Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

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Xcool Lab open for schools – book now!

Take a virtual tour of the European XFEL

Take a virtual tour of the European XFEL

A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

Facts and figures about the facility

Facts and figures about the facility

More about the beamlines

More about the beamlines

More about the superconducting linear accelerator

More about the superconducting linear accelerator

More about the scientific instruments

More about the scientific instruments

The 3.4 km long European XFEL generates extremely intense X-ray flashes used by researchers from all over the world to map atomic details of viruses, film chemical reactions, and study processes in the interior of planets. Discover European XFEL at our Lighthouse

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Announcements and Events

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01 March 2021 to 29 December 2025
online event

FELs of Europe Tutorials

11 October 2025, 10:30
Lighthouse

Science Samstag: Druck

11 October 2025, 12:15
European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse

Geführte Besichtigung, 11. Oktober

23 October 2025, 16:00
European XFEL, XHQ / E1.173

Spin polarization and migration

23 October 2025, 18:00
Lighthouse, European XFEL, Auditorium

Abendvortrag: Werkzeug Licht

08 November 2025, 13:00
Lighthouse

Science Samstag: Vogelwelt auf dem Campus

User Publications

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Adv. Electron. Mater. Early View, e00429 (2025-09-19)

Ultrafast Dynamics of Electronic and Structural Modifications Induced by Photoexcitation in Cerium Oxide

S. Pelatti, E. Spurio, D. Catone, P. O'Keeffe, S. Turchini, G. Ammirati, F. Paleari, D. Varsano, S. Benedetti, A. di Bona, S. D'Addato, Y. Jiang, P. Zalden, Y. Uemura, H. Wang, D. Vinci, X. Huang, F. Alves Lima, M. Biednov, D. Khakhulin, C.J. Milne, F. Boscherini, P. Luches
Crystals 15 (8), 734 (2025-08-19)

Coarse-Graining and Classifying Massive High-Throughput XFEL Datasets of Crystallization in Supercooled Water

E.S.H. Chia, T.B. Berberich, E. Sobolev, J.C.P. Koliyadu, P. Adams, T. André, F.D. Antonia, S. Cardoch, E. De Santis, A. Formosa, B. Hammarström, M.P. Hassett, S. Kim, M. Kloos, R. Letrun, J. Malka, D. Melo, S. Paporakis, T. Sato, P. Schmidt, O. Turkot, M. Vakili, J. Valerio, T.V. Yenupuri, T. You, R. de Wijn, G.-S. Park, B. Abbey, C. Darmanin, S. Bajt, H.N. Chapman, J. Bielecki, F.R.N.C. Maia, N. Timneanu, C. Caleman, A.V. Martin, R.P. Kurta, J.A. Sellberg, N.-t.D. Loh
Nat Commun 16 (1), 7966 (2025-08-26)

Ultrafast decoupling of polarization and strain in ferroelectric BaTiO3

L.P. Hoang, D. Pesquera, G.N. Hinsley, R. Carley, L. Mercadier, M. Teichmann, E.M. Unterleutner, D. Knez, M. Dienstleder, S. Ganguly, T.C. Asmara, G. Merzoni, S. Parchenko, J. Schlappa, Z. Yin, J.M. Caicedo Roque, J. Santiso, I. Spasojevic, C. Carinan, T.-L. Lee, K. Rossnagel, J. Zegenhagen, G. Catalan, I.A. Vartanyants, A. Scherz, G. Mercurio
JACS 147 (34), 30694–30707 (2025-08-13)

Unraveling the Relaxation Dynamics of Uracil: Insights from Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

D. Faccialà, M. Bonanomi, B.N.C. Tenorio, L. Avaldi, P. Bolognesi, C. Callegari, M. Coreno, S. Coriani, P. Decleva, M. Devetta, N. Došlić, A. De Fanis, M. Di Fraia, F. Lever, T. Mazza, M. Meyer, T. Mullins, Y. Ovcharenko, N. Pal, M.N. Piancastelli, R. Richter, D.E. Rivas, M. Sapunar, B. Senfftleben, S. Usenko, C. Vozzi, M. Gühr, K.C. Prince, O. Plekan

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