SGMS Meeting 2001

Research opportunities at the Swiss Light Source

Rafael Abela
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The design of the Swiss Light Source has to fulfill a variety of requirements. It need to provide hard X-Rays for the large community of materials sciences and crystallography researches, while also serving the broad community of surface scientists with soft x-rays and ultraviolet photons. After a construction period of only three years, the first beamlines are in the commisioning phase and pilot experiments have been performed. The outstanding parameters of the facility and new developments on the accelerator, the beamlines and the related experimental infrastructure will be presented. A short description on the present research possibilities will be given. The last part of the presentation will be focussed on future research areas.