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SLAC’s X-ray Laser Glimpses How Electrons Dance with Atomic Nuclei in Materials
Understanding how a material’s electrons interact with vibrations of its nuclear lattice could help design and control novel materials, from solar cells to high-temperature superconductors.
'Schroedinger's Cat' Molecules Give Rise to Exquisitely Detailed Movies
Just as Schroedinger's Cat is both alive and dead, an atom or molecule can be in two different states at once. Now scientists have exploited this behavior to make X-ray movies of atomic motion with much more detail than ever before.
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.
PULSE, SIMES-led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today’s
Silicon chips can store data in billionths of a second, but phase-change memory could be 1,000 times faster, while using less energy and requiring less space.
Scientists Use a Frozen Gas to Boost Laser Light to New Extremes
A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing ‘high harmonic generation’ in a solid.
Caught on Camera: First Movies of Droplets Getting Blown Up by X-ray Laser
Taken at SLAC, microscopic footage of exploding liquids will give researchers more control over experiments at X-ray lasers.
Peering Deep Into Materials with Ultrafast Science
Laser light exposes the properties of materials used in batteries and electronics.
Innovation Boosts Study of Fragile Biological Samples at SLAC's X-ray Laser
Researchers at SLAC have found a simple new way to study very delicate biological samples – like proteins at work in photosynthesis and components of protein-making machines called ribosomes – at the atomic scale using SLAC's X-ray laser.
Precourt Institute and TomKat Center Award $2.1 Million for Energy Research
The Precourt Institute for Energy and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford have awarded 12 faculty seed grants totaling $2.1 million for groundbreaking research on clean energy, including three grants to SLAC-Stanford collaborations.
Q&A: Researchers Explain a Strange High-Intensity Result at SLAC's X-ray Laser
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.
