Instrumentation development

The Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability (WISE) provides Sweden with a 10+ year perspective for enabling sustainable technologies. We aim at enhancing the department’s competitiveness for grant applications across research programs in this and other fields. Based on identified strategic areas in the department such as ultrafast processes, quantum materials, photovoltaic materials, solar energy harvesting, hydrogen in materials, we bring together expertise to use and develop techniques, instrumentation and light/particle sources. We operate a central femtosecond laser facility, exploit the use of coherence at MAX IV and develop a unique, medium-scale femtosecond x-ray user facility for the Swedish science community.