National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS

The SOLARIS synchrotron is the most modern and largest multidisciplinary research tool in Poland. A synchrotron is a cyclic accelerator, i.e. a device in which particles are accelerated and they travel around a fixed closed-loop path. In the SOLARIS synchrotron, electrons are accelerated. When the path of electrons rushing at a speed close to the speed of light is curved (so that they move in a circle), electromagnetic radiation, called synchrotron light, is produced. This light is taken out of the synchrotron through to the so-called beamlines. At the end of the beamlines, experimental end-stations are mounted. Thus, a synchrotron is a device for producing light that allows conducting research in many natural and technical sciences, such as biology, chemistry, physics, material engineering, nanotechnology, medicine, pharmacology, geology and crystallography.