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Technologies, Inc. Compact Light Source (CLS)
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Technologies, Inc. Compact Light Source (CLS): Supported by the SBIR program and as a participant in the Protein Structure Initiative, Technologies, Inc. has designed, demonstrated, and will manufacture a room-sized compact X-ray source based on a table-top synchrotron device which provides an electron beam for interactions with a laser beam. The resulting tunable X-ray beam is of a quality, flux, and brilliance comparable to those provided by elaborate and very expensive synchrotron X-ray sources more than two hundred times larger and located at only a few facilities nationally. The CLS will allow scientists in academics and industry to pursue state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation experiments in their own laboratories with significant advantages in privacy, speed and experimental efficiency. This development will provide a response to the growing demand for capabilities for macromolecular crystallography, including the initiatives by Institutes of the National Institutes of Science such as the NMS PSI. The impact of these developments will also be realized in other diverse fields of science ranging from materials science to emerging technologies for biomedical imaging.
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