{"id":216786,"date":"2025-06-28T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/wafer-lens-changes-x-ray-beam-size-by-more-than-3400-times"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:12:28","slug":"wafer-lens-changes-x-ray-beam-size-by-more-than-3400-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/wafer-lens-changes-x-ray-beam-size-by-more-than-3400-times","title":{"rendered":"Wafer lens changes X-ray beam size by more than 3,400 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wafer-lens-changes-x-ray-beam-size-by-more-than-3400-times3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer of lithium niobate (LN) instead of the usual two-part structure, a group from Nagoya University in Japan has created a deformable mirror that changes X-ray beam size by more than 3,400 times. This improved tuning range enhances both imaging and analysis, especially for the X-rays used in industry.<\/p>\n<p>Their technique is based on LN, a material that has piezoelectricity, meaning that it changes its surface shape in response to voltage. Traditional X-ray mirrors are rigid and resistant to being deformed, making it difficult to adapt them to changing experimental conditions in real time, but the new technique can significantly change <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/beam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">beam<\/a> size, making it useful for a range of situations encountered in industry.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-05019-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer of lithium niobate (LN) instead of the usual two-part structure, a group from Nagoya University in Japan has created a deformable mirror that changes X-ray beam size by more than 3,400 times. This improved tuning range enhances both imaging and analysis, especially for the X-rays used in industry. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216786","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}