Star Research Infrastructure

The STAR infrastructure opens new possibilities of investigation in all the Material Science fields exploiting its un-precedented high energy X-rays and the large probed areas. Their high penetration depths will allow to examine the internal structure of materials together with their chemical composition and physical structure by means of a non-invasive and non-destructive techniques. An intrinsic peculiarity of the techniques allowed by STAR is the possibility to get full-scale evidences on large objects as devices and handictrafts. This is the way to recover information by looking to the hidden layers with resolution down to few micrometres making use of the high contrast given by varying chemical composition and/or density of the investigated material. STAR is designed as a User Facility open to the researcher as the large user facilities such as Synchrotrons.