| AVS 64th International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Novel Trends in Synchrotron and FEL-Based Analysis Focus Topic | Tuesday Sessions |
| Session SA+MI-TuM |
| Session: | Overcoming the Temporal and Spatial Limits of X-Ray Scattering Methods for In-Situ Analysis |
| Presenter: | Wolfgang Eberhardt, DESY-CFEL, Germany |
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Accelerator driven photon sources have experienced a phenomenal development and success over the last decades. Worldwide many thousands of scientists travel to these facilities to conduct their research and new and upgraded facilities are under construction in several countries around the world. While storage ring based facilities have been at the heart of this effort until recently, the attention has somewhat turned to the construction of free electron laser facilities. As the pricetag for each of these facilities is in the range of 100's of million $, and even surpassing 1 B$, the question arises, whether science and society really needs both kind of facilities.
In this talk I will give examples of experiments that are unique to each of these light sources, emphasizing the need for both --- state of the art DLSR's and FEL's ---- to meet the challenges of future science and society.