Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
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Video
This movie introduces LCLS-II, a future light source at SLAC. It will generate over 8,000 times more light pulses per second than today’s most...
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Photograph
The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a directorate of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is an Office of Science User...
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Video
Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”
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Photograph
SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...
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Illustration
An illustration shows nanocrystals assembling into an ordered ‘superlattice.’
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Video
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential...
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Illustration
Schematic of SLAC’s new apparatus for ultrafast electron diffraction – one of the world’s fastest “electron cameras” – researchers can study motions in materials...
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Illustration
The second phase of a major upgrade project is now online at SLAC’S Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). On Saturday...
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Illustration
An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.
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Animation
As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...
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