ALBA Synchrotron Facility

ALBA is the Spanish synchrotron facility located in the area of Barcelona. It is a low-emittance, 3 GeV machine having, at present, seven state-of-the-art operating beamlines covering soft and hard X-rays. The hard X-ray beamlines comprise macromolecular crystallography, non-crystalline diffraction (SAXS and WAXS), high-resolution powder diffraction, and absorption spectroscopy. The soft X-ray beamlines include a photoemission beamline with two endstations—one devoted to photoelectron microscopy (PEEM) and the second to near ambient pressure photoemission (NAPP)—and another beamline devoted to XMCD and soft X-ray scattering. Both beamlines allow full control of the polarization of the beam, since they are equipped with helical undulators. An additional soft X-ray beamline, installed on a bending magnet port, is equipped with a full-field transmission X-ray microscope. Additional information may be found at http://www.albasynchrotron.es/en/beamlines.