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Taiwan unveils new synchrotron

Nature Photonics volume 9, pages 292–293 (2015)Cite this article

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Competitive activities around the globe to develop the world's brightest synchrotron light source have accelerated in recent years. Taiwanese scientists now aspire to be at the top of the list with the recently constructed Taiwan Photon Source.

“With the coming installation of superconducting radio-frequency (RF) cavities and insertion devices, we intend to beat the record of synchrotron brilliance by the end of this year,” Shangjr Gwo, Director of NSRRC, told Nature Photonics.

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Figure 1: The National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) is located in the west corner of Hsinchu Science Park, about 70 km south of Taipei.

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Figure 2: The landscape of various synchrotrons around the world in terms of physical size (the circumference of the electron storage ring) and the emittance of the electron beam.

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