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July 29, 2016
News Feature
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.
April 27, 2016
News Feature
SLAC Partners with Palo Alto Firm to Make Klystrons Much More Efficient
New ‘GREEN-RF’ Technology Recycles Energy that Would Otherwise Go to Waste in Accelerating Particles for Science, Medicine, Industry
Looking down the SLAC Klystron Gallery.
August 7, 2015
News Feature
Unique SLAC Technology to Power X-ray Laser in South Korea
Scientists and engineers in South Korea will soon be using SLAC’s signature high-power radio-frequency amplifiers, called XL4 klystrons, to get the most out of their new X-ray laser.
November 20, 2014
News Feature
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.
November 10, 2014
News Feature
Researchers Take Snapshots of Potential 'Kill Switch' for Cancer
Scientists at Genentech and SLAC have watched a key human protein change from a form that protects cells to one that kills them, providing valuable new insights to cancer research.
July 29, 2014
News Feature
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.
A copper acceleration cavity with an extremely thin coating of tungsten.
May 15, 2014
News Feature
Stanford ChEM-H: Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health
Given a year to mature, the Institute for Chemical Biology is relaunching under a new name that better reflects its vision of bringing Stanford's unique interdisciplinary culture to bear at a new frontier of chemistry.
April 22, 2014
News Feature
Rolls-Royce, Collaborators Study Ways to Strengthen Titanium Aircraft Parts at LCLS
Rolls-Royce researchers came to SLAC earlier this month as part of a team testing titanium and its alloys, such as those used in engine parts, landing gear and other aircraft components
Photo - Despina Milathianaki, a staff scientist at SLAC's LCLS, holds a series of titanium alloy samples prepared for an experiment. The experiment was designed to study the laser-shocked state of the materials. (Fabricio Sousa/SLAC)
March 5, 2014
News Feature
SLAC Partners with Industry to Produce Powerful Klystrons for Research
A cooperative agreement with Palo-Alto based CPI opens the door to routine commercial manufacturing of these powerful vacuum tube devices, which convert electron beams into microwaves that are used to accelerate subatomic particles.
CPI President and Chief Operating Officer Robert A. Fickett, left, and SLAC Lab Director Chi-Chang Kao look at one of the XL5 klystrons the company built under a cooperative agreement with SLAC.
October 21, 2013
News Feature
IBM/SLAC Team Controls Switching Behavior of Promising Electronic Material
Working with a metal oxide that shows promise for future generations of electronic devices, IBM and SLAC scientists have shown they can precisely control the temperature at which it flips from being an electrical conductor to an insulator – and thus functions as an electronic switch.
Image - Straining vanadium dioxide causes the vanadiu...

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