DESY light source PETRA III now has world's sharpest X-ray eyes
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 09:02
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) -- A novel X-ray microscope at DESY offers the world's sharpest X-ray vision: Thanks to the extraordinary brilliance of DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, this microscope is able to resolve details as small as ten nanometres – which is about ten thousand times thinner than a human hair. Only few facilities worldwide are able to reach a comparable optical resolution.