7 'firsts' in China's sci-tech achievements in 2012-17
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A researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences examines the Dalian Coherent Light Source. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Chinese scientists have built the brightest extreme ultraviolet light in the world for capturing atoms and molecules that will reveal laws of the micro-material world.
"Extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser light sources are especially useful for sensitive detection of atoms, molecules and clusters as well as probing valence electronic structures of all kinds of materials," said an expert.
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