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March 2026 ESRFnews
USER CORNER
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1 March – 28 July 2026 Scheduling period 2026 / I
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23 – 24 April 2026 BeamTime Allocation Panel meetings
for 2026 / II
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25 Aug 2026 – 28 Feb 2027 Scheduling period 2026 / II
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10 September 2026 Submission deadline for standard and
BAG proposals for 2027 / I
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15 September 2026 Experiment report submission deadline
for experiments from 2026 / I
Users with questions , comments and
ideas are welcome to contact the User
Organisation Committee ( UOC ) at any
time . Representatives of each scientific
community and their contact details
can be found at www . esrf . eu / UOC .
ESRF contacts : www . esrf . eu / Contacts .
KEY CONTACTS DATES FOR THE DIARY
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right : Tilman Grünewald , chair of the UOC .
ID01
BM01
BM02
BM05
BM07
BM08
BM14
BM16
BM20
BM23
BM25
BM26
BM28
BM29
BM30
BM31
BM32
ID02
ID03
ID06
ID09
ID10
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ID12
ID13
ID16B
ID17
ID18
ID19
ID20
ID21
ID22
ID23
ID24
ID26
ID27
ID28
ID29
ID30B
ID31
ID32
ID15B
CM01
HPLF
BM18
ID14
CM02
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BM30
The FAME beamline reopened in November last year , following a year - long shutdown .
The first users have benefitted from fully upgraded optics , including mirrors and the
monochromator , as well as , notably , a new solid - state multi - element detector – replacing
the previous one that had been in use since 1995 . “ The acquired data are of good quality ,
with a short acquisition time , allowing for the conducting of operando experiments , ” says
Maider Zarrabeitia of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany .
ID30B
The latest X - ray photon - counting
detector from DECTRIS , a PILATUS4
XE 4M with CdTe sensor , was
installed at the beamline in December
last year . This large new - generation
detector enhances the beamline ’ s
capabilities , enabling high - quality
atomic - resolution macromolecular
crystallographic diffraction data
collection . Next improvements
include extending the high energy
range to 30 keV and enabling 2 kHz
data collection speeds .
BM26
Following the EBS upgrade , EH1 has
not been used , as the new source with
smaller horizontal emittance no longer
allows beam splitting for two
simultaneous techniques . Recently ,
EH1 has been refurbished to operate
in a time - sharing mode with EH2
( X - ray scattering ) , enabling future
experiments to be carried out .
BM28
XMaS is converting to BLISS , the new ESRF
experiment control system . The X - ray laboratory
source is already using BLISS , making it a test bench
for the main beamline , where a first user experiment
fully running under BLISS took place recently .
BM02
The D2AM beamline now features a
CE - certified collaborative robot ( cobot ) ,
enabling fully automated , high - throughput
experiments with thousands of samples , together
with a new 2D sample changer for simultaneous
SAXS WAXS On the fly data reduction provides
immediate feedback during measurements
while the newly acquired 4M CdTe and 4M Si
detectors significantly enhance detection
sensitivity efficiency and spatial resolution
Micro - imaging laboratory
The new Zeiss Gemini 560 SEM
has been installed . It delivers
state - of - the - art sub - nanometre
surface imaging at low kV ,
advanced in - lens detection , high
analytical flexibility and
automation , enabling high - quality ,
reproducible characterisation of
insulating biological and beam
sensitive samples
Forthcoming refurbishments
ID10 December 2026 to July 2027
ID11 March 2027 for about a year
ID26 August 2026 to March 2027