{"id":243681,"date":"2026-09-05T01:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ultrafast-electrons-and-lasers-reveal-unexpectedly-strong-radiation-signals-in-common-semiconductors"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:17:02","slug":"ultrafast-electrons-and-lasers-reveal-unexpectedly-strong-radiation-signals-in-common-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ultrafast-electrons-and-lasers-reveal-unexpectedly-strong-radiation-signals-in-common-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast electrons and lasers reveal unexpectedly strong radiation signals in common semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrafast-electrons-and-lasers-reveal-unexpectedly-strong-radiation-signals-in-common-semiconductors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detecting radiation is key to technologies ranging from particle accelerators and scientific instruments to medical imaging and security screening. But current detectors must often make trade-offs, providing signals that are strong but slow or fast but weak. The trade-off between signal strength and speed can limit precision detection.<\/p>\n<p>In new research, Stanford University researchers worked with the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on a unique experimental setup to detect radiation across a range of materials.<\/p>\n<p>What they found surprised them. Not only did the researchers observe an unexpectedly strong ultrafast radiation signal, they also found that the charge within the materials acted differently than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detecting radiation is key to technologies ranging from particle accelerators and scientific instruments to medical imaging and security screening. But current detectors must often make trade-offs, providing signals that are strong but slow or fast but weak. The trade-off between signal strength and speed can limit precision detection. In new research, Stanford University researchers worked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243681","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=243681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}