The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
(ESRF) is the most powerful synchrotron source in Europe. The
ESRF is one of the world's largest synchrotron science centres. Every year,
9000 scientists from 22 partner countries and from around the world travel to
Grenoble to use its extremely brilliant X-rays for leading-edge research. The
ESRF Upgrade Programme 2009-2018 maintains the world-leading role through a
continuous quest for higher performance figures, meeting the needs of returning
users, and attracting scientists from new disciplines1. ESRF–EBS (Extremely Brilliant Source) is the ESRF’s 150M€
facility upgrade, over 2015-2022, bringing its scientific users a
first-of-a-kind, low-emittance, high-energy synchrotron light source and new,
cutting-edge beamlines. With a revolutionary new storage ring concept that
increases the brilliance and coherence of the X-ray beams produced by a factor
of 100 compared to present-day light sources, ESRF–EBS represents a new
generation of synchrotron and an extraordinary new tool for scientists to study
the heart of matter.
The Czech republic is a member state of the ESRF, enabling Czech
scientist to apply for beamtime. Our membership is financed through the MŠMT
program Inter-Excellence and is secured for the period between 2018-2022.
1 – www.esrf.eu