{"id":174553,"date":"2023-10-21T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/accelerating-the-future-worlds-first-miniature-particle-accelerator-unveiled"},"modified":"2023-10-21T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T02:22:25","slug":"accelerating-the-future-worlds-first-miniature-particle-accelerator-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/accelerating-the-future-worlds-first-miniature-particle-accelerator-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating the Future: World\u2019s First Miniature Particle Accelerator Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accelerating-the-future-worlds-first-miniature-particle-accelerator-unveiled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research, and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research centers. Using lasers to accelerate electrons within a photonic nanostructure constitutes a microscopic alternative with the potential of generating significantly lower costs and making devices considerably less bulky.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, no substantial energy gains have been demonstrated. In other words, it has not been shown that electrons really have increased in speed significantly. A team of laser physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU) has now succeeded in demonstrating the first nanophotonic electron accelerator \u2013 at the same time as colleagues from Stanford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research, and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research centers. Using lasers to accelerate electrons within a photonic nanostructure constitutes a microscopic alternative with the potential of generating significantly lower costs and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174553","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}