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Dear Visitor,

Welcome to the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source!

Synchrotron radiation has become, in the course of the last three decades, a powerful tool for analytical purposes and for advanced fabrication, indispensable for a great many of disciplines such as the life sciences, materials science, environmental analysis, and micro/nano fabrication. It allows to look into living organisms, man-made materials and advanced engineering components, in vivo, almost non-destructively, in situ, and with spatial and time resolution, showing many more features in structural, chemical, electronic, and magnetic properties than conventional methods can do.

Singapore is a special place for synchrotron radiation. Due to the strong concentration of high-tech industry and the high level of scientific research and education there is a huge potential for synchrotron radiation applications. It is our mission to bring synchrotron radiation into the industrial, institutional, and academic daily life in order to add value to the wealth-creating process.

Setting up beam lines and experimental facilities at a fast pace SSLS is in a phase of strong growth. Our first beam line is being installed these days and within one year we plan to have three more ready. This is a very favourable situation for those who join us now. Partners from industry and various research organisations have already teamed up with us.

In that spirit, I would like to encourage all of you, researchers and engineers in academia, research institutes, and industry, as well as students of any level, to contact us. Find out what promise synchrotron radiation would hold for you. We know from experience that once we've started talking to each other beneficial ways of working together were readily found. We make light work for you.

You can reach me under moser@nus.edu.sg. I do look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely
Herbert O. Moser

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