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.
Stanford postdoctoral researcher Stephen Dongmin Kang, left, demonstrates how he works at a modular glovebox workstation while Stanford postdoc Jungjin Park works at a neighboring computer in a SLAC battery lab.
In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to new ways to minimize the problem and improve battery performance.
The sun rises over the Science and User Support Building (SUSB) at the entrance to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Stanford's iconic Hoover Tower is just visible in the distance.