World's brightest X-ray machine comes online at SLAC
The $420 million Linac Coherent Light Source will snap photos at the molecular level of everything from proteins to semiconductor materials
24-Apr-2009 -
After years of design and construction, the world's brightest X-ray machine has come to life at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the hills near Stanford University.
The mile-long machine produces a laser beam made of X-rays instead of visible light. Its laser bursts are so bright and ...
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