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SSRL X-Ray Crystallography Covid-19 Research

Jeney Wierman, a staff scientist at SLAC, explains how SSRL tools are contributing to COVID-19 research.
July 30, 2020  ·  00:03:07  runtime
video still frame about X-ray crystallography at SSRL
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New undulator hall

The original LCLS undulator system was removed and replaced with two totally new systems that offer dramatic new capabilities. 
July 17, 2020
New undulator hall
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SLAC acute shortage ventilator project

Sander Breur from SLAC’s EXO neutrino research group, describes the acute shortage ventilator project.
August 13, 2020  ·  00:01:01  runtime
SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator
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LCLS-II undulators

The second phase of a major upgrade project is now online at SLAC’S Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). On Saturday...
September 14, 2020
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Polarons

An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.

December 15, 2020
Polarons, bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice.
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Polaronic distortions

As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...
December 15, 2020
Animation of polaronic distortions expanding in an atomic lattice
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Cryoplant flow animation

The linac is equipped with two world-class helium cryoplants.

May 9, 2022
Cryoplant flow animation
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All About SLAC: What Goes On In the World's Longest Building

Public lecture presented by Neil Calder

February 24, 2004  ·  01:12:12  runtime
stillframe public lecture all about SLAC
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Public Lecture Poster

Photosynthesis: How Plants Build the Air we Breathe - Atom by Atom

November 1, 2021
Public Lecture poster: picture of movie
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Battery’s liquid electrolyte

A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder. The electrolyte will be fast-frozen into a...
January 5, 2022
A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder.
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Cryo-EM reconstructions of KIX

February 10, 2022
Red molecules are sandwiched between a blue inner shell and purple outer shell.
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Unstable lattice

February 13, 2022
Illustration shows two ball-and-stick molecules in pink and red separated by a blurred streak representing how the first structure is slightly deformed into the second.