THE LYNCEAN COMPACT LIGHT SOURCE (CLS)

A breakthrough in local, on-demand X-ray synchrotron light

The Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS) is a breakthrough technology that addresses the increasing demand for access to high quality X-rays by offering the possibility of a synchrotron beamline for home laboratory applications. The Lyncean CLS X-ray beam shares some favorable features of synchrotron light – a continuously tunable energy spectrum and high spatial coherence – combined with some unique attributes such as intrinsically narrow bandwidth (few %) and a moderate (few milliradian) diverging cone beam. The highly peaked spectrum provides an extremely low-noise background compared to both conventional sources and many synchrotron beamlines. The cone beam divergence is small enough to be efficiently focused with x-ray optics yet large enough to provide a nearly uniform area beam by letting the native beam drift several meters. The Lyncean CLS X-rays provide powerful probes to reveal a range of physical structure down to the atomic scale. The Lyncean CLS is useful across many disciplines of X-ray science, including materials, nanotechnology, structural biology, medical sciences, semiconductor metrology, pharmaceutical development, and other chemical and physical sciences. The Lyncean CLS provides scientists with access to local, on-demand synchrotron light, allowing for an unprecedented new level of productivity.

The Lyncean CLS miniature synchrotron source allows for energy and scale reduction by a factor of 200

The Lyncean CLS development builds on the U.S. investment in large synchrotrons, but with a new technology that allows the source to be very compact. Conventional synchrotron light sources employ multi-GeV electron beams that are stored in large rings of magnets to generate intense, bright, 1 Å wavelength radiation. The Lyncean CLS employs an electron beam and laser beam to accomplish the same effect. The shift from periodic magnets used in a typical synchrotron light source, to the laser beam used in the Lyncean CLS, allows a reduction of energy and scale by a factor 200 – a stadium size machine becomes a room size machine!

Enabling the future of laboratory X-ray diffraction, phase contrast CT imaging, spectroscopy and fluorescence analysis

The Lyncean CLS is a small tunable X-ray source that can fit into a typical experimenter’s laboratory and can be used in much the same way as an X-ray beamline at a large synchrotron facility. X-ray scientists at synchrotron laboratories around the world have developed a vast array of applications over several decades, many of which cannot be exploited using conventional sources, but can be performed by the Lyncean CLS. By opening access to these powerful x-ray applications, the Lyncean CLS enables new avenues of discovery to a broad range of researchers.

THE COMPACT X-RAY STATION (CXS)

Enabling local laboratory protein crystallography, micro-tomography, dark field microscopy, CD-SAXS and more

The Compact X-Ray Station (CXS) is a crystallography endstation and X-ray optics developed for use with the Lyncean Compact Light Source.

The X-ray optics consists of a K-B system of multilayer optics specifically designed by Lyncean to re-image the X-ray source size (crystallography applications, powder diffraction, small angle scattering, or other focused beam applications.

The endstation is a mini-hutch that may be configured for different applications.  For diffraction experiments, a commercial diffractometer and X-ray detector may be installed (shown is a marresearch dtb). For imaging research applications or other scientific use, the endstation may be configured with a general purpose optical breadboard. The endstation itself has kinematic mounts and motorized alignment to quickly change configurations over a wide range of use.

THE LYNCEAN COMPACT EUV SOURCE (CES)

A revolutionary accelerator based EUV lithography source

The latest development program at Lyncean Technologies is the Compact EUV Source (CES), an accelerator based 1 kW EUV lithography source. Much of the technology that will be developed for the CES is leveraged from the technology from the CLS. In addition, accelerator based sources generate light in a clean, high vacuum environment and are inherently very reliable, two features that make them ideal for high volume manufacturing.

Details and updates about the Lyncean Compact EUV Source (CES) will be posted as they are made public.