Department of Energy

DOE Approves Construction of 3-D Galaxy-mapping Project ‘DESI’

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will measure light from 35 million cosmic objects for new insights into what causes the universe to expand faster and faster.

Stanford, SLAC Play Key Role in New DOE Battery Consortium

The White House announced $50 million in funding for ‘Battery500’, a five year effort, as part of a package of initiatives to accelerate adoption of electric vehicles in the U.S.

SLAC Hosts 11th Annual Regional DOE Science Bowl

The 2015 event attracted 100 Bay Area high school students with San Jose’s Lynbrook High School emerging as the winner.

Dr. Franklin Orr Confirmed as Under Secretary for Science and Energy

Orr's position encompasses both science and energy, including the Office of Science. SLAC is one of the national laboratories under the position's purview.

Agreement Gives Energy Storage Companies Easier Access to SLAC

More than a dozen energy-storage companies have streamlined access to research facilities and expertise at SLAC under a new cooperative R&D agreement with CalCharge.

SLAC Partners with Small Businesses to Put Technology to Good Use

Researchers at SLAC collaborate with small businesses to develop technology so it can benefit the world at large.

SLAC and Stanford Scientists Earn Department of Energy Research Awards

The Department of Energy has awarded two Stanford scientists funding through the agency’s Early Career Research Program.

SLAC Theorist Shares in Prestigious Physics Award

SLAC particle theorist Lance Dixon has been named co-winner of the 2014 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded each year by the American Physical Society.

SLAC Scientists Create Twisted Light

Scientists at SLAC have found a new method to create coherent beams of twisted light – light that spirals around a central axis as it travels. It has the potential to generate twisted light in shorter pulses, higher intensities and a much wider range of wavelengths, including X-rays, than is currently possible.

Shedding Light

In 1971, physicist Burton Richter of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was building a new type of particle collider called a storage ring. The lab’s two-mile-long linear accelerator—housed in what was then the longest building in the world—would shoot electrons and their antimatter twins, called positrons, into the 80-meter-diameter Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring, and SPEAR would set the beams of particles on a collision course. Richter and his colleagues stood by to examine the debris to see what discoveries came out.