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The world is moving towards nano technology and the latest in this direction is the nano accelerator which has been developed by SLAC and Stanford scientists. The nano fabricated chips which are made of fused silica is just 3 mm long but can accelerate the electrons at 10 times the speed of a conventional accelerator.

It is a development which can have widespread uses in science and medicine. The researchers from SLAC and Stanford have used lasers to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology by using a nano structured glass chips which is no bigger than a rice grain if not smaller.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have reported the breakthrough today in the magazine Nature.

Joel England, the SLAC physicist who led the experiments said, "We still have a number of challenges before this technology becomes practical for real-world use, but eventually it would substantially reduce the size and cost of future high-energy particle colliders for exploring the world of fundamental particles and forces. It could also help enable compact accelerators and X-ray devices for security scanning, medical therapy and imaging, and research in biology and materials science."

The latest development will surely appeal to researchers in the field of science and medicine since it can considerably reduce the cost. The process employs low-cost, mass-production techniques and this can reduce the cost to a considerable extent. To understand the potential of the latest breakthrough consider the following fact- 'accelerator on a chip could match the accelerating power of SLAC's 2-mile-long linear accelerator in just 100 feet, and deliver a million more electron pulses per second.'

Said Stanford Professor Robert Byer, the principal investigator for this research, "Our ultimate goal for this structure is 1 billion electron volts per meter, and we're already one-third of the way in our first experiment"

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