The ALBA Synchrotron Light Source Authors Ana Belén Martínez ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain Caterina Biscari ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain Gastón García ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain Keywords: synchrotron, beamlines, biosciences, materials science, condensed matter Abstract ALBA is the Spanish third-generation synchrotron light source. It is located in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona) and constitutes the largest scientific infrastructure in Spain. The facility consists of an accelerator complex providing 3 GeV electron beam and several experimental beamlines, with photon energies currently ranging from IR up to hard X-rays of tens of KeV. Different synchrotron radiation techniques are available including diffraction, spectroscopies and imaging. [Contrib Sci 12(1):13-21 (2016)]Keywords: synchrotron · beamlines · biosciences · materials science · condensed matter Downloads PDF Issue Vol. 12 No. 1 (2016) Section Feature articles/Research centres in Catalonia License This work is subject, unless the contrary is indicated in the text, the photographs or in other illustrations, to an Attribution —Non-Commercial— No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons License, the full text of which can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work provided that the author is credited and reuse of the material is restricted to non-commercial purposes only and that no derivative works are created from the original material.