Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA is a multidisciplinary international laboratory of excellence, specialised in generating high quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light for scientific applications. Its mission is to promote cultural, social and economic growth through basic and applied research, technical and scientific training, transfer of technology and know-how.
The ELETTRA storage ring offers access to 26 beamlines with applications ranging from atomic and molecular physics, nanotechnology and life sciences. Of these beamlines, 18 can work in parallel at the same time. The beamlines cover a wide variety of experimental techniques and scientific fields, including photoemission and spectro-microscopy, crystallography, low-angle scattering, dichroic absorption spectroscopy, X-ray imaging, powder diffraction etc. ELETTRA serves the communities of material and surface science, solid-state chemistry, atomic and molecular physics, as well as biology, medicine and cultural heritage. The beamlines are complemented by 13 laboratories for sample preparation and characterisation as well as scientific computing.