Latest news: new picosecond accelerator operational - 23th of December 2009

Our new picosecond pulsed high-energy electron accelerator has delivered its first pulses today (23 December 2009). Pulses are being produced for pump and probe experiments with a world-wide unprecedented high repetition frequency of 100 Hz.

This terrific achievement is the outcome of intense collaboration and commitment of technicians and scientists at the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Reactor Institute Delft.

In particular Martien Vermeulen and Walter Knulst have shown enormous persistence since they started the design and construction of the accelerator about four years ago.

The electron pulses will be combined with optical and terahertz probe pulses for studies on new materials for application in opto-electronics (e.g. solar cells) and nanomedicine.