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: May 28, 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)