The EIB loan will cover 50 per cent of the cost of the final phase of the project.
FERMI@Elettra is based on a newly designed free-electron laser for studying materials, which, as an international laboratory, will be open to the scientific community and companies.
The new light source is based on a linear accelerator and is about 350m long. It will produce light impulses 10 billion times brighter but also shorter than the existing Elettra storage ring, which will enable a series of images to be generated of the dynamic structure of materials (50 per second), each recorded on a time scale of the order of a ten thousandth of a billionth of a second.
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