SCIENCE - Researchers demonstrate “accelerator on a chip”

In an advance that could significantly shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers have used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice. The achievement was reported today in Nature by a team including scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.We still ...

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