{"id":219043,"date":"2025-07-30T04:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-make-key-gains-in-unlocking-the-promise-of-compact-x-ray-free-electron-lasers"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:19:33","slug":"researchers-make-key-gains-in-unlocking-the-promise-of-compact-x-ray-free-electron-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-make-key-gains-in-unlocking-the-promise-of-compact-x-ray-free-electron-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Researchers make key gains in unlocking the promise of compact X-ray free-electron lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-make-key-gains-in-unlocking-the-promise-of-compact-x-ray-free-electron-lasers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with scientists from TAU Systems Inc., has brought the promise of smaller and more affordable X-ray free-electron lasers one step closer to reality.<\/p>\n<p>X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are powerful light sources and are typically large research instruments. Scientists use them to probe nature\u2019s secrets at the atomic level, enabling advances in medicine, biology, physics, materials, and more. The push to develop more compact and less expensive XFELs is expected to increase the number of facilities that will be able to implement this technology, greatly expanding its impact across many areas of science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of this effort, we are applying our long-standing expertise in a type of advanced accelerator called laser plasma acceleration to shrink XFELs,\u201d said Sam Barber, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab\u2019s Accelerator Technology &amp; Applied Physics (ATAP) Division. \u201cIn addition to standalone light sources, exceptionally high-quality electron beams from plasma accelerators could be injected into existing XFELs to significantly extend their performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with scientists from TAU Systems Inc., has brought the promise of smaller and more affordable X-ray free-electron lasers one step closer to reality. X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are powerful light sources and are typically large research instruments. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219043","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=219043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}