DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) awarded a SBIR Phase I contract to investigate commercial potential of super-intense x-ray generation with MIMS (Metastable Innershell Molecular State) in the areas from semiconductor lithography to x-ray laser.
Scaling up of soft x-ray generation with MIMS will be performed with Los Alamos National Lab under a CRADA arrangement. MIMS was originally discovered by Dr. Bae and his colleagues at the Brookhaven National Lab in 1994. MIMS is a high-energy transient molecular quantum state (similar to excimers) formed by inner-shell electrons during extremely high-pressure (over 100 million atmospheric pressure, or 10 Tera-Pascal) compression of matter to form High Energy Density Materials (HEDM) and Warm Dense Matter (WDM), that can be found in stars and inner cores of large planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn.
Bae is producing MIMS material in a tabletop device now using buckyballs accelerated to over 100 kilometers per second.
Nextbigfuture covered the metastable innershell molecular state work back in 2009. It has the potential to make super explosives. It could be used to replace the nuclear fission trigger of a nuclear fusion bomb. If this was done there would be very little nuclear fallout.
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Scaling up of soft x-ray generation with MIMS will be performed with Los Alamos National Lab under a CRADA arrangement. MIMS was originally discovered by Dr. Bae and his colleagues at the Brookhaven National Lab in 1994. MIMS is a high-energy transient molecular quantum state (similar to excimers) formed by inner-shell electrons during extremely high-pressure (over 100 million atmospheric pressure, or 10 Tera-Pascal) compression of matter to form High Energy Density Materials (HEDM) and Warm Dense Matter (WDM), that can be found in stars and inner cores of large planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn.
Bae is producing MIMS material in a tabletop device now using buckyballs accelerated to over 100 kilometers per second.
Nextbigfuture covered the metastable innershell molecular state work back in 2009. It has the potential to make super explosives. It could be used to replace the nuclear fission trigger of a nuclear fusion bomb. If this was done there would be very little nuclear fallout.
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