Survey BESSY III

BESSY III is being designed to answer scientific questions we can only partly imagine today – and its instrument portfolio is still open. This survey is your chance to help shape it! We are looking for feedback from the user community – past, present and potential future users – on the planning of the BESSY III instruments. The questionnaire is modular and takes just a few minutes for a first pass, with room to go deeper wherever you have concrete ideas. It works equally well for expert synchrotron users and for scientists without a strong background in X-ray experiments – no prior expertise is needed to tell us what would matter for your research.

In section A, we ask about your general needs for BESSY III – it takes about 10 minutes to complete.
In the BESSY III CDR, we will present a set of 7 Signature Instruments as the starting point of the BESSY III portfolio. In section B, we ask how useful these instruments are for your research – choose how many instruments you want to comment on. In case you don’t know the instruments yet, a summary of each instrument is provided.
In the next couple of years, we will extend the BESSY III instrument portfolio beyond the Signature Instruments, involving user groups. As a first step, we welcome ideas for further instruments in section C – this may be very brief, or you can add more details if you already have a concept in mind. We would welcome your involvement in the following stages of the portfolio process.

You can find information on the principal properties of BESSY III here.

Last Name ^*

First Name ^*

E-Mail ^*

Affiliation ^*

Section A: General needs for BESSY III

Are you current / past user of BESSY II? ^*

Which SR methods do you expect to use in 10 years? ^*

Which energy range is most relevant to you? ^*

Far-IR / THz: < 0.1 eV (up to ~800 cm⁻¹)
VUV / EUV: 0.1 – 100 eV
Low soft X-ray: 100 – 500 eV
Soft X-ray: 500 – 1500 eV
Tender X-ray: 1.5 – 5 keV
Hard X-ray: 5 – 20 keV
High-energy hard X-ray: 20 – 40 keV

Do you have specific wishes/suggestions for BESSY III regarding sample environment, automation or lab use? ^*

No
Yes

Do you have specific wishes/suggestions for BESSY III regarding data handling or software? ^*

No
Yes

Do you have specific wishes/suggestions for BESSY III regarding user support or training/teaching? ^*

No
Yes

Do you see main scientific challenges in your field that BESSY III should address? ^*

No
Yes

Is there a capability BESSY III should offer that isn't available to you today (at BESSY II or elsewhere) and why? ^*

No
Yes

Section B: Feedback to Signature Instruments

Please check out the 1-page-summaries of the Signature Instruments:

HARMONY-X (High-throughput Analysis with Range-bridging Multimodal Operando Nano-spectroscopY with X-rays)
DELIXIRS (Dynamics of Environmental Liquid Interfaces by X-ray and InfraRed Spectroscopy)
QMAP (Quantum Materials ARPES)
QuaRX (Quasi-particle RIXS)
CSI (Coherent Scattering & Imaging)
AI-XPRESS (Autonomous Industry X-ray PRocessing, Efficient Scattering and Spectroscopy)
10CUBED (Coherent Universal Beam for Energy Materials and Dynamics)

HARMONY-X: How relevant is this Signature Instrument for your research?