Scientific field: Energy

Energy research is about any new material to improve energy conversion, energy storage and energy efficiency. This includes optimisation of materials for photovoltaics, understand electrochemical processes for battery research and especially in-situ and operando experiments.

For catalytic processes and solar fuels, please also see the field Chemistry.

Please find below a list of instruments at BESSY II which are commonly chosen by the energy community.


Station Energy Range Polarisation Beamline Contact
BAMline Imaging 4500 - 60000 eV horizontal BAMline
Henning Markötter
BAMline Spectroscopy 4500 - 60000 eV horizontal BAMline Martin Radtke
Ana Guilherme Buzanich
CoESCA 85 - 1600 eV variable UE52_PGM CoESCA Danilo Kühn
Ruslan Ovsyannikov
FEMTOSPEX-DynaMax 400 - 1500 eV variable UE56-1_ZPM Christian Schüßler-Langeheine
Niko Pontius
Dirk Ponwitz
HIKE 2000 - 12000 eV horizontal KMC-1 Roberto Felix Duarte
Marcus Bär
IR-Spectroscopy and Microscopy .0006 - 1 eV linearly horizontal/vertical IRIS Ulrich Schade
Ljiljana Puskar
.0006 - 1 eV linearly horizontal/vertical IRIS 2
KMC-2 Diffraction 4000 - 15000 eV linear horizontal KMC-2 Daniel Többens
KMC-2 XANES 4000 - 15000 eV linear horizontal KMC-2 Götz Schuck
mySpot 4000 - 25000 eV horizontal mySpot Beamline Ivo Zizak
MYSTIIC 80 - 2000 eV horizontal, vertical, circular UE48_EMIL Markus Weigand
Simone Raoux
Sebastian Wintz
OAESE 700 - 10000 eV horizontal CPMU17_EMIL Raul Garcia Diez
Anna Efimenko
80 - 2000 eV horizontal, vertical, circular UE48_EMIL
PM3 scattering 20 - 1900 eV • horizontal
• circular
PM3 Torsten Kachel
Niko Pontius
SISSY I 700 - 10000 eV horizontal CPMU17_EMIL Regan Wilks
Marcus Bär
Johannes Frisch
Anna Efimenko
80 - 2000 eV horizontal, vertical, circular UE48_EMIL
SMART 100 - 1800 eV variable (linear and circular) UE49_PGM SMART Thomas Schmidt
Marcel Springer
Stephan Pohl
SOLIAS 20 - 1900 eV • horizontal
• circular
PM3
SpAnTeX David Starr
Marco Favaro