Daresbury Laboratory
Managed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory is, along with Oxford Rutherford, one of the UK’s two large scale science facilities.
The facility employs 500 staff who support up to 5,000 scientists and engineers. The laboratory is host to a number of important resources and facilities that have strategic importance for the research community:
- The Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS), a major STFC facility, which delivers radiation (from infrared to hard X-ray), and is used to investigate, treat and transform properties of materials for a wide number of applications such as engineering, chemistry, biosciences and forensic sciences. £2m funding (August 2006) for the 4GLS (4th Generation Light Source) project has been used to build the (now nearly completed) Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP) – an innovative X-ray energy source which can generate coherent synchrotron light 1000 times greater than present storage rings.
- The HPCx supercomputer; a project ran by the University of Edinburgh, STFC and IBM.
- Chemical Database Service providing free access to chemical information for the UK academic community.
- The Medium Energy Ion Scattering Facility (MEIS) enables UK HEI researchers and industry to investigate the surface structure and properties of crystalline materials.
- The National Centre for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis (NCESS) brings together industry and academe to address problems in materials science, surface science and engineering.
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