The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, striving for new knowledge that is crucial to maintain and improve our living conditions. To this end HZDR carries out cutting-edge research in the fields of Energy, Health and Matter, investigating the questions
- How can energy and resources be utilized in an efficient, safe, and sustainable way?
- How can malignant tumors be more precisely visualized, characterized, and more effectively treated?
- How do matter and materials behave under the influence of strong fields and in smallest dimensions?
Currently around 1200 employees are working in the eight institutes of HZDR, at the main site in Dresden as well as in Freiberg, Leipzig, at the HiBEF beamline at the European XFEL near Hamburg and at the ROBL beamline at the ESRF in Grenoble.
HZDR operates several large-scale research facilities that are available to both internal and external users:
- The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD) offers access to pulsed magnetic fields up to 90 Tesla. Magnet coils with different field strengths and pulse durations provide excellent experimental conditions for modern materials research. HLD is a member of the ESFRI Landmark European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL).
- The Ion Beam Center (IBC) at HZDR combines various ion implanters and electrostatic accelerators into a unique facility for ion beam modification analysis of materials. The available energy ranges from 10 eV to almost 100 MeV. In addition to standard broad beams also focused (down to 1 nm) and highly-charged (charge state up to 45+) ions are provided.
- The core of the ELBE Center for High-Power Radiation Sources is the superconducting electron accelerator ELBE (Electron Linear accelerator with high Brilliance and low Emittance) providing a variety of secondary radiation from high-energy gamma rays to infrared and THz radiation, but also neutrons and positrons.
Two free-electron lasers (FELBE) produce picosecond pulses in the mid and far infrared (4 - 250 μm, which is 1.2 to 60 THz) with μJ pulse energies at 13 MHz repetition rate. The superradiant THz source TELBE generates carrier-envelope phase stable high-field THz pulses (pulse energy up to 10 uJ) up to 1.5 THz.
More information can be found at https://www.hzdr.de
