Canadian Light Source Inc. (CLS)

The Canadian Light Source, a national research facility of the University of Saskatchewan, is the only synchrotron in Canada and one of the largest scientific infrastructure investments in the country’s history. More than 1,000 academic, government and industry scientists from across Canada and around the world access the CLS every year, in innovative health, agriculture, environment, and advanced materials research. 

Synchrotron light's high brilliance, high intensity, sharp focus, and tunability offer a huge advantage over conventional techniques. 

Many synchrotron techniques can be performed with little to no sample manipulation or preparation before analysis, detecting even low concentrations of elemental forms. Fast, in-situ, non-destructive experiments allow scientists to use our tools in a broad range of research areas, furthering knowledge in myriad fields. 

CLS enables an extremely wide range of science projects on multiple experimental stations (beamlines) operating simultaneously. The beamlines are optimized for select parts of the light spectrum and used in a broad range of experimental techniques including spectroscopy, diffraction, imaging from the macro to the nanoscale and combinations thereof. Data collection can be relatively rapid (on the order of sub-second) and is of a quality and breadth not possible at any other facility in Canada.

The Industry Services group, a dedicated team of experts whose mission is to bring the power of synchrotron-based tools to Canadian industry, offers a wide range of services on a fee-for-service basis, from purchased access to full-service experimental design, execution, and analysis, unlocking unparalleled insights into sample composition and structure, spanning macro to molecular scales.