Second Phase of Chinese Synchronous Radiation Lab in Progress
The second stage of China's National Synchronous Radiation Laboratory in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, will be completed by next year. The second stage, launched in 1997, will cost 118 million yuan and will build eight light beam experiment stations, bringing the total number in the lab to 14.
Zhang Xinyi, the lab's director, said expansion will greatly extend the working hours of the light source system and raise the brightness and stability of light beams.
Zhang said that more Chinese and foreign scientists will be invited to work at the lab in years to come.
Synchronous radiation light source plays a key role in the research of basic theories and high technology physics, chemistry, new materials, medicine, microscopy, and super integrated circuits.
