UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research (UGC-DAE CSR), Indore and Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore hereby propose to organize a “School on Synchrotron Radiation and its Applications”. The school will be held at UGC-DAE CSR, Indore during 4-7 August, 2026. The school aims to provide doctoral, postdoctoral researchers and young faculty with a general overview of the characteristics and potential of Indus synchrotron radiation. A broad-based introduction on design, operation and research opportunities offered at the Indus synchrotron sources, their applications in physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology/medicines will be illustrated. In this school, some of the most used experimental methods, e.g., crystallography and spectroscopic techniques will be elaborated in detail.
The format of the school will include lectures by prominent scientists with long standing experience on the use of synchrotron radiation, data analysis, and visit to Indus-1 and Indus- 2 synchrotron beamlines at RRCAT.
Basics of synchrotron radiation: Design, functions of main components: accelerators, insertion devices and beamline optics, operation, characteristics and capabilities, production of X-rays: lab sources and synchrotrons. Free electron laser
Basics of X-ray and Crystallography: X-ray scattering (XRS), scattering of X-ray from noncrystalline and crystalline materials, small angle X-ray scattering, small angle X-ray scattering, powder XRD, Thin film XRD, X Ray Reflectivity etc. [6 Lectures]
Spectroscopy techniques: X-ray absorption processes, X-ray absorption Near-Edge Structure (XANES), extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES), resonant Photoemission Spectroscopy (RPES), photon-polarization-dependent spectroscopies, etc. [6 Lectures]