Applied Sciences (May 2017)

Construction and Commissioning of PAL-XFEL Facility

  • In Soo Ko,
  • Heung-Sik Kang,
  • Hoon Heo,
  • Changbum Kim,
  • Gyujin Kim,
  • Chang-Ki Min,
  • Haeryong Yang,
  • Soung Youl Baek,
  • Hyo-Jin Choi,
  • Geonyeong Mun,
  • Byoung Ryul Park,
  • Young Jin Suh,
  • Dong Cheol Shin,
  • Jinyul Hu,
  • Juho Hong,
  • Seonghoon Jung,
  • Sang-Hee Kim,
  • KwangHoon Kim,
  • Donghyun Na,
  • Soung Soo Park,
  • Yong Jung Park,
  • Young Gyu Jung,
  • Seong Hun Jeong,
  • Hong Gi Lee,
  • Sangbong Lee,
  • Sojeong Lee,
  • Bonggi Oh,
  • Hyung Suck Suh,
  • Jang-Hui Han,
  • Min Ho Kim,
  • Nam-Suk Jung,
  • Young-Chan Kim,
  • Mong-Soo Lee,
  • Bong-Ho Lee,
  • Chi-Won Sung,
  • Ik-Su Mok,
  • Jung-Moo Yang,
  • Yong Woon Parc,
  • Woul-Woo Lee,
  • Chae-Soon Lee,
  • Hocheol Shin,
  • Ji Hwa Kim,
  • Yongsam Kim,
  • Jae Hyuk Lee,
  • Sang-Youn Park,
  • Jangwoo Kim,
  • Jaeku Park,
  • Intae Eom,
  • Seungyu Rah,
  • Sunam Kim,
  • Ki Hyun Nam,
  • Jaehyun Park,
  • Jaehun Park,
  • Sangsoo Kim,
  • Soonnam Kwon,
  • Ran An,
  • Sang Han Park,
  • Kyung Sook Kim,
  • Hyojung Hyun,
  • Seung Nam Kim,
  • Seonghan Kim,
  • Chung-Jong Yu,
  • Bong-Soo Kim,
  • Tai-Hee Kang,
  • Kwang-Woo Kim,
  • Seung-Hwan Kim,
  • Hee-Seock Lee,
  • Heung-Soo Lee,
  • Ki-Hyeon Park,
  • Tae-Yeong Koo,
  • Dong-Eon Kim,
  • Ki Bong Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/app7050479
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 5
p. 479

Abstract

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The construction of Pohang Accelerator Laboratory X-ray Free-Electron Laser (PAL-XFEL), a 0.1-nm hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility based on a 10-GeV S-band linear accelerator (LINAC), is achieved in Pohang, Korea by the end of 2016. The construction of the 1.11 km-long building was completed by the end of 2014, and the installation of the 10-GeV LINAC and undulators started in January 2015. The installation of the 10-GeV LINAC, together with the undulators and beamlines, was completed by the end of 2015. The commissioning began in April 2016, and the first lasing of the hard X-ray FEL line was achieved on 14 June 2016. The progress of the PAL-XFEL construction and its commission are reported here.

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