Editing Canadian Light Source (section)

===Operation and expansion: 2005–2012===
[[Image:CLS in 2008.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The CLS building in 2008, with the expansion for the BMIT beamline on the left]]
[[Image:Brockhouse construction.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The expansion for the Brockhouse beamlines under construction in July 2012]]
The initial funding included seven beamlines, referred to as Phase I, which covered the full spectral range: two [[infrared]] beamlines, three soft X-ray beamlines and two hard X-ray beamlines.<ref name="Bancroft" /> Further beamlines were built in two further phases, II (7 beamlines) and III (5 beamlines), announced in 2004 and 2006 respectively. Most of these were funded through applications to CFI by individual universities including UWO, the [[University of British Columbia]] and [[Guelph University]]<ref name="progress" />

In March 2005 leading infrared researcher Tom Ellis joined the CLS from [[Acadia University]] as Director of Research. He had previously spent 16 years at the [[Université de Montréal]].<ref name="Ellis">{{cite web|url=http://announcements.usask.ca/news/archive/2005/03/leading_scienti.html |title=Leading Scientist Recruited as Research Director for Canadian Light Source at the U of S |date=1 March 2005 |accessdate=28 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409000406/http://announcements.usask.ca/news/archive/2005/03/leading_scienti.html |archivedate=9 April 2008 }}</ref>

The first external user was hosted in 2005, and the first research papers with results from the CLS were published in March 2006 – one from the University of Saskatchewan on [[peptide]]s and the other from the University of Western Ontario on materials for [[OLED|organic light-emitting diodes]].<ref name="Flow">{{cite web| url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=7799751a-5551-44c7-aa98-439657b83dad| title=Research results begin to flow from synchrotron| date=18 April 2006| accessdate=27 July 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625091033/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=7799751a-5551-44c7-aa98-439657b83dad| archive-date=25 June 2014| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref> A committee was set up in 2006 to [[peer review]] proposals for beamtime, under the chairmanship of Adam Hitchcock of [[McMaster University]]. By 2007 more than 150 external users had used the CLS,<ref name="SRNupdate">{{Cite journal
|last1=Hallin |first1=Emil
|last2=de Jong |first2=Mark
|last3=Ellis |first3=Thomas
|last4=Thomlinson |first4=William
|last5=Dalzell |first5=Matthew
|year=2012
|title=Canadian Light Source Facility Update
|journal=Synchrotron Radiation News
|volume=19 |issue=6
|pages=7–12
|doi=10.1080/08940880601064950
|s2cid=123120504
}}</ref> and all seven of the initial beamlines had achieved significant results.<ref name="Newest" />

The CLS building was also expanded in two phases. A glass and steel expansion was completed in 2007 to house the phase II medical imaging beamline BMIT,<ref name="expansion1">{{cite web | url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=f440bd17-97d9-424f-8b6f-ee9b4e00d619 | title=Canada's medical imaging "crown jewel" takes shape | date=1 December 2007 | accessdate=27 July 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625092605/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=f440bd17-97d9-424f-8b6f-ee9b4e00d619 | archive-date=25 June 2014 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and construction on the expansion needed to house the phase III Brockhouse beamline started in July 2011<ref name="expansion2">{{cite web| url=http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/newsletter_july2011.php| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115134630/http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/newsletter_july2011.php| url-status=dead| archive-date=15 January 2013| title=CLS Newsletter| date=27 July 2011| accessdate=27 July 2012}}</ref> and is still ongoing as of July 2012.

Bill Thomlinson retired in 2008,<ref>[https://archive.today/20130115141201/http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/newsletter_june2007.php CLS Newsletter June 2007 ]</ref> and in May of that year physics professor Josef Hormes of the [[University of Bonn]], former director of the [[Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices|CAMD]] synchrotron at [[Louisiana State University]] was announced as the new director.<ref name="JHormes">{{cite web| url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=bc6f0993-083a-4c1e-8640-dd98d511a5db| title=Canadian Light Source names new executive director| date=20 May 2008| accessdate=27 July 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104909/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=bc6f0993-083a-4c1e-8640-dd98d511a5db| archive-date=24 September 2015| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Science fiction author [[Robert J. Sawyer]] was writer-in-residence for two months in 2009 in what he called a  "once in a lifetime opportunity to hang out with working scientists"<ref name="Sawyer">{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/famed-sci-fi-author-to-be-writer-in-residence-at-synchrotron-1.803638|title=Famed sci-fi author to be writer-in-residence at synchrotron| date=8 January 2009 | access-date=27 July 2012|work=CBC News}}</ref> While there he wrote most of the novel "Wonder",<ref name="Wonder">{{cite book |title= Wonder|last=Sawyer |first=Robert J. |authorlink=Robert J. Sawyer |year=2011 |publisher=Penguin Group (Canada) |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-670-06743-5 |at=Acknowledgements}}</ref> which won the 2012 [[Prix Aurora Awards|Prix Aurora Award]] for best novel."<ref name="Aurora">{{cite web |url=http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/|title=Prix Aurora Awards|accessdate=2012-12-07}}</ref>

By the end of 2010 more than 1000 individual researchers had used the facility, and the number of publications had passed 500.<ref name="EllisPiC" />
From 2009–2012 several key metrics doubled, including the number of users and the number of publications, with more than 190 papers published in 2011. More than 400 proposals were received for beam time in 2012, with approximately a 50% oversubscription rate averaged over the operational beamlines. By 2012 the user community spanned all regions of Canada and around 20 other countries.<ref name="Stride" /> That year a high school group from [[La Loche]] Saskatchewan became the first to use the purpose built educational beamline IDEAS.<ref name="IDEAS" /> Also in 2012 the CLS signed an agreement with the [[Advanced Photon Source]] synchrotron in the USA to allow Canadian researchers access to their facilities.<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/APS_News/Content/APS_NEWS_20120618.php
|title= Advanced Photon Source, Canadian Light Source Strengthen Ties, Expand X-ray Technology and Research
|date= 18 June 2012
|accessdate= 26 July 2012
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120910153805/http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/APS_News/Content/APS_NEWS_20120618.php
|archive-date= 10 September 2012
|url-status= dead
}}</ref>