Survey BESSY III

BESSY III is being designed to answer scientific questions we can only partly imagine today – and its instrument portfolio is still open. This survey is your chance to help shape it! We are looking for feedback from the user community – past, present and potential future users – on the planning of the BESSY III instruments. The questionnaire is modular and takes just a few minutes for a first pass, with room to go deeper wherever you have concrete ideas. It works equally well for expert synchrotron users and for scientists without a strong background in X-ray experiments – no prior expertise is needed to tell us what would matter for your research.

In section A, we ask about your general needs for BESSY III – it takes about 10 minutes to complete.
In the BESSY III CDR, we will present a set of 7 Signature Instruments as the starting point of the BESSY III portfolio. In section B, we ask how useful these instruments are for your research – choose how many instruments you want to comment on. In case you don’t know the instruments yet, a summary of each instrument is provided.
In the next couple of years, we will extend the BESSY III instrument portfolio beyond the Signature Instruments, involving user groups. As a first step, we welcome ideas for further instruments in section C – this may be very brief, or you can add more details if you already have a concept in mind. We would welcome your involvement in the following stages of the portfolio process.

You can find information on the principal properties of BESSY III here.

The survey is open until November 30th.

Last Name ^*

First Name ^*

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Affiliation ^*

Section A: General needs for BESSY III

Are you current / past user of BESSY II? ^*

Which SR methods do you expect to use in 10 years? ^*

Which energy range is most relevant to you? ^*

Do you have specific wishes/suggestions for BESSY III regarding sample environment, automation or lab use? ^*

No
Yes

Do you have specific wishes/suggestions for BESSY III regarding data handling or software? ^*

No
Yes

Do you have specific wishes/suggestions for BESSY III regarding user support or training/teaching? ^*

No
Yes

Do you see main scientific challenges in your field that BESSY III should address? ^*

No
Yes

Is there a capability BESSY III should offer that isn't available to you today (at BESSY II or elsewhere) and why? ^*

No
Yes

Section B: Feedback to Signature Instruments

Please check out the 1-page-summaries of the Signature Instruments:

HARMONY-X (High-throughput Analysis with Range-bridging Multimodal Operando Nano-spectroscopY with X-rays)
DELIXIRS (Dynamics of Environmental Liquid Interfaces by X-ray and InfraRed Spectroscopy)
QMAP (Quantum Materials ARPES)
QuaRX (Quasi-particle RIXS)
CSI (Coherent Scattering & Imaging)
AI-XPRESS (Autonomous Industry X-ray PRocessing, Efficient Scattering and Spectroscopy)
10CUBED (Coherent Universal Beam for Energy Materials and Dynamics)

HARMONY-X: How relevant is this Signature Instrument for your research?