A must-have for Israel: major research facility
by Fifty scientists and executives from Silicon Valley, Stanford University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev attended a sympo, The symposium was titled "Establishing a National Synchrotron Light Research Facility in Israel" and was organized by the Americ
| Follow j. on |  |
and |  |
A synchrotron produces very high-speed X-ray light beams that are focused on a selected sample. It interacts with atoms and molecules of the sample and the interactions are recorded using specialized detectors that are attached to computers. Special software has been designed to interpret the data that has been generated.
In the basic sciences, synchrotron light is used to determine the properties of matter, for example, crystal structures, bonding energies of molecules, the electronic structures of the samples, the magnetic properties and any chemical and physical transformations that may occur.
Synchrotron light sources are used in such fields as medical imaging and radiation therapy, electronics and communications, environmental and earth science.
Comments
Be the first to comment!
Leave a Comment
In order to post a comment, you must first log in.
Are you looking for user registration? Or have you forgotten your password?
All