BEST Subsidiary RI Research Instruments GmbH Awarded Contracts for Superconducting Accelerating Modules from South Korea & Gr...
May 09 2012 - 6:00AM
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RI Research Instruments GmbH (RI), a majority-owned subsidiary
of Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST), Inc., today
announced the award of a contract with the South Korea-based Pohang
Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) for the supply of a 500 MHz
superconducting accelerator module, as well as the award of another
contract with the Diamond Light Source (DLS) in Great Britain for a
similar 500 MHz superconducting accelerator module. The value of
both contracts together is approximately $5.2 million.
The PAL contract represents the third module ordered by this
customer. In March 2010, RI received a contract for the supply of
two superconducting accelerator modules, which are now being
prepared for delivery to PAL. All three accelerator modules are
important for the upgrade of PAL’s third generation synchrotron
light source, the Pohang Light Source (PLS). The PLS is operated as
a national user facility designed to provide synchrotron radiation
with continuous wavelengths down to 1 micrometer, owned and
operated by PAL and the Pohang University of Science and Technology
(POSTECH ) on behalf of the Korean government. The PLS, which has
been operated for 15 years with non-superconducting,
radio-frequency accelerating systems, will be upgraded by 2012/2013
to produce synchrotron radiation with 100 times higher
brightness.
DLS is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located
at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. By
accelerating electrons to near light-speed, DLS generates brilliant
beams of light from infra-red to X-rays. DLS operates three such
accelerator modules purchased previously from RI’s predecessor.
Those modules are used to accelerate the beams at DLS to 3 GeV. The
newly contracted fourth module will initially serve as a spare
module.
Both contracts cover the engineering, manufacturing,
integration, testing, delivery and installation of these 500 MHz
superconducting accelerator modules.
Hanspeter Vogel, Managing Director of RI Research Instruments,
explained: “Including these two awards, RI has now been contracted
for 16 such accelerator modules within the past 15 years for light
sources and storage rings in Taiwan, Canada, USA, Great Britain,
China and South Korea. Based on the design originally developed by
Cornell University, RI refined the technology to industrial
standards and is well positioned for future applications of this
technology in synchrotron light sources and other accelerator
projects using superconducting radio-frequency (srf)
technology.”
About RI Research Instruments and Bruker Energy &
Supercon Technologies, Inc.:
RI Research Instruments GmbH is a world leader in the
development and manufacturing of normal and superconducting rf
cavities and systems, linear accelerators, as well as special
products for physics and energy research, scientific, medical and
industrial applications. RI products also include high-performance
electron and ion sources, particle beamlines and diagnostics,
research reactor subunits as well as vacuum and cryogenic systems.
BEST has operations in the US, the UK and Germany, and is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR).
For more information on RI or BEST, please visit:
www.research-instruments.de or www.bruker-est.com.
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