BUILDING DESIGN by FOJAB arkitekter

© Felix Gerlach

Architects: FOJAB arkitekter, Snøhetta

Location: Fotongatan 2, 225 92 Lund, Sweden

Landscape: Snøhetta

Area: 52890.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Felix Gerlach, Courtesy of Snøhetta

Total Contractor: Peab Sverige AB

Commission In Charge: Janis Kursis

Design: Greger Dahlström

Assisting Architects: Göran Hellquist and Jonas Ruthblad

Courtesy of Snøhetta

BUILDING DESIGN by FOJAB arkitekterWhen electrons accelerated close to the speed of light are forced to change course from its linear direction, they release energy which transforms to soft and hard x-rays ? synchrotron light ? that can be used for examination of the material characteristics on molecule level. This kind of radiation was first observed in an accelerator at the laboratories of General Electrics at the end of the 1940s. The technique was further developed at Stanford University at the beginning of the 1950s. The first storage ring for synchrotron light in Sweden was MAX I built in the middle of the 1980s. The storage rings MAX II and MAX II were taken in use in 1996 and 2006. Today there are about 50 synchrotron light laboratories world-wide.
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