An intense x-ray beam can make iron foil transparent for just an instant
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
An intense blast of high-energy x-rays can make iron transparent to the beam for less than a femtosecond, researchers from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center have found. The technique could be used to produce ultrashort x-ray pulses for probing materials at the electron scale.