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SAGE-S summer camp

Lydia Young, SLAC’s chief engineer, helps students with an experiment at the lab’s SAGE-S summer camp, one of a number of camps and internships run with help from SLAC volunteers.
September 26, 2022
Lydia Young, SLAC’s chief engineer, helps students with an experiment at the lab’s SAGE-S summer camp.
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SLAC's FACET-II test facility

A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller and a lot more capable.

September 26, 2022
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility.
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SLAC public tour group

SLAC public tour group in SLAC lobby

October 3, 2022
SLAC public tour group in SLAC lobby
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Members of SLAC’s LZ team with loom.

Members of SLAC’s LZ team with the loom they used to weave high-voltage grids for the next-gen dark matter experiment.
October 3, 2022
Members of SLAC’s LZ team with loom used to weave high-voltage grids.
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SLAC aerial map (Google earth)

SLAC aerial map
October 3, 2022
SLAC aerial map (Google earth)
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Accelerator control room

Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.
October 3, 2022
Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019
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Photosystem-II

Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.

October 9, 2022
Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.
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Crystallized ribosomes

At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.

October 11, 2022
At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
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Perovskites

Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
October 11, 2022
Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
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Electron transfer in a molecular complex

When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.
October 11, 2022
When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.
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Battery life and efficiency

Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance. 

October 11, 2022
Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.
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X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets

X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties. 

June 18, 2014
X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.