Jet-propelled Imaging For An Ultrafast Light Source

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 13:28 in Physics & Chemistry

A new particle gun fires liquid droplets less than a millionth of a meter in diameter, hundreds of thousands of times a second or faster. The sample jet sends the droplets across a tightly focused X-ray beam in single file, each droplet so small it contains only a single protein or virus.

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