KNAW-Agenda Grootschalige Onderzoeksfaciliteiten : Smart*Light: a Dutch table-top synchrotron light source

Immediately after its discovery in 1895, X-ray radiation started to make an enormous contribution to society. Fields like medical diagnostics, materials inspection and protein crystallography rely heavily on the imaging and analytical capabilities of X-rays. Notwithstanding major developments over the past century, there are three important intrinsic limitations to X-ray tubes, the conventional X-ray sources 2/25 used in the lab: their relative low intensity, the poor coherence of radiation and the selective availability of X-ray energies. Since the late 1970s synchrotron sources have become a... Mehr ...