Partner for research and industry

For PETRA IV, new access concepts will be devised to strengthen application-oriented industrial research. To this end, the future portfolio of beamlines and measuring stations will cover both scientific and industrial research and development.

With its outstanding experimental capabilities, increased throughput and new service offerings, PETRA IV will be able to serve a much larger user community. Compared to any other synchrotron radiation source in the world, PETRA IV will offer much better and unique experimental conditions.

The number of visitors from academia and industry is expected to increase from the current 3500 individuals to around 5000 per year. With the 31 beamlines and their improved performance, user visits to PETRA IV will more than double compared to PETRA III to a total of 15,000 visits per year.

Beam time for projects

Whereas in the past, beam time applications were submitted by certain deadlines, PETRA IV has set up a much more agile access model. Project applications can be submitted at any time and are then quickly assessed and evaluated. Within a few weeks, positively rated project applications then receive their beam time to carry out measurements.

Organisational support for experiments at an X-ray light source is becoming increasingly important: a ‘User Support Group’ set up at DESY coordinates the range of services. In addition to organisational support in preparation and implementation, this includes analytical studies, measurements, if required on several beamlines, as well as data processing, evaluation and reporting.