24 Jan 2025
23 January 2025 - a day to remember: The electrons are back at the #SwissLightSource #SLS! 💫
With this, SLS is well on track to resume operation in summer 2025. Congratulations to the entire #SLS 2.0 team on this major milestone! 👏
#UpgradingSLS #LightSourceScience
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26 Mar 2024
💫 Things are progressing fast at SLS 2.0! On 21 March, the first entire arc, consisting of the girders, magnets and the vacuum chamber, was installed in the tunnel of the electron storage ring. 💪 #UpgradingSLS
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30 Jan 2024
🏗️👷🏽 Out with the old, in with the new! In autumn 2023, the SLS 2.0 team said goodbye to some of the old equipment, such as the two undulators shown in the video. #UpgradingSLS #SLS2.0 #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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19 Dec 2023
🚀✨ Take a look inside the #SLS ring like you've never seen before!! Catch some action as we dismantle the old ring, making way for the construction of the new one! #UpgradingSLS #SLS2.0
#MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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11 Dec 2023
Is it Christmas already? Wrapped with yellow ribbons, these magnet yokes were delivered to us from Heinz Baumgartner AG! They will be used in high precision permanent magnets at #SLS2.0, the upgrade project of the Swiss Light Source. #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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27 Nov 2023
Curious about what happens inside the #SwissLightSource #SLS after it has shut down?#UpgradingSLS #SLS2.0
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24 Nov 2023
#MemesOfSLS
Us to our users:
"After #UpgradingSLS, you will be able to do advanced experiments with which you can answer many questions you might have."
Our users:
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30 Sep 2023
Today is the day: the electron accelerator is switched off and the SLS enters its 'dark time', returning brighter than ever in 2025. #ThankYouSLS and our researchers and engineers for your tireless efforts to push the boundaries of knowledge and technology. #UpgradingSLS
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30 Sep 2023
Time to say goodbye! 👋 #ThankYouSLS for your light and see you in 2025 with #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch!! #KillTheBeam #UpgradingSLS #SLS2.0
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28 Sep 2023
🛑💥The Swiss Light Source SLS will return to service in 2025 – but meanwhile experiments at this large-scale research facility have to be suspended.
#UpgradingSLS #SLS2.0 @lightsources brnw.ch/21wD0P5
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27 Sep 2023
The amazing video that user @matthewvenn made during his time measuring at the SLS. See you soon and... brighter than before 👏🤗 #ThankYouSLS #UpgradingSLS #SLS2.0
23 Sep 2023
I'm working on a new video that has a lot of amazing machines in it.
Reminds me imaging my first #ASIC on my visit to @psich_en.
Here's one of my favourite photos from that trip, mmmm... gold plugs.
And here's the video if you missed it! zerotoasiccourse.com/post/in…
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27 Sep 2023
PSI scientist Nicola Casati looks back on 22 years of scientific excellence in materials science using synchrotron radiation at the Swiss Light Source SLS. Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS? #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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26 Sep 2023
Grigory Smolentsev looks back on how the SLS was instrumental in solving the mystery of how copper-based organic LEDs work on the nanosecond timescale. Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS? #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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25 Sep 2023
PSI beamline scientist Federica Marone looks back on 22 years of scientific excellence in tomographic microscopy using X-rays at the #SwissLightSource #SLS. Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS? #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch #TOMCAT
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22 Sep 2023
PSI scientist Thorsten Schmitt looks back on 22 years of scientific excellence studying #quantum #materials with synchrotron radiation at the Swiss Light Source SLS. Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS? #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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21 Sep 2023
#UpgradingSLS
PSI scientist @MarianneLiebi looks back on 22 years of scientific excellence at SLS and their revolutionary method which reveals information on the structure of mineralised collagen fibres that make up 🦴bones and 🦷teeth.
Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS?
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7 Sep 2023
#ThankYouSLS with your light I've got a #PhD and a #Nature Communications paper and some other publications to start being a #scientist. 👩🏻🔬❤️
#science #xray #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
#phdvoice #cement #imaging #nano #synchrotron #sciencecommunication #Academic
5 Sep 2023
As we approach the temporary shutdown for the SLS 2.0 upgrade this fall, our scientists look back at 22 years of brilliant science and achievements made possible by the SLS. Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS? #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch @lightsources
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7 Sep 2023
X06DA-PXIII, the first SLS 2.0 Pilot Beamline, is now measuring protein crystals again! 🙌💪
#UpgradingSLS
#SLS2.0
#MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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5 Sep 2023
#ThankYouSLS With your light we could detect reactive intermediates during many catalytic reactions to unveil the mechanism! ♥️ We will miss you during the #UpgradingSLS period. However we are looking forward to #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch 🧪⚗️
5 Sep 2023
As we approach the temporary shutdown for the SLS 2.0 upgrade this fall, our scientists look back at 22 years of brilliant science and achievements made possible by the SLS. Why would you like to say #ThankYouSLS? #UpgradingSLS #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch @lightsources
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