The 17th of December, ALBA organized together with FCT Portugal an online workshop with approximately 100 participants. ALBA presented the Portuguese community of synchrotron users the features and status of the facility. In addition, it also promoted the interaction between Portuguese, Spanish research groups and ALBA scientists to start developing collaborations. In 2021, ALBA will host four postdoctoral positions within this Iberian collaboration which will be based at ALBA premises.
A UOC team has carried out the first parameterization of a millimetre-band signal propagation model applied to an industrial environment like the ALBA Synchrotron facility. It is the first step towards high performance wireless communications in the manufacturing industry.
Small and medium companies (SMEs) can ask for funded beamtime in different European light sources thanks to EU CALIPSOplus project till the 30th of June 2021.
The Rector Council of the ALBA Synchrotron, counting with the participation of the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Department of Business and Knowledge of the Generalitat de Cataluña, chaired by Minister Pedro Duque, has given the green light to start working in 2021 on the ALBA II project, an ambitious program that will transform ALBA into a 4th generation synchrotron facility upgrading the accelerator and other components and building new beamlines.
Plastic solar cells are comprised of two materials: a semiconductor polymer and another electron-accepting compound. To obtain the maximum performance from the solar cell, it is necessary that regions where the compounds are intermixed and regions where the materials are pure coexist. This new research presents for the first time an experimental methodology based on nanocalorimetry that allows quantifying the degree of intermixing of solar cells, a fundamental knowledge for the design of more efficient and stable devices. Some of the experiments were carried out in the ALBA Synchrotron's NCD-SWEET beamline.
