Paid research access includes the calibration and optimisation of beamline instruments and equipment followed by either running the experiments or supporting you at the Swiss Light Source during your experiments. Cleanrooms and other customisable offline services that are required can also be arranged. 

We provide scientific consultations under the strictest confidentiality, and if needed, our contract office will arrange non-disclosure agreements (NDA) with you before any discussions take place.

Services will be provided either by our team of industry partner scientists at the Swiss Light Source beamlines or our spin-off companies: EXPOSE for protein crystallography, or Excelsus Structural Solutions for materials science. 

Data results are protected and available only to the customer. 

In addition to technical services, our experts are also available to work on data analysis. 

• Straightforward, fast, paid for, confidential access to the Swiss Light Source

• fast access to measurements

• Guaranteed time-slot for experiments

• Data confidentiality

• No obligation to publish results

• First contact with SLS Techno Trans AG. This is the first information exchange regarding your requirements.
• NDA upon request.
• In-depth information exchange between industry experts and Swiss Light Source experts. 
• Visit to Swiss Light Source (SLS). Choice of SLS analysis tools. Definition of SLS experiment.
• Offer from SLS Techno Trans AG, including costings and scheduling of measurements.
• Data acquisition.
• Analysis and report by SLS experts.
• Results meeting with customers, SLS experts and SLS Techno Trans AG.
• Next steps.

Different charging schemes have been developed to meet the individual needs of our customers.

We will provide an offer consisting of the complete service package and fees based on the sample properties, the complexity of the experiment,  the need for additional services.

Experiments using standard measurements at the SLS can typically be scheduled within 4-6 weeks from your first contact with our team at SLS Techno Trans AG.