{"id":161757,"date":"2023-04-08T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/researchers-capture-first-atomic-scale-images-depicting-early-stages-of-particle-accelerator-film-formation"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T01:24:01","slug":"researchers-capture-first-atomic-scale-images-depicting-early-stages-of-particle-accelerator-film-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/researchers-capture-first-atomic-scale-images-depicting-early-stages-of-particle-accelerator-film-formation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers capture first atomic-scale images depicting early stages of particle accelerator film formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-capture-first-atomic-scale-images-depicting-early-stages-of-particle-accelerator-film-formation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from a team of scientists at the Cornell University Center for Bright Beams has made significant strides in developing new techniques to guide the growth of materials used in next-generation particle accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the <i>Journal of Physical Chemistry C<\/i>, reveals the potential for greater control over the growth of superconducting Nb<sub>3<\/sub>Sn films, which could significantly reduce the cost and size of cryogenic infrastructure required for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Superconducting accelerator facilities, such as those used for X-ray free-electron laser radiation, rely on niobium superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities to generate high-energy beams. However, the associated cryogenic infrastructure, energy consumption, and operating costs of niobium SRF cavities limit access to this technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from a team of scientists at the Cornell University Center for Bright Beams has made significant strides in developing new techniques to guide the growth of materials used in next-generation particle accelerators. The study, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, reveals the potential for greater control over the growth of superconducting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161757","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}