Preparing a TARDIS Target
Target Fabrication technician Jeana Bigelow-Granillo installs a backlighter on a TARDIS (target diffraction
in-situ) target in the Bldg. 381 target fabrication facility. The TARDIS x-ray diffraction diagnostic is designed to shed light on the phase changes, or structural transitions between states of matter, that occur in materials under extreme pressures and temperatures (see
“NIF’s TARDIS Aims to Conquer Time and Space”).
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