Synchrotoron Radiation - Features of SPring-8

• SPring-8 can create the world's most brilliant light in a broad range of wavelengths from hard x-rays (300 keV) to vacuum ultraviolet (200 eV), and also allows the use of gamma rays and infrared.
• Up to 38 devices can be installed to use the light simultaneously.
• Allows the use of insertion devices with long rows of magnets (27 m compared to the conventional 5 m).
• Allows the installation of long and medium-long beamlines.

SPring-8 produces synchrotron radiation that is 1 million times more brilliant than that offered by conventional x-ray devices with bending magnets and 10 billion times greater than that with undulators.