Introduction

The SISSI infrared beamline at Elettra extracts the IR and visible components of synchrotron emission for performing spectroscopy, microspectroscopy and imaging. The applications cover a wide range of research fields, including surface and material science, biochemistry, forensics, microanalysis, geology, cell biology, biomedical diagnostics, microfluidics, time resolved IR, conservation science, protein folding, chemical kinetics etc.

The beamline, which hosts two branches, was built in collaboration between Sincrotrone Trieste, the IRS Group at University of Rome "La Sapienza" and CNR-INFM Coherentia.

The SISSI beamline is open to external users since January 2006.