Research facilities at the Indus Synchrotrons

Indus-1 and Indus-2 are two synchrotron radiation sources at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology. These are the first synchrotron radiation sources in India. Indus-1 is a 450 MeV electron synchrotron, which has five operational beamlines designed primarily for experiments in the soft X-ray and the VUV region. Indus-2 is a 2.5 GeV synchrotron that has eight operational user beamlines designed for experiments in the hard X-ray region. Four more user beamlines are in an advanced stage of commissioning. This talk will focus briefly on the Indus machines and then go on to explain in detail the available experimental facilities at the Indus beamlines.

About Dr. Tapas Ganguli:

Dr. Tapas Ganguli is presently associated with the Indus Synchrotrons Utilization Division at RRCAT where his main interests are
in XRD, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy of multiferroics, ferroelectroics and amorphous metallic alloys systems. His previous work was on the design and development of a metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy system for the growth of III-nitride semiconductors, and on pulsed laser deposition of ZnSe epilayers and their characterization.