Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility (CSRF) is a national facility owned and managed by NRC, NSERC (National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada), the Ontario Centre for Material Research, and is operated by the University of Western Ontario.

CSRF user community is very diverse scientifically and geographically. CSRF users include chemists, physicists, geologists, and chemical and material engineers from British Columbia to Quebec Province.

There are three beamlines at CSRF:

1. White Light Beamline (broadband synchrotron radiation)-measured the changes in color of commercial polymer color coating as a function of photon dose of broad-band synchrotron radiation.
2. Grasshopper grazing incidence beamline (21-1000 ev)-high resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of gases, photoemission of solids, NEXAFS (near edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy) of solids.
3. Double crystal monochromator beamline (1.4-5 kev)-NEXAFS/EXAFS of solids and surfaces, SAXS (small angle x-ray scattering) of polymers and biomolecules.