European XFEL

Smaller, faster, more intense: The European XFEL, an X-ray laser research facility in the Hamburg metropolitan area, will open up areas of research that were previously inaccessible. Using the X-ray laser flashes of the European XFEL, scientists will be able to map the atomic details of viruses, decipher the molecular composition of cells, take three-dimensional images of the nanoworld, film chemical reactions, and study processes such as those occurring deep inside planets.