The ESRF’s new Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS) is officially entering a new stage. This week, the first components for the EBS – the world’s first, high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron light source – have been installed in its storage ring tunnel: a new milestone in the history of the European Synchrotron.
Since its inception thirty years ago as the world’s first third-generation synchrotron light source for research, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, has become a centre of scientific excellence, breaking records for its scientific output (30,000 publications, four Nobel prizes) as well as for the brilliance and stability of its X-ray beams.