Emil HALLIN
Canadian Light Source

The Applied Science Program at the Canadian Light Source

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The Canadian Light Source (CLS), a 2.9 GeV synchrotron facility, is currently being constructed at the University of Saskatchewan. The building is complete, the accelerator has been operated at a stored current of 100 mA and the first light from an insertion device has been extracted from the storage ring tunnel. The facility (with seven beamlines) will be operational by the end of 2004.

Most of these beamlines and associated endstations will be extremely useful for materials and/or surface analysis - using infrared spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy, an x-ray microprobe and soft and hard x-ray XANES and EXAFS. The Canadian Light Source is broadly focused on research in materials science, environmental sciences and the life sciences.

Recent Canadian results at the Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Madison, and at other foreign sources such as NSLS, APS and Daresbury will illustrate the importance of these measurements for the detailed study of materials and surfaces.