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• TAU Systems is developing laser-driven plasma-based particle accelerator and light sources for the semiconductor industry and research applications.
• Led by experts in laser-driven particle accelerators, TAU is democratizing accelerator access for the progress of semiconductors, space-bound electronics, battery technology, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and more.
• TAU Labs will feature several laser-driven particle and light sources, as well as broad technical expertise co-located at one convenient facility.
• Jerome Paye, TAU Systems Chief Operating Officer said "Our high repetition rate laser driver also makes TAU Labs an ideal location to test the resistance to space radiation of satellite electronics.

• However, electrons, which partly make up atoms and form the glue that bonds atoms in molecules together, don’t move around on the same time scale people do.
• So, the tools that physicists like me use to capture their motion have to be really fast – attosecond-scale fast.

Attosecond pulses

• Capturing attosecond-scale motion requires an attosecond strobe.
• The 2023 Nobel laureates in physics made seminal contributions to the generation of such attosecond laser strobes, which are very short pulses generated using a powerful laser.
• This process of recollision results in creation of attosecond bursts of laser light.

Attosecond movies

• So how do physicists use these ultrashort pulses to make movies of electrons at the attosecond scale?
• Attosecond movies of electrons use a similar idea.
• The different “scenes” are then stitched together to make the attosecond movies of electrons.
• These movies help provide fundamental insight, with help from sophisticated theoretical models, into attosecond electronic behavior.

Future applications

• Curiosity-driven research can lead to unimaginable applications in the future, and attosecond science is likely no different.
• Understanding and controlling the behavior of electrons on the attosecond scale could enable researchers to use lasers to control chemical reactions that they can’t by other means.
• The short wavelength of attosecond pulses, which is typically in the extreme-ultraviolet, or EUV, regime, may see applications in EUV lithography in the semiconductor industry.
• With numerous research groups actively working on exciting problems in attosecond science, and with 2023’s Nobel Prize in physics recognizing its importance, attosecond science has a long and bright future.

• WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected four small explorer missions to conduct concept studies.
• "These four mission concept studies were selected because they address compelling science questions and could greatly impact the field of heliophysics," said Nicky Fox, the associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
• The principal investigator for the CINEMA mission concept study is Robyn Millan from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire.
• "These mission concept study selections provide so much promise to ongoing heliophysics research," said Peg Luce, acting Heliophysics division director at NASA Headquarters.

• Join Intel leaders as they announce the start of high-volume manufacturing on the Intel 4 process technology at Fab 34 in Leixlip, Ireland.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230927121838/en/
  Intel engineers work in Fab 34, the newest Intel manufacturing facility in Ireland.
• On Sept. 29, 2023, Intel will announce that the factory in Leixlip, Ireland, will be in high-volume production of computer chips using Intel 4 technology.
• (Credit: Intel Corporation)
  When: Friday, Sept. 29, at 12:45 p.m. Irish Standard Time (4:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time)
  Event Replays: A video replay will be published on the Intel Newsroom after the livestream ends.