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Peering inside an atom just got cheaper and greener

A Swiss design could help to bring an ultra-high-resolution mapping tool to the scientific masses.
A section of the SwissFEL accelerator.

Some of the innards of the SwissFEL accelerator, which was cheaper to build and more compact than most similar facilities. Credit: Switzerland Global Enterprise

Researchers have slashed the cost and energy needed to produce high-energy X-ray pulses that are key to a powerful method of imaging atoms and molecules.

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Nature 587, 333 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03167-7

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