Phase-I Beamline Plan of the Taiwan Photon Source

Over the three decades since the feasibility study for the establishment of the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) in 1981, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) has evolved into a well-known light source facility. With rapid advances in the international scientific community, as well as increasing demands for bright X-rays from users to facilitate their challenging scientific experiments, a point was reached at which the construction of a new synchrotron facility was vital to ensuring that NSRRC remained globally competitive. After conducting numerous assessments with our users, the decision to construct the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) was made at a board meeting held in July 2004. This large-scale project will establish, at the current campus of NSRRC, a new, low-emittance, synchrotron light source of circumference 518 m and with an electron beam of energy 3 GeV.