Sweden makes the most of PETRA III despite the pandemic
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Published Apr 19, 2021
One of CeXS duties is to monitor Sweden's use of the PETRA III synchrotron and its Swedish Material Science beamline - and report this to the Swedish Research Council (VR).
Despite Covid-19 disruptions, there are many highlights from our 2020 report, including:
- PETRA III is very much in demand by Swedish researchers:
- Sustained proposal rates
- The Swedish (P21), P03 and P22 beam lines are most popular - each being requested in approx. 20% of proposals
- Some other beamlines are requested by 10% of proposals, with most receiving at least one request
- International researchers also saw the value of the Swedish beamline and conducted measurements there
- Many Swedish users actually had the chance to make research measurements
- 102 users visited PETRA III to undertake measurements, working with social distancing precautions
- Additional virtual users gained access via 1 remote access project and 9 mail in projects
- 42 projects had beam time, 37 via privileged access with 5 industry projects paying for access
- 7 of those privileged access projects and 1 industry project used the Swedish beamline
- Publications were up
- 88 papers in 2020 - compared to 66 in 2019 and 53 in 2018
- PETRA IV and scientific research
- CeXS orchestrated 3 Scientific Instrument Proposals (SiPs), and supported a 4th, setting the scene for leading research at the future PETRA IV