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VIA Stanford

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

October 24, 2022
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Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

November 7, 2022  ·  3 min read
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Shining a new light on oil-slick rainbows and other thin-layer physics

To invent a new tool for studying how chemicals react at interfaces, researchers shoot tiny jets of oil and water at each other and...

November 30, 2022  ·  4 min read
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Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets under X-ray Gaze

For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light...

June 16, 2005  ·  4 min read
X-ray fluorescence scan revealing both the Euchologion and Archimedes texts on a folio with a forged painting
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Researchers resolve decades-long debate about shock-compressed silicon with unprecedented detail

They saw how the material finds a path to contorting and flexing to avoid being irreversibly crushed.

October 13, 2022  ·  5 min read
MEC silicon
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Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

The award celebrates Huang’s achievements studying atom-scale physics with fast X-ray pulses.

October 31, 2022  ·  2 min read
Yijing Huang at Stanford University
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Quantum Lightswitch: A New Direction in Ultrafast Electronics

Public lecture presented by Joshua Turner

January 29, 2013  ·  01:14:35  runtime
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Advanced accelerators

Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC's national user facilities. They are complicated machines, with hundreds of thousands of components that all need to be designed, engineered, operated and maintained to achieve the highest energy acceleration and the highest quality particle...

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Scientists create first attosecond atomic X-ray laser

One-quintillionth of a second lasing breakthrough could lead to next-generation X-ray technologies, improving imaging in medical, material, and quantum science.

June 11, 2025  ·  3 min read
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Shambhu Ghimire named American Physical Society Fellow

He was honored for his work in ultrafast physics.

November 13, 2025
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Observing quantum footballs blown up by laser kicks

Laser-driven break up of "buckyballs" is recorded in real-time by X-ray imaging at LCLS. 

November 21, 2025
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The ideal fusion fuel target doesn’t exist – yet. Researchers at SLAC are trying to change that.

Researchers at SLAC are developing experimental techniques to evaluate new candidates for inertial fusion energy targets. 

November 26, 2025  ·  7 min read
a graphic in the style of graphic novel depicts four lasers converging on a spherical target, which represents an inertial fusion energy reaction
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