Associated Group Peter Hommelhoff ›Chair for Laser Physics‹ ( #FAU) in collaboration with TDSU ›Micro- and Nanostructuring‹ ( #MPL)

Electron acceleration with #nanophotonic structures: The goal are compact, low-cost laser-driven accelerators on a chip. A silicon chip with 42 structures (up to 733 elliptic pillars each) accelerated electrons from 28.4 keV to 40.7 keV by passing them through laser-illuminated pillar rows.

👉 https://mpl.mpg.de/research-at-mpl/technology-development-service-units/tdsu-micro-nanostructuring

📸 Stefanie Kraus, Julian Litzel

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 29th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc042925

#"geothermally active" #"radioactive decay" #closure #"Wyoming Craton" #nanophotonic #nonlinear #Fidelity #Efficiency #camelina #pennycress #triacylglycerols #acetyl-TAG #Simpsonville #USCC #bushwhackers #magnetometer #"copper catalysts" #SAXS #degradation #CO2RR

"It is the first time that a #nanophotonic #electron #accelerator, which was first proposed in 2015, has been successfully fired, the researchers wrote in a statement. (Researchers from Stanford University have already repeated the feat with their mini accelerator, but their results are still under review).

"For the first time, we really can speak about a particle accelerator on a [micro]chip," study co-author Roy Shiloh, a physicist at FAU, said in the statement."

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/worlds-smallest-particle-accelerator-54-155333868.html

New Light Field Camera Can Focus Up-Close and Far Away Simultaneously

#news #technology #depthoffield #lens #lightfieldcamera #metalens #metasurface #nanophotonic #research