A tiny technology for producing X rays in a novel way could increase the sensitivity of luggage screening at airports, medical imaging, and other techniques for looking through things and make their use more widespread.
In conventional X-ray machines, a metallic filament heated to 1,000° C emits electrons that barrel down a vacuum tube and collide with a piece of metal to produce the rays.
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