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Compact design delivers hard X-rays

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Beneath a forest in Villigen, Switzerland, a new compact free-electron laser facility is generating brilliant X-ray flashes.

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Fig. 1: Inside SwissFEL.

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Yabashi, M. Compact design delivers hard X-rays. Nat. Photonics 14, 715–716 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-00721-7

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