Machine to capture live pictures of atomic motions
it may now be possible to capture live pictures of atomic motions in a chemical reaction or marvel at a snapshot of early universe. An international research team is building two huge machines towards these.
"We have developed a novel microwave amplifier and ultra-stable microwave generator for one of the machines known as Laser-based Ultra-fast x -ray Source (lux) which will generate extremely small pulses of x -rays,' says Subal Kar who led a team at the department of radio physics and electronics of Calcutta University with John N Corlett of Centre for Beam Physics, Accelerator and Fusion Research Division of University of California, Berkeley, us. The ultra-small pulses of x -rays can probe and shoot atomic motions in any chemical reactions.
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