What is new in this call

CERIC is increasing its capacities in the field of Energy Materials. To this end, we will upgrade some beamlines/instruments during this year to improve our services. In the first step, the upgrades will address battery research. We invite the users to check the instruments pages or contact the instruments scientists for forthcoming developments.

Additional instruments available

• European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Nanobiotechnology Laboratory in Ispra, Italy
• Holographic Electron Microscopy (HoloTem) at University of Salento in Lecce, Italy
• Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (MSI) at University of Salerno, Italy

CERIC continues to offer access to

• Ultra Resolved Angular Photoelectron Spectroscopy URANOS@SOLARIS (former UARPES)
• Absorption Spectroscopy beamline in Tender energy Range and Above ASTRA@SOLARIS (former SOLABS)
• Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy PIRX@SOLARIS (former PEEM/XAS)
• Near Ambient Pressure Electron Spectroscopy EnviroESCA@Charles University Prague
• Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy LYRA dual beam FIB/SEM@Charles University Prague

CERIC is currently negotiating the addition to the open access of the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) at LAGE laboratory in Trieste, Italy
The facility may be added during the current Call for Proposals. Stay tuned for more information.

Maintenance
Some instruments at the Light Scattering Laboratory@TUGraz are under maintenance. If you intend to apply for this facility, please contact Heinz Amenitsch at amenitsch@tugraz.at.

Remote Access
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the CERIC facilities may propose to perform measurements remotely, through sample mailing.
It will be possible to express your availability for remote measurements in the proposal submission form.

Multi-technique proposals

For the following synchrotron beamlines, only multi-technique proposals will be considered:

• BAEL – Band Dispersion and Electron-Phonon Coupling
• ESCA – Esca Microscopy
• GAPH – Gas Phase Photoemission
• SUES – High Resolution Core-level Photoemission Spectroscopy
• IUVS – Inelastic Scattering with Ultraviolet Radiation
• MCX – Materials Characterisation by X-ray Diffraction
• NASP – Nanospectroscopy
• TwinMic – Soft X-ray Transmission and Emission Microscope
• SPEM – Spectromicroscopy
• SISSI-Bio – Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging (Chemistry & Life Sciences)
• SISSI-Mat – Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging (Materials science)
• SYRMEP – Synchrotron Radiation for Medical Physics
• XAFS – X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
• XRD1 – X-ray Diffraction

Two-steps application

The first step allows a pre-evaluation of the proposal at the facilities, followed by two weeks for editing before final submission at the second deadline. Although we suggest taking advantage of the pre-evaluation, expert users may decide to submit their proposals directly at the second deadline.

Fast track access

Read the CERIC Scientific Data Policy here

CERIC user office: useroffice@ceric-eric.eu