News tagged with ray sources
Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices
(PhysOrg.com) -- When gold vanishes from a very important location, it usually means trouble. At the nanoscale, however, it could provide more knowledge about certain types of materials. A recent discovery ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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First atomic X-ray laser created
Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes
(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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The road to ultrahigh-resolution X-ray spectrometers
Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Electron accelerator scientists report breakthroughs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have surpassed two major scientific milestones toward proving the technology of a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source.
Oct 25, 2011 |
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600 mysteries in the night sky
NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No one knows ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Tools of the trade: Diamonds are forever ... for focusing intense X-rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Faster 3D nanoimaging a possibility with full colour synchrotron light
Researchers can now see objects more precisely and faster at the nanoscale due to utilising the full colour spectrum of synchrotron light, opening the way for faster 3D nanoimaging.
Jul 01, 2011 |
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First X-ray lasing of SACLA
RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a first beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms. This light was created using SACLA, a cutting-edge X-ray ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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SACLA X-ray free electron laser sets new record
RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms, the shortest ever measured. This record-breaking light was created ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Researchers uncover details of joint injuries in children
Scientists working in part at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) have learned new information about how the knee joints of children are damaged as the result of a compression injury, which could ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Viewing the ultra-fast at SSRL: First pump-probe experiments under way
(PhysOrg.com) -- X-rays have been used for more than a century to expose the invisible in many of its forms. When a family doctor studies an X-ray of a broken leg or an agent scans a carry-on bag at an airport ...
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Mapping deformation in buried semiconductor structures using the hard X-Ray nanoprobe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and Columbia University, working with the X-Ray Microscopy Group, have mapped rotation and strain fields across a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) ...
May 13, 2011 |
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School students help astronomers study mysterious X-ray source
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from Wales and the Netherlands, in collaboration with five schools, have used eight telescopes simultaneously to study the strange behaviour of an X-ray binary star system. ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Protein biologists find new chink in staph's armor
(PhysOrg.com) -- The battle against deadly staph infections is closer to victory as Illinois researchers have uncovered secrets of how the bacterium protects itself from human immune attacks, which could lead to more effective ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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