ANKA - Service-oriented synchrotron radiation facility

ANKA is a 2.5 GeV synchrotron radiation facility under construction at Fors chungszentrum Karlsruhe. ANKA is based on a 2.5 GeV electron storage ring i njected from a 500 MeV booster synchrotron and a 50 MeV racetrack microtron . Nominal circulating electron current will be 400 mA. The facility is sche duled to become operational in fall 2000. ANKA will deliver photons predomi nantly in the hard X-ray range but it will also feature both XUV and infrar ed beamlines. So far, all beamlines will use bending magnets as sources, wh ile provision is made to install appropriate insertion devices later on. AN KA has a novel mission which is characterised by giving preference to provi ding service to customers while maintaining a significant fraction of resea rch work. ANKA will offer full service in X-ray lithography, mainly far mic ro- and nanofabrication, and in analysing and investigating non-destructive ly various structural, mechanical, chemical, electronic, magnetic, and mole cular properties of samples and components.