Pohang Light Source (PLS) — Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (EXT-018)

Summary 🟡 ~

• Owner Unit: External partner organization
• Sub-unit: Pohang Light Source (synchrotron)
• Content Type: partnership
• Campus/Location: Off-campus (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, South Korea)
• Last Verified: July 1, 2026

Organization

The Pohang Light Source (PLS) is a synchrotron radiation facility at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (EXT-017). Researchers collect time-resolved X-ray scattering, spectroscopy, and imaging data via user beamtime.

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: PLS synchrotron user facility at PAL; international beamtime access.
• Access URL: www.pal.postech.ac.kr
• Contact name: Office of Research Services
• Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
• Verification date: 2026-07-01
• Source URLs:
• www.pal.postech.ac.kr
• doi.org/10.1063/1.4943304

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul-affiliated ultrafast instrumentation work has been demonstrated at PLS. PUB-003 reports a time-resolved x-ray scattering instrument using the full repetition rate of x-ray pulses at the Pohang Light Source (Landahl coauthor; DePaul Physics).

Verification

• Status: likely (~)
• Confidence: 85/100
• Rationale: Named facility use in publication text; full-text facility-evidence pass.
• Last verified: 2026-07-01
• Evidence:
• PUB-003 abstract names experiments at the Pohang Light Source
• Landahl DePaul faculty profile lists Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 035107 (2016)

Equipment

PLS synchrotron user facility at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

Documented Relationships

• EXT-017 - Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (Parent organization)
• CSH-007 - Physics Laser Timing & FPGA Laboratories (Faculty lead — ultrafast x-ray program)

Linked publications

• Demonstration of a time-resolved x-ray scattering instrument utilizing the full-repetition rate of x-ray pulses at the Pohang Light Source (Coauthor) — DOI (PUB-003)
• Synchronizing femtosecond laser with x-ray synchrotron operating at arbitrarily different frequencies — DOI (PUB-149)
• Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Ultrafast Laser Heated Silicon Measured by Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction — DOI (PUB-150)
• Towards a Counting Point Detector for Nanosecond Coherent X-ray Science — DOI (PUB-151)

Documented connections

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Publications

• Demonstration of a time-resolved x-ray scattering instrument utilizing the full-repetition rate of x-ray pulses at the Pohang Light Source (2016) — documented, uses · DOI¹
• Structural measurement of electron-phonon coupling and electronic thermal transport across a metal-semiconductor interface (2022) — documented, uses · DOI²
• Synchronizing femtosecond laser with x-ray synchrotron operating at arbitrarily different frequencies (2014) — documented, uses · DOI³
• Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Ultrafast Laser Heated Silicon Measured by Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction (2021) — documented, uses · DOI⁴
• Towards a Counting Point Detector for Nanosecond Coherent X-ray Science (2022) — documented, uses · DOI⁵
• Time-Resolved Structural Measurement of Thermal Resistance across a Buried Semic (2023) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁶
• Measuring femtometer lattice displacements driven by free carrier diffusion in a (2018) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁷

Related facilities

• Advanced Photon Source — shared documented publication(s): PUB-049²

People on linked publications

• Eric Landahl (coauthor; PUB-003)¹

Sources

1. Title and abstract: "Demonstration of a time-resolved x-ray scattering instrument utilizing the full-repetition rate of x-ray pulses at the Pohang Light Source.". DOI
2. Acknowledgments (full text): "Preliminary sample characterization at 1C PAL-KRISS beamline at PLS-II were supported…". DOI
3. Implemented at the Photon Test Facility beamline of Pohang Light Source. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
4. Dense 500 MHz standard fill pattern in the PLS-II storage ring. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
5. Commissioning experiments are performed at the 1C PAL-KRISS beamline at PLS-II of South Korea. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
6. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
7. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source