Challenge of MAX IV Towards a Multi-Purpose Highly Brilliant Light Source

The MAX IV light source complex is currently being constructed in Lund, Sweden. One of its main sources, a 3 GeV storage ring, is designed to achieve a natural emittance of 0.2 nm rad. A second storage ring operated at 1.5 GeV will broaden the spectral region offered by the facility. The complex will also provide a Short Pulse Facility delivering short X-ray pulses of spontaneous radiation where the 3 GeV injector linac will be used as the electron source. The speaker will discuss facility targets, the concept of this accelerator design, and show some possibilities of approaching two-dimensional diffraction limited X-ray generation at MAX IV.