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HTTP:: X Ray Source Shrunk to Tabletop Size
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Currently, producing X-rays is a fairly difficult process, which requires some impressive and expensive facilities in order to run smoothly. For a long time, researchers have tried to eliminate this aspect of scientific research, and it would now appear that scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in Garching, Germany, have managed to find a new way of generating the radiation. They have built a smaller, but very powerful, X-ray source, which is able to fit on a tabletop. Such an innovation could bring advanced science to many laboratories around the world, Nature News reports. Creating high-quality, X-ray images is very difficult to accomplish. Oftentimes, scientists want to obtain pictures that cannot be produced by the machines available at medical or research institutions. When this happens, they turn to synchotrons, large particle accelerators, which spin electrons around a magnet-laden ring. As they spin, the particles naturally emit high-quality,!
X-ray radiation, suitable for accurate observations. In the new German approach, the need for synchotrons is eliminated. The researchers took a small hydrogen gas cell, and then shone a very brief and very powerful light directly at its core. The role of the short, 37-femtosecond laser pulse was to attempt to dislodge electrons off their orbit...
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