{"id":157174,"date":"2023-02-07T05:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/first-of-its-kind-instrument-officially-ushers-in-new-era-of-x-ray-science"},"modified":"2023-02-07T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:22:19","slug":"first-of-its-kind-instrument-officially-ushers-in-new-era-of-x-ray-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/first-of-its-kind-instrument-officially-ushers-in-new-era-of-x-ray-science","title":{"rendered":"First-of-its-kind instrument officially ushers in new era of X-ray science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-instrument-officially-ushers-in-new-era-of-x-ray-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arizona State University has officially begun a new chapter in X-ray science with a newly commissioned, first-of-its-kind instrument that will help scientists see deeper into matter and living things. The device, called the compact X-ray light source (CXLS), marked a major milestone in its operations as ASU scientists generated its first X-rays on the night of Feb. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks the beginning of a new era of science with compact accelerator-based X\u2011ray sources,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/3636506\">Robert Kaindl<\/a>, who directs ASU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/biodesign.asu.edu\/cxfel\/\">Compact X-ray Free Electron Laser<\/a> (CXFEL) Labs at the <a href=\"https:\/\/biodesign.asu.edu\/\">Biodesign Institute<\/a> and is a professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.asu.edu\/\">Department of Physics<\/a>. \u201cThe CXLS provides hard X-ray pulses with high flux, stability and ultrashort durations, in a very compact footprint. This way, matter can be resolved at its fundamental scales in space and time, enabling new discoveries across many fields \u2014 from next-generation materials for computing and information science, to renewable energy, biomolecular dynamics, drug discovery and human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Building the compact X-ray light source is the first phase of a larger CXFEL project, which aims to build two instruments including a coherent X-ray laser. As the first-stage instrument, the ASU CXLS generates a high-flux beam of hard X\u2011rays, with wavelengths short enough to resolve the atomic structure of complex molecules. Moreover, its output is pulsed at extremely short durations of a few hundred femtoseconds \u2014 well below a millionth of one millionth of a second \u2014 and thus short enough to directly track the motions of atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona State University has officially begun a new chapter in X-ray science with a newly commissioned, first-of-its-kind instrument that will help scientists see deeper into matter and living things. The device, called the compact X-ray light source (CXLS), marked a major milestone in its operations as ASU scientists generated its first X-rays on the night [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523,1495,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}