Applications
- Life sciences: protein and large molecule crystallography
- LIGA based microfabrication
- Drug discovery and research
- "Burning" computer chip designs into metal wafers
- Analysing chemicals to determine their composition
- Observing the reaction of living cells to drugs
- Inorganic material crystallography and microanalysis
- Fluorescence studies
- Semiconductor material analysis and structural studies
- Geological material analysis
- Medical imaging
- Proton therapy to treat some forms of cancer
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