain types of algae that can sustainably generate hydrocarbon fuels (p19). But the EBS concept goes beyond the ESRF, by providing the international
scientific community with new opportunities for hard X-ray synchrotron projects worldwide. As Pantaleo Raimondi, inventor of the HMBA concept, explains (p11), it allows the synchrotron community to take a leap towards a diffraction-limited storage-ring source, lighting the way to even brighter experiments that could, until now, only be imagined.
Francesco Sette ESRF director- general
Lighting the way to a brighter future
With the EBS, the ESRF has once again raised the bar of synchrotron technology
