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Loken Engineering Services

CES 2003 Brian Eckel Award of Excellence in the Project Partnering Category

CES 2003 Brian Eckel Award of Excellence in the Technology Innovation Category

Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy Beamline for the Canadian Light Source

Project Description:

  • The Spectromicroscopy beamline is an insertion device beamline using an elliptically polarized undulator to deliver soft x-rays to a Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope.
  • The engineering effort of this project was to transfer the designs for the Monochromator, Mirror box mechanisms and STXM end station from the ALS and modify the designs.
  • The other component designs for the entire beamline were then designed, manufactured and delivered to the CLS.

The Judges´ Comments - Project Partnering Category:

  • This integrated project required the identification and transfer of appropriate technology from different sources. The engineering consultant led the multi-disciplinary joint venture effort for that purpose.
  • The project success hinged on the active contribution of a number of engineers and scientists in 3 universities and 2 research companies located across North America.
  • Fabrication by local companies will also transfer the necessary skills and technologies to allow Saskatchewan and Canada to export their expertise.

The Judges´ Comments - Technology Innovation Category:

  • As the CLS project progresses, it is the internal scientific components that will complete the project. As the only synchrotron facility in Canada, and one of the few in the world, there is no standard design manual to refer to for a soft x-ray spectromicroscopy beamline. Technological innovation is an important aspect of the detail design and fabrication of these components to such precise standards.
  • An integrated project that required adaptation to the specific operating requirements of the CLS, and consideration of the scientific requirements of the end-users of the beamline.
  • The work undertaken by Loken Engineering Services and its project partners at the CLS and elsewhere, including solid modeling to ensure the listing and fit of all component parts, and utilizing technologies such as UHV precision machining and welding, x-ray optics and high precision actuation, can now be applied to all future beamlines at the CLS and exported to the rest of the world.

 

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