Imaging at Alba

Alba is a 3 GeV, 3 nm emittance synchrotron light source located near Barcelona (www.cells.es). Eight beamlines are in operation and three more are being built. In what follows, we will describe four examples of recent scientific results involving imaging in real space. Mistral is a soft X-ray microscope installed downstream from a bending magnet source devoted to cryo-tomography, and also to material science and magnetism. Circular polarized radiation is obtained by extracting the beam above or below the orbit plane with ancillary slits. Circe is a photoemission beamline with two end stations, one of them a PEEM/LEEM microscope specializing in magnetic imaging, and Miras is an infrared beamline equipped with a microscope for biosciences and material science.