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Newsletter============================================== CLS-News Vol. 1 No. 1 July 26, 2001 www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada ============================================== Contents:
1.- Update from Executive Director Dr. Michael Bancroft (Contact: bancroft@cls.usask.ca ) Progress continues at a fast pace at the CLS. As summarized by Emil Hallin (#5 below), the planning and design for seven beamlines is well underway (a joint effort by CLS staff and the many academic and government scientists from across Canada). Several contracts have been awarded in the last couple of months, among them, to Inter-City Mechanical Ltd. of Saskatoon for installation of the mechanical systems for the booster and storage ring; and to EDS Canada Ltd. to design the computer and communications infrastructure.Several components of the Booster ring have arrived from the Danish manufacturer- Danfysik. The components in this shipment include the alignment jigs (which will permit the proper placement of the pillars) and the pillars themselves. The CLSI team has produced a new 'first contact' general purpose brochure titled "Progress and Opportunity." There is a 3M-pdf file available for viewing and low-resolution printing at www.lightsource.ca/brochures/progress.pdf --hard copies can also be requested by sending your postal mailing address to outreach@lightsource.ca. We welcome your suggestions for improvements to the web site and other CLS communication tools, as part of a continued effort to meet your needs. For news releases please go to http://www.cls.usask.ca/media/news.shtml 2.- People on the move (Contact: Lavina Carter: 657-3523) We would like to welcome five new employees who have joined us in the last couple of months: Curtis Mullin, Mechanical Engineer; Shannon Mould, Research Technologist; Jeremy Ransom, Mechanical Engineer; Chad Sewell, Research Technologist; and Lori Walerius, Executive Secretary.Roy Thompson, Electronics Technologist, is retiring after 19 years. Roy began his career at the Linear Accelerator, continued on with the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, and remained for the Canadian Light Source Inc. Roy is retiring to spend more time with his family (read fishing!). We will miss you Roy, and wish you the best of luck in your well-deserved new life! Please go to www.lightsource.ca and check out the "Careers & Tenders" section for current job postings. 3.- Notes from the UAC (Contact: Kathleen Gough, kmgough@ms.umanitoba.ca) Your Users Advisory Committee has met several times already this year, to address a wide range of issues on your behalf. Our main effort has gone into organizing the 4th Annual Users' Meeting, which will take place on the weekend of November 16-18 at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Two workshops of interest to users are being planned for the Friday. The AUM will take place on Saturday, with keynote speaker Dr. Robert Birgeneau, President of the University of Toronto and, as many of you are doubtless aware, an internationally renowned hard X-ray synchrotron scientist. On Sunday, rooms are available for Beamline Teams wishing to hold meetings. Please contact Sandra Ribeiro (Sandra.Ribeiro@lightsource.ca ) for more information. We were happy to undertake the task of getting the first of these electronic newsletters prepared and mailed, with particular gratitude to Prof. Adam Hitchcock (McMaster); and we are equally happy to see this task taken over by the expanded CLS Users office, under the capable direction of Ms. Sandra Ribeiro. Some of our other activities have included a question and answer session with the Executive Director, Mike Bancroft, planning for outreach activities such as the Speakers Tour (more about that item in the next issue), reviewing beamline policies and the CLS organizational chart, and providing advice to the Executive Director on these topics. Minutes of all our meetings are posted on our web page, http://www.lightsource.ca/uac along with the text of our question and answer exchange with the Executive Director. Please visit our web page to read more about our activities. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact the CLS Users Office or me. 4.- UMA wins award for CLS design (Contact: Martin.Heikoop@lightsource.ca) UMA Group Ltd. has won an award of excellence for technical innovation from the Consulting Engineers of Saskatchewan recognizing work on the CLS. UMA is providing project and construction management, engineering for the design of the building, and support engineering for the entire $173.5-million project, which is on time and on budget. For full story please go to http://www.lightsource.ca/media/UMAJune01.php 5.- Photon Beamlines at the CLS (Contact: Emil.Hallin@usask.ca) Of the beamlines recommended for design, seven have nearly completed their first design milestone: the production of a Preliminary Design Report. This report contains enough information to provide the engineering basis for the beamline project. Three insertion device based PDR's have been submitted: Variable Line Spacing Plane Grating Monochromator (5 - 250 eV), High Resolution Spherical Grating Monochromator (200 - 1900 eV) and Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy (polarized photons from 200 to 2000 eV). In addition, PDR's from two IR beamlines, a protein crystallography beamline and a hard X-ray general purpose XAFS beamline are expected within the next months. A conceptual design report on the frontends is nearing completion, with a formal review process scheduled for August. Magnetic designs for three insertion devices have been completed and are under review. Magnetic design work on the remaining insertion devices is underway. For more information please go to http://www.lightsource.ca/research/beamline.shtml 6.- Synchrotron workshops at ICASS 2001 in Toronto (Contact: Jeffrey.cutler@lightsource.ca ) The International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy will showcase a workshop "Industrial Applications of Synchrotron Light" and a symposium "Uses of Synchrotron Light" on August 20th and 21st, respectively. While the workshop is for selected current and potential industrial users, all synchrotron users are invited to attend the symposium and share their current work. For more information please go to http://orchard.uwaterloo.ca/Conferences/Icass2001/Workshops.htm 7.- Probing Nanostructured Surfaces by X-ray Microscopy by Stephen Urquhart, U. Saskatchewan (Contact: stephen.urquhart@usask.ca) The properties of nanostructured surfaces are important to many areas of scientific development, from functional materials such as blood contact polymers to fundamental studies such as quantum confinement. Now, thanks to an NSERC Major Installation award, a group of Canadian researchers have a new tool -- synchrotron x-ray photoelectron emission microscopy (X-PEEM) -- to study the chemical structure and properties of nano-structured surfaces. The microscope has been ordered from Elmitec Gmbh for July 2002 delivery to the Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) where it will operate until after the Canadian Light Source is commissioned. X-PEEM microscopy combines the high spatial resolution of x-ray microscopy (20 - 50 nm) with the chemical sensitivity of x-ray absorption spectroscopy to measure the chemical composition and character of surfaces at the nano-scale. Eleven scientists from six universities (Saskatchewan, McMaster, Western Ontario, Laval, INRS, Alberta) will use this X-PEEM microscope to study surface and thin film phenomena in systems such as: blood contact polymers, bio-electronic sensors, polymer surfaces, automotive anti-wear films, nanostructured magnetic films and electro-catalytic composites. Already, through limited access to facilities in the United States, X-PEEM team members have made studies of protein attachment to polymer surfaces (Hitchcock) and of automotive anti-wear films (Bancroft). The pace of research will accelerate greatly when this new X-PEEM microscope is commissioned at the SRC, and further when the microscope is moved to the state-of-the-art spectromicroscopy facility (contact: Dr. K. Kaznacheyev kaznache@cls.usask.ca) at the Canadian Light Source. (This newsletter will normally contain a short description of science activities in which Canadian synchrotron radiation researchers are involved. To nominate topics or people for inclusion in this section, please send e-mail to clsuo@cls.usask.ca) ============================================== CLS-News is an electronic newsletter to keep users informed about developments at the Canadian Light Source, the national synchrotron user facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. The current and past issues of CLS-News will be available from the CLS web site: www.lightsource.ca/news To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your delivery address, send a message indicating your wishes to clsuo@lightsource.ca . We welcome suggestions for topics and content. To translate this document we suggest you go to http://world.altavista.com/ Si vous préférez l'édition française nous vous remercions de bien vouloir contacter clsuo@lightsource.ca avec "Français" dans le "sujet". Ça nous permettra de planifier pour mieux vous servir. ============================================== Last modified: 2008-07-29 14:07:29 |
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