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Experimental Infrastructure at HZB

The HZB offers access to a large variety of beamlines and stations at its photon facility BESSY II. The beamlines and stations can be used in combination with a wide range of dedicated Sample Environment devices. In addition, CoreLabs, user support labs, supplies and technical workshops are available. Please use the search options below or have a look at the overview to find a suitable beamline, station and additional infrastructure for your experiment.

Floor plan BESSY II+ - enlarged view

When considering a certain instrument for your proposal, we kindly ask you to contact the responsible instrument scientist(s) for more information on the instrument and its current status. Moreover, the HZB gives you the opportunity to bring your own equipment to some of the beamlines. Please see the list of open port beamlines for more information.

Additional infrastructure for a successful beamtime

HZB CoreLabs & User labs
HZB hosts a number of state-of-the-art on-site laboratories, user facilities and off-synchrotron tools for sample preparation and sample characterisation. All these facilities are designed to serve researchers from universities, foreign research institutions and industry. Please visit User Labs for more detailed information.

HZB User Facilities & Supplies
The User Facilites at BESSY II hold pumping stations, leak detection, a limited selection of vacuum components and assemblies as well as technical gases and liquid nitrogen incl. tranportation dewars. Storage spaces are available for packaging materials and gases. A mechanical workshop as well as a chemistry lab and a biological lab are available for users. Additional facilites are available on request. For more detailed information and access to our HZB User Facilities, please visit the webpage or contact the BESSY II User Support.

Sample Environment
The main task of the sample environment group is the control of the physical parameters at the sample position like temperature, magnetic or electric field or pressure. In addition they offer in-situ preparation of the sample by gas adsorption or chemical reactions as well as complementary in-situ measurements. The sample environment group supports beamline scientists and the users during development and construction of novel sample evironment components. For an increasing number of beamlines they offer specialized sample environment equipment in combination with direct user service. For more detailed information on sample environment go to the webpage.

SyncLab
The joint research group SyncLab has been established between the HZB and the Technical University of Berlin. BLiX (Berlin laboratory for innovative X-ray technologies) - located at Technical University of Berlin - established imaging and spectroscopic techniques in the soft and hard X-ray range independent on large scale facilities. Due to the invariably less photon flux when using laboratory sources, the work spans development of adapted instrumentation, to specialized experimental methodology and analytics.