ALOISA and its Users:Since 2001 to 2011, about 210 experiments have been performed at ALOISA during public beamtime, out of about 400 proposals submitted to the Elettra Review Panel. 40% of the experiments were performed by foreign groups, in particular from USA (25%), France (20%), Spain (15%) and Germany (12%) . Because of the large variety of experimental techniques available at ALOISA, first time Users are strongly encouraged to take contact with the scientists of the staff before submitting a proposal in order to properly focus the experimental plan. |
Research fieldsResearch takes place in fields related to the physics and chemistry of surfaces, materials science, and nanoscience. The philosophy behind the ALOISA project is to exploit in situ several complementary techniques (such as x-ray photoemission and diffraction) in order of achieving both the chemical and the structural characterization of the near surface atomic/molecular layers. In addition, the unparalleled flexibility of its scattering and detection geometry makes ALOISA ideally suited to the spectroscopic investigation (both x-ray photoemission, XPS, and absorption, XAS) of low symmetry systems, such as organic molecules on surfaces. Since 2001 to 2011, the physical systems mostly requested by our Users' community gradually shifted from hard matter (metals and semiconductors) to soft matter (small organic molecules), that is the dominant playground since 2006-07. |
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