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Graphene target boosts laser-driven ion acceleration

09 Mar 2022
Diagram showing ions produced when a laser is fired at a graphene target
Ion generation: Images of ions produced in three successive 'shots' at the large-area suspended graphene target with increasing laser energies, taken with a Thomson parabola ion spectrometer. (Courtesy: Y Kuramitsu, T Minami, T Hihara et al. Sci. Rep. 12 2346)
Physicists in Japan and Taiwan have developed a compact, highly efficient method of generating high-

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