{"id":184116,"date":"2024-03-01T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/stanfords-tiny-accelerator-promises-giant-leaps-for-medical-and-physics-breakthroughs"},"modified":"2024-03-01T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:25:04","slug":"stanfords-tiny-accelerator-promises-giant-leaps-for-medical-and-physics-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/stanfords-tiny-accelerator-promises-giant-leaps-for-medical-and-physics-breakthroughs","title":{"rendered":"Stanford\u2019s Tiny Accelerator Promises Giant Leaps for Medical and Physics Breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanfords-tiny-accelerator-promises-giant-leaps-for-medical-and-physics-breakthroughs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new advance by Stanford engineers could lead to particle accelerators being widely available in science, medicine, and industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stanford researchers are getting closer to building a tiny electron accelerator based on \u201caccelerator-on-a-chip\u201d technology with broad potential applications in studying physics as well as medical and industrial uses.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have demonstrated that a silicon dielectric laser accelerator, or DLA, can now both speed up and confine electrons, creating a focused beam of high-energy electrons. \u201cIf the electrons were microscopic cars, it\u2019s as if, for the first time, we\u2019re steering and we have our foot on the gas,\u201d said Payton Broaddus, PhD \u201923 in electrical engineering and the lead author on a paper published on February 23 detailing the breakthrough in <em> <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new advance by Stanford engineers could lead to particle accelerators being widely available in science, medicine, and industry. Stanford researchers are getting closer to building a tiny electron accelerator based on \u201caccelerator-on-a-chip\u201d technology with broad potential applications in studying physics as well as medical and industrial uses. The researchers have demonstrated that a silicon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184116","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}