- Synchrotrons round the bend to make cheaper, better x rays
Sweden’s new national synchrotron light source, the MAX IV in Lund, is blazing the trail to produce the brightest x rays yet from a storage ring The record brightness, achieved by shrinking the emittance—the product of beam size and angular divergence—of the source electrons, is thanks largely to multibend achromats (MBAs)
- Industry Gambles on Electron Synchrotrons for X‐Ray Lithography
Ultralarge‐scale integrated circuits are patterned by optical lithography, which can now imprint linewidths narrower than 0 8 micron in commercial production With some promising innovations, optical lithography may be able to push its limiting linewidths below 0 25 microns, narrow enough to produce the next two generations of circuits—16‐Mbit and 64‐Mbit dynamic random‐access memory
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Article Synchrotrons round the bend to make cheaper, better x rays JUN 01, 2015 News Article Poland replicates Swedish light source
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- Photons from synchrotrons for solid‐state and atomic physics
Electron synchrotron radiation is being explored as a continuum‐radiation source of high intensity and polarization in the far‐infrared, far‐ultraviolet and soft x‐ray regions With existing accelerators, one can obtain kilowatts of total radiation Already, at the National Bureau of Standards, synchrotron far‐ultraviolet radiation is disclosing hundreds of new resonances in rare
- Desktop synchrotron source takes a closer step towards reality
New Scientist: A paper in Nature Physics suggests that a desktop synchrotron particle accelerator could soon be able to freeze-frame the frenetic motion of atoms and molecules An international team of physicists led by Dino Jaroszynski of Strathclyde University in Scotland have built a prototype light source, which they claim can be upgraded to produce intense, ultra-short pulses of X-rays
- Research with x rays | Physics Today | AIP Publishing
Research with x rays No longer limited by weak x‐ray sources, researchers are using intense beams of synchrotron radiation, continuously selectable in energy, to explore the geometric and electronic structure of matter
- Synchrotron radiation from a plasma wakefield accelerator
Because laser-wakefield synchrotrons would be compact, inexpensive, and able to radiate from x rays down to microwaves, Jaroszynski says they could enable a wide range of applications in research, medicine, and industry
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