China is joining the elite club of countries that have equipped researchers with the potent sources of high - energy photons
called free electron lasers (FELs).
Not exact matches
Electrons thus accelerated could be wiggled by magnets to create a so -
called free -
electron laser (FEL), which generates exceptionally bright and brief flashes of x-rays that can illuminate short - lived chemical and biological phenomena.
Observing this ultra-fast dynamic process is highly significant to the analysis of complex molecules in so -
called X-ray
free -
electron lasers (XFEL) such as the LCLS in California and the European XFEL, which is now going into service on the outskirts of Hamburg.
Scientists hope that
free -
electron lasers will become the next - generation x-ray source for a range of research problemsfrom probing the structure of single proteins to studying so -
called warm, dense matter.
To break this limit in crystal size, an extremely bright X-ray beam was needed, which was obtained using a so -
called free -
electron laser (FEL), in which a beam of high - speed
electrons is guided through a magnetic undulator causing them to emit
laser - like X-ray pulses.
Jacques - Philippe Colletier and colleagues used a recently developed technique
called serial - femtosecond crystallography at an X-ray
free -
electron laser source (a powerful
laser source) to solve the structure of BinAB.
CALIPSOplus is an Integrating Activity for Advanced Communities in reply to the
call INFRAIA -01-2016 (Material Sciences and Analytical facilities / Synchrotron radiation sources and
Free Electron Lasers) in Horizon2020 the European Framework Program for Research and Innovation.