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Synchrotron radiation facilities

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Synchrotron radiation facilities — with their increasingly high source brilliance, wide tunability and time resolution capabilities — have revolutionized X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy and imaging research.

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Figure 1: A plan view of the Daresbury, UK SRS synchrotron radiation facility.
Figure 2: Aerial views of the largest synchrotron radiation facilities available world wide: a, the ESRF in Grenoble; b, the APS in Argonne, Illinois, USA; and c, SPring-8 near Himeji in Japan.
Figure 3: A comparison of representative synchrotron radiation brilliance spectra of different sources in the United States.

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Helliwell, J. Synchrotron radiation facilities. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5 (Suppl 8), 614–617 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/1307

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