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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

x-ray mirror, x-ray technology, metabolic stage, silicon, frozen cell

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

With the expansion of x-ray technology and recent development of laser x-rays, development of a practical, high precision x-ray mirror has become more urgent. One example of a practical and current need for such a mirror is the x-ray microscope at Duke University. The above planned microscope would function by focusing x-rays on a tiny section of a cell frozen during a specific metabolic stage. The molecules in the cell would absorb these x-rays, and then radiate x-rays off. Every element would radiate a unique wavelength of x-rays, and we would thus be able to determine which elements are present in the celL

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