Sentences with phrase «powerful electron beams»

But the powerful electron beams can incinerate the material as they pass through it, weakening the beam and producing fuzzy images.

Not exact matches

Devices like this superconducting radio frequency cavity accelerate electron beams in the world's most powerful particle colliders and X-ray sources to nearly the speed of light.

So far, scientists have used powerful laser beams to attain an acceleration of 200 billion electron volts per meter, a new record.

DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber lasers and liquid lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of radiation.

The researchers shined a very powerful X-ray beam — using a particle accelerator at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — onto the surface of the material then monitored the electrons as they were knocked out of the interior.

He adds that the microscope's electron beam is more powerful than natural settings, but the gelling effect could affect the lifetime of electrospray thrusters in low - Earth and geosynchronous orbit.