Stanford’s Tiny Accelerator Promises Giant Leaps for Medical and Physics Breakthroughs
Illustration of a shoebox-sized accelerator. An electron source and buncher/injector feeds into a sub-relativistic DLA (the device described in this article), which accelerates electrons up to 1MeV in energy. These electrons are further accelerated by SiO2 waveguide-driven relativistic DLA, and finally pass through an undulator to produce coherent free-electron radiation. Credit: Moore Foundation / Payton BroaddusA new advance by Stanford engineers could lead to particle accelerators being widely available in science,…