Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.
![Illustration of X-ray laser pulses stripping electrons away from atoms](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/nature_lcls_rgb.jpg?h=c1adbf8b&itok=XbnpsFl9)
At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
![At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/44943593144_f53c15a6cc_o_1200x768.jpg?h=07c03992&itok=C5Vf0B9Q)
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...
![UED electron camera takes snapshots of dynamic ripples.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/UED-MoS2-Ripples3_0.jpg?h=748133d4&itok=2EueSwLE)
A social lunch event on the Main Quad for Director’s Award recipients and members of the SLAC community with notable years of service.
![Social lunch event for honorees](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2022_0920_SLAC_Honorees_Social_Orrell-2.jpg?h=1b90a75d&itok=serFjz-M)
Researchers made the first microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.
![First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/5744437614ab6.jpeg?h=eb808868&itok=wEtVidF7)
![Cryo-EM image processing workshop at SSRL](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2019_1119_CryoEM_SSRL_Training_Workshop-1590%20%281%29.jpg?h=8cff8757&itok=TBh1B240)
Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Hutch 6, located in the LCLS Far Experimental Hall.
![Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Hutch 6, located in the LCLS Far Experimental Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/Scientific_facilities_MEC_hutch.jpg?h=945b5590&itok=NgcmkRy-)
![PULSE graduate student Jian Chen in a laser lab at SLAC.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/Laser%20Lab%20Bldg%2040%2035092687873_e18f5cb3fa_o.jpg-.jpg?h=0c369830&itok=fgfKSvXZ)
SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette during a 2019 visit.
![SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2019_0830_U.S._Dept_Energy_Deputy_Secretary_Visit-Orrell-3744.jpg?h=5f532178&itok=ioNk97BW)
Staff gather in front of Arrillaga Science Center on the day of the building’s inauguration.
![Arrillaga Science Center ribbon cutting ceremony](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2019-0618_ASC_RibbonCutting-118.jpg?h=775229f3&itok=nGd4qqHQ)
![Poster Image: A brain with computing devices around it](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lectures_files/public_lecture_7_29_2021_lindberg_v2.png?h=5e8f56a3&itok=UH-AlFOI)
![Public Lecture poster: picture of movie](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lectures_files/public_lecture_nov2021_titleonly.jpg?h=1dcb9c69&itok=ZDwQH1Mo)