Article featured in femto, The DESY research magazine

01 January, 2019

"We want to realise the first X-ray source based on terahertz technology here," explains Franz.

Electrons at almost the speed of light

Franz Kaertner's article on the terahertz accelerator was featured in femto, the DESY research magazine in January 2019. Franz Kaertner and his team are building a larger experiment named AXSIS at DESY, which is financed by a Synergy grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

"We want to realise the first X-ray source based on terahertz technology here," explains Franz.

Please read the article attached below to find out more.

The terahertz trick (194KB)