A fresh publication in Nature states that scientists from the German University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have conducted the first successful launch of the world’s smallest particle gas pedal. It is noted that the tiny technological triumph, the dimensions of which are comparable to the size of a small coin, can open the door to many applications, in particular, for the use of miniature particle gas pedals in medicine and directly in the body of patients.
The new machine, known as the Nanophotonic Electron Accelerator (NEA), consists of a small microchip on which is placed an even smaller vacuum tube made of thousands of individual “columns”. Scientists achieve acceleration of electrons by directing small laser beams into these very “columns”.
In the length of the main gas pedal tube NUE does not exceed half a millimeter, which is a fabulous 54 million times smaller than the ring of 27 kilometers in the largest and most powerful particle gas pedal in the world, namely the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the Swiss CERN, with the help of which many revolutionary discoveries were made. The width of the NUE tunnel, in turn, reaches only 225 nanometers.
