First Synchroton Radiation Source commissioned

MUMBAI, JUNE 14: Indus-I, the country8217;s first Synchroton Radiation Source was commissioned on Sunday at the Centre for Advanced Technology CAT, Indore, in presence of Atomic Energy Commission AEC chief Dr R Chidambaram.

Synchroton Radiation Source SRS is hailed as one of the most important research tool developed since the invention of microscope. With the commissioning of SRS, India has joined a select band of dozen nations in the world who have the capability to design and construct such highly-complex scientific facility It has medical application such as determining the structure of proteins. In industry it can be used for the development of extremely small micro-chips and production of micro machines including miniature pumps and motors with a diameter no bigger than a strand of human hair.

Synchrotron Radiation is the light emitted when electrons travelling at almost the speed of light follow a curved path under the influence of a magnetic field. The synchrotron radiation is emitted in anarrow cone typically much less than a tenth of a degree. The radiation is extremely bright and continuous in wavelength extending from infrared through visible, ultra violet, soft X-rays to hard X-rays.