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The next ten years of X-ray science

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The development of free-electron lasers with improved brilliance, diffraction-limited synchrotrons and compact table-top sources all point to a healthy future for X-ray science.

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Figure 1: The evolution of peak and average brilliances of synchrotron radiation sources and XFEL sources in the hard X-ray region (photon energy 10 keV).

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Yabashi, M., Tanaka, H. The next ten years of X-ray science. Nature Photon 11, 12–14 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.251

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