Science news articles about 'parallel beams'

... metal-coated needle generates a narrowly focused beam of gallium ions. The high energies needed to ... accelerate them the ions travel in a highly parallel beam, which is necessary for focusing them down ...

... Wilson design a custom-made apparatus consisting of two thin parallel beams with external force transducers. Luckily, it wasn't too tricky to entice the animals to clamp down on ...

... for calibrating their precision instruments. It was made possible by the development of a unique parallel beam diffractometer at NIST that makes measurements traceable to international measurement ...