EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY

The ESRF is the world's most intense X-ray source and a centre of excellence for fundamental research. The ESRF's X-ray facilities provide unique material analysis and characterisation, going far beyond traditional laboratory techniques. The ESRF offers access to its state-of-the-art equipment and teams of scientific and technological experts for industrial R&D. Our industrial services offer you privileged and convenient access to our 43 X-ray beamlines and expertise, allowing us to help you solve your process problems, reduce your time-to-market and improve your R&D programmes. For industrial customers, there are three modes of access: on-site, mail-in or remote-access.

Our applications cover many fields, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, chemistry and catalysis, consumer products, construction and transport engineering, nanotechnologies, energy, environme

The ESRF functions like a ‘super-microscope’, due to the brilliance and exceptional qualities of its synchrotron X-rays (100 billion times brighter than X-rays from conventional sources). These X-rays allow advanced characterisation of materials for a huge range of industrial sectors, down to the micro, nano and atomic scales - often in real time and under real manufacturing or operating conditions.