30.08.2010 (RAMPF-Gruppe, EPUCRET Mineralgusstechnik)

EPUCRET supplies machine frame for x-ray laser SwissFEL

The Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland is currently working on plans to develop an x-ray light source which will afford an previously uncharted insight into the status of matter. The large-scale research facility SwissFEL operates at wavelengths of just a fraction of a nanometer – so tiny that it is able to detect even atomic detail. The nerve centre of the facility is the injector, which will be resting on a vibration-resistant mineral casting frame from EPUCRET. The first prototypes are already in operation. Construction of the injector is also being treated as the first test phase for the SwissFEL.