Particle Accelerator on a Chip Will Reach a Million Electron Volts by End of 2020
Scientists at Stanford and SLAC have created a silicon chip that can accelerate electrons using an infrared laser to deliver, in less than a hair’s width, the sort of energy boost that takes microwaves many feet. Above – This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of an accelerator-on-a-chip. The gray structures focus infrared laser …