Experimental Infrastructure at HZB

The HZB offers access to a large variety of instruments at its photon facility BESSY II. The instruments can be used in combination with a wide range of dedicated Sample Environment devices. In addition, CoreLabs, user support labs, supplies and technical workshops are available. Please use the search options below or have a look at the overview to find a suitable beamline, station and additional infrastructure for your experiment.

Instruments at BESSY II

When considering a certain instrument for your proposal, we kindly ask you to contact the responsible instrument scientist(s) for more information on the instrument and its current status.

Twice a year the HZB User Coordination welcomes the submission of new applications. Proposals for BESSY II, EMF and MX may only be submitted via the general access tool GATE. Please find more information about the Call for proposals here: Proposal Submission.

Lab Facilities

HZB hosts a number of state-of-the-art on-site laboratories, user facilities and off-synchrotron tools for sample preparation and sample characterisation. All these facilities are designed to serve researchers from universities, foreign research institutions and industry. For more information please go here.

Sample Environment

Sample environment plays a crucial role for most beamline-based experiments. The main task of our department is the control of the physical parameters at the sample position like temperature, magnetic or electric field or pressure. In addition, we offer solutions for in-situ and in operando photon studies i.e. of gas absorption properties, catalytic processes, (electro-) chemical reactions in batteries and fuel cells, etc.