Diamond, An X-ray's Best Friend
December 19, 2012
John Smedley gives the 482nd Brookhaven Lecture, titled, "Diamond, An X-ray's Best Friend." He discusses his work as a member of a team in the Instrumentation Division that found that diamonds fit the bill for new components in cutting-edge tools being designed for upgrades for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), future linear-accelerator light sources, the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), and NSLS-II — facilities that researchers from around the world are using to understand more about how the natural world works and how we can solve the nation's energy challenges, too. Read more
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