Diamond Light Source Photographic Exhibition

70 71 Part of Diamond’s sample preparation capability located at the Research Complex at Harwell – a robot deposits droplets into plates to grow protein crystals so that they can be studied to support structure- based drug development.​ (Image: Andrew Brookes) A view of the tiny magnets making up an Insertion Device – an upper layer and a lower layer with only a 2 millimetre gap between the two. These magnets wiggle the electrons to generate extremely bright X-rays for use in experiments.​ (Image: Stephen Kill)