CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute

Officially the Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission, more commonly CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute, is a project and a research center-institute in Yerevan, Armenia. CANDLE is a project of 3 gigaelectronvolts energy, third generation synchrotron light source for fundamental, industrial and applied research in biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, material and environmental sciences.

Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission
Synchrotron Research Institute
CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute
TypePublic
Established2010
DirectorProf. Vasili Tsakanov
Location,
40°13′21″N 44°33′10″E / 40.22250°N 44.55278°E / 40.22250; 44.55278
AffiliationsMinistry of Education and Science of Armenia
Websitecandle.am

Overall the facility is expected to serve more than 40 research groups simultaneously supporting the spectroscopy, scattering, imaging and time resolved experiments.

The project is claimed to be demanded by international scientific community and is expected to have a vast impact on development of science in Armenia.[1]

The government of Armenia allocated an area of 20 ha near the town of Abovyan for the upcoming projects of the center.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Armenia with CANDLE project and without it: two different countries (in Russian)". Golos Aarmenii. 2010-02-04. Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  2. ^ New land allocated for the CANDLE project
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