Highlights from our recent beamtime season

14 Aug 2026

It has been a busy and exciting beamtime season for our team, with a series of experiments keeping everyone on the move. One highlight was the successful collaborative XRD experiment shown here, carried out at the P21.1 beamline of DESY in April. Tianren, Mario, and Xunyang combined uniaxial strain and magnetic field to explore our samples under challenging experimental conditions—and brought home plenty of exciting data. This experiment led to our recent study, Strain-tunable charge localization coupled to complex magnetic orders in EuAl4, revealing how uniaxial pressure and magnetic field tune the coupling between charge localization and complex magnetic order. Many thanks to Martin von Zimmermann and Igoa Saldaña from P21.1 for their excellent support throughout the experiment. A wonderful team effort and a memorable highlight of the season!