MAX IV is the planned next-generation synchrotron radiation facility in Lund, Sweden. Its design and planning has been carried out within the Swedish national laboratory, MAX-lab, which operates three accelerators for synchrotron radiation research.
On 27 April 2009 the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research, Swedish Research Council, Lund University, Region Skåne and Vinnova, a Swedish government funding agency, decided to fund the research center.[1].
2010 was the inauguration of the construction site of MAX IV, on the fields of Brunnshög in Lund North East will the new laboratory be built. There will be two storage rings at the MAX IV-laboratory. One smaller ring with a circumference on 96 meters and one bigger ring with a circumference on 528 meters.