Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
by elchananHaas on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:15PM
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Free Electron Lasers have potential to generate more tunable radiation with higher luminosity. Despite this they aren't a drop in replacement for the current EUV light sources. A free electron laser is 200 meters long, so a single laser would feed multiple EUV machines for it to be economical. This technology is very promising but it has been under development for a while. Does anyone know what the current difficulties are?
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Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
by muhdeeb on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:11PM
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As far as I understand it, smaller scale XFEL devices still suffer from poor aim, even though now these machines have been miniaturized to basement scales. They don’t need to be significant fractions of a kilometer anymore. This aim issue will probably be solved in the next few years. It’s an exciting time to be in X ray science, particularly anything ultrafast.