CERN-inspired art exhibition opens in Geneva
"Signatures of the Invisible", the contemporary art exhibition inspired by particle physics, came home to Geneva in February. An initiative of the London Institute, the world's largest college of art and design, "Signatures of the Invisible" brought 11 of Europe's leading artists together to create works based on research carried out at CERN. The resulting exhibition opened at London's Atlantis gallery in March 2001 (CERN Courier May 2001) to critical acclaim, and has since visited Beijing and Rome. The exhibition remains at Geneva's Centre d'Art Contemporain until May, when it will move on to Lisbon. New York, Paris, and a Japanese city (yet to be determined) are possible future venues.
For full details of the project, see http://www.signatures.linst.ac.uk.
New products
Electron Tubes offers glass polishing
Electron Tubes is providing grinding and polishing services for glass components, including spherical polishing. It has obtained equipment and expertise from Sunbury Glassworks, a former specialist manufacturer of glass components that provides grinding and polishing services. New and established customers of Sunbury Glassworks will receive the same level of service from Electron Tubes.
As part of the company's business expansion, this new facility will complement and advance the capabilities of Electron Tubes' products by bringing glass component manufacturing and finishing in-house.
For more information, contact Richard Biggs, Electron Tubes, Bury Street, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 7TA, UK; tel. +44 1895 630771; fax +44 1895 635953; email rbiggs@electron-tubes.co.uk; Web http://www.electrontubes.com.
Xenocs provides X-ray multilayer mirrors and monochromators
Xenocs provides synchrotron beamlines with multilayer mirrors of up to 800 mm long for collecting large solid angles of X-rays on undulators, wigglers and bending magnet sources using angles of incidence 3-4 times as high as that of a standard mirror.
With a bandwidth 100 times as broad as that of a silicon single crystal monochromator, Xenocs's multilayers are optimal for use in experiments such as SAXS, MAD or macromolecular diffraction. Using in-depth grading of the multilayer period, the bandwidth can be tailored to the application. The gradient along the beam footprint allows microfocusing on large unit cell or non-homogeneous samples with a flux intensity gain of several orders of magnitude compared with conventional slits.
Contact Xenocs SA, 19, rue Francois Blumet, 38360 Sassenage, France; tel. +33 4 76 26 95 45; fax +33 4 76 26 95 49; email info@xenocs.com; Web www.xenocs.com.