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Three SLAC Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Grants
Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederico Fiuza and Emilio Nanni will each receive about $2.5 million over five years to pursue cutting-edge research into cosmic inflation, plasma acceleration and using terahertz waves to accelerate particles.
Atomic Movies May Help Explain Why Perovskite Solar Cells Are More Efficient
SLAC’s ultrafast “electron camera” reveals unusual atomic motions that could be crucial for the efficiency of next-generation perovskite solar cells.
New Ultrafast Science Fact Sheet
Our ultrafast science factsheet gives an overview of the femtosecond world.
How Do You Make Femtosecond Light?
Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.
Symmetry: The Life of an Accelerator
As it evolves, SLAC's linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.
SLAC, Berkeley Lab Researchers Prepare for Scientific Computing on the Exascale
Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing operations per second.
SLAC’s High-speed ‘Electron Camera’ Films Atomic Nuclei in Vibrating Molecules
Method creates new opportunities for studies of extremely fast processes in biology, chemistry and materials science.
Siemann Graduate Fellowships Help Advance Accelerator Research
Four Stanford students receive funding for work on novel accelerators and beams for SLAC's X-ray laser.
Echo Technique Developed at SLAC Could Make X-ray Lasers More Stable
Manipulating electron beams of X-ray lasers with regular laser light could potentially open up new scientific avenues.
A Plasma Tube to Bring Particles up to Speed at SLAC
Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.
