Beam dream
18 September 2006
Over the past few years, materials scientists around the world have looked on with a mixture of awe and gratitude as physicists have constructed a series of immensely powerful and dazzling light sources that can be used to analyse the innermost secrets of everything from individual molecules to pieces of aircraft.These light sources, or synchrotrons, typically send particles slaloming through a device known as a wiggler, causing them to give off photons that are conducted ...
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