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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
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Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.
Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.
Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.
At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
Researchers used SLAC’s ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) as an electron camera to take snapshots of a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material as it wrinkles in response to a laser pulse.
A social lunch event on the Main Quad for Director’s Award recipients and members of the SLAC community with notable years of service.
Researchers made the first microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.
Cryo-EM image processing workshop at SSRL
Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Hutch 6, located in the LCLS Far Experimental Hall.
SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette during a 2019 visit.
Staff gather in front of Arrillaga Science Center on the day of the building’s inauguration.
