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An option would be to replace the laser and tin with some tape. [1] I know tape is a consumable item but is considerably less professional compared to a laser.
by keanebean86 6y ago
An option would be to replace the laser and tin with some tape. [1] I know tape is a consumable item but is considerably less professional compared to a laser.
[1] https://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185.html https://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185....
- godelski 6y agoA laser is not just light. It is a specific wavelength. X-Rays are a spectrum. The EUV/soft X-ray is a part of that spectrum. There's also other properties that you want from the laser. But this tape-x-rays won't be easy to control or uniform in wavelength. Making it not a laser, even if you could collimate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser
- keanebean86 6y agoThanks for this info. I assumed there was a specific reason they used this setup. I was joking about using tape. Too bad we can't make x-ray leds.
- Animats 6y agoIt's easier to generate hard X-rays than EUV. An X-ray tube is just an electron gun and a copper target.