Synchrotron Radiation Facilities

John A. Venables

Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona,
and CPES, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

This is one of several files containing lists of web-based resources for use in connection with my graduate courses, web-based articles and talks. If you have items you would like me to add, please email me. However, I am aiming to be exemplary rather than comprehensive, so please don't be offended if I leave material out. Latest version of this document 5th August 2003.

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Synchrotron radiation facilities provide beam lines giving access to high intensity radiation from the visible through to the UV, VUV, soft and hard X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. In surface and thin film science these facilities are used for a wide range of diffraction and spectroscopic studies. The following are some of the major sites, and rather complete international listings are given on the HASYLab, Spring8 and ALS sites shown last. Note that some of these sites open in a new window.

In the USA, there are several sources, including the Advanced Light Source (ALS) in Berkeley, CA, and the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) in Brookhaven, NY.
In France, there is the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble.
In the UK, the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) is located in Daresbury, Cheshire.
In Germany, we find (at least) HASYLab in Hamburg and BESSY in Berlin.
In Italy, Elettra can be found in Trieste.
In Japan, the Photon Factory is part of the KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation) in Tsukuba. The 8 GeV Super Photon Ring SPring-8 is in Nishi-Harima, east of Osaka.
In Brazil, the LNLS (National Synchrotron Light Laboratory) is the first major synchrotron facility in the southern hemisphere.

The HASYLab site in Germany has links to Synchrotron Sources around the world. A similar list of links is maintained by SPring-8 in Japan and by the ALS in the USA.

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