BUILDING A THIRD GENERATION SOURCE (INVITED)

Through a ten-year period of preparation work, from the feasibility study phase, the conceptual design phase, the engineering design phase, to construction, installation, and, finally, the commissioning phase, the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (SRRC) celebrated the inauguration of its third generation synchrotron light source, the first of its kind in Taiwan as well as in Asia, on 16 October, 1993. In March 1994, the beam current achieved 450 mA, far exceeding the design goal of 200 mA. In April of the same year, the ring energy had been upgraded from 1.3 to 1.5 GeV. Three high-resolution vacuum ultraviolet photon beamlines were successfully commissioned. Synchrotron radiation experiments have been carried out. The following report will brief on the SRRC facility and concentrate mainly on constructing a successful source in lack of the needed accelerator expertise and experience in Taiwan. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.