Scientific field: Energy

Energy research is about any new material to improve energy conversion, energy storage and energy efficiency. This includes optimisation of materials for photovoltaics, understand electrochemical processes for battery research and especially in-situ and operando experiments.

For catalytic processes and solar fuels, please also see the field Chemistry.

Please find below a list of instruments at BESSY II which are commonly chosen by the energy community.


Instrument Energy Range Polarisation Contact
CoESCA tbd variable Danilo Kühn
Diffraction@KMC-2 tbd linear horizontal Daniel Többens
FemtoSlicing-Dynamax tbd variable Christian Schüßler-Langeheine
Niko Pontius
Karsten Holldack
Dirk Ponwitz
HiKE@KMC-1 tbd horizontal Roberto Felix Duarte
Marcel Mertin
Imaging@BAMline tbd horizontal Henning Markötter
IRIS 1 tba linearly horizontal/vertical Ljiljana Puskar
Alexander Veber
IRIS 2 tba linearly horizontal/vertical Ljiljana Puskar
Alexander Veber
LowDosePES tbd horizontal Erika Giangrisostomi
Nomi Sorgenfrei
mySpot 4 - 25 keV (not all usable for all methods) horizontal Ivo Zizak
Ana Guilherme Buzanich
Scattering@PM3 tbd • horizontal
• circular
Torsten Kachel
Niko Pontius
SMART tbd variable (linear and circular) Thomas Schmidt
Marcel Springer
SoLiAs@PM3 tbd • horizontal
• circular
Spectroscopy@BAMline tbd horizontal Martin Radtke
Ana Guilherme Buzanich
XANES@KMC-2 tbd linear horizontal Götz Schuck
MYSTIIC 250 eV to 2500 eV linear horizontal, linear vertical, circular Markus Weigand
Sebastian Wintz
Simone Raoux
OAESE
  • UE48: 80 eV to 2000 eV
  • CPMU17: PGM: 700-1600 eV // DCM: 2200-10000 eV
  • UE48: horizontal, vertical, circular
  • CPMU17: horizontal
  • Raul Garcia Diez
    Anna Efimenko
    Mihaela Gorgoi
    Stefan Hendel
    SISSY I
  • UE48: 80 eV to 2000 eV
  • CPMU17: PGM: 700-1600 eV // DCM: 2200-10000 eV
  • UE48: horizontal, vertical, circular
  • CPMU17: horizontal
  • Regan Wilks
    Marcus Bär
    Johannes Frisch
    Anna Efimenko
    Mihaela Gorgoi
    Stefan Hendel