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DOE honors four SLAC and Stanford scientists with Early Career Awards

Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Claudio Emma,  Bernhard Mistlberger and Johanna Nelson Weker will pursue cutting-edge research into decarbonizing steel production, theoretical physics, generating more intense particle...

August 10, 2023  ·  9 min read
This photo shows all four recipients from SLAC and Stanford of the DOE's 2023 Early Career Award
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Making molecules dance reveals what drives their first movements

Bringing ultrafast physics to structural biology has revealed the coordinated dance of molecules in unprecedented clarity, which could aid in the design of new...

August 10, 2023  ·  3 min read
molecular control
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Angel Garcia-Esparza wins 2023 Spicer Young Investigator Award for studying catalysts in action

Garcia-Esparza’s research offers unique insights into catalysts relevant to renewable energy generation and emerging materials for microelectronics.

August 17, 2023  ·  3 min read
This is a photograph of SSRL scientist Angel Garcia Esparza, who was awarded the 2023 Spicer Award
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SLAC researchers take important step toward developing cavity-based X-ray laser technology

They used synthetic diamond crystals as mirrors to make X-ray pulses run laps inside a vacuum chamber, demonstrating a key process needed for future...

August 15, 2023  ·  6 min read
Two scientists in a control room full of computer monitors that allow them to adjust diamond mirrors in their CBXFEL experiment
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2023 SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting

This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the light source community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in...

Date Sunday, September 24, 2023  –  Friday, September 29, 2023
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Public Lecture

Clocking Electrons: an Attosecond Stopwatch

Presented by Siqi Li

Date Thursday, September 21, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture Siqi Li Poster
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Adeyemi Adesanya

Specialist for strategic and technical engagement for scientific computing systems

Areas of research: S3DF (SLAC Shared Science Data Facility); evaluating technologies for massive scale analytics; forming partnerships with technology providers; developing and recruiting computing...

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DOE awards a SLAC-led research team $12 million to help improve response time to dangerous pathogens

They aim to help society respond ten times faster with treatments for future disease outbreaks.

September 7, 2023  ·  1 min read
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Jim Sebek wins 2023 Lytle Award for decades of synchrotron problem solving and dedication

Sebek’s extraordinary career at SSRL includes helping build the facility’s original electron injector back in the 1980s and working on almost all of its...

September 15, 2023  ·  3 min read
This photograph shows 2023 Lytle award winner Jim Sebek at work on SSRL's electrical systems.
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‘Computer vision’ reveals unprecedented physical and chemical details of how a lithium-ion battery works

Analyzing X-ray movies with computer vision reveals how nanoparticles in a lithium-ion battery electrode work.

September 13, 2023  ·  5 min read
Illustration of battery electrode nanoparticles being imaged by X-rays
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Scientists unravel the chemical mechanism behind silica-coated nanodiamonds

SSRL's X-ray tools reveal that alcohol groups on a nanodiamond's surface allow one of the world's most valuable materials to bond with one of...

September 20, 2023  ·  3 min read
Purple layers surround angular red chunks. These are struck by gold rays, which release white spheres from the purple and red objects.
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Researchers catch protons in the act of dissociation with SLAC’s ultrafast 'electron camera'

Proving the technique works puts scientists one step closer to unraveling the mysteries of hydrogen transfers.

October 6, 2023  ·  2 min read
Red and blue laser beams strike a sample.
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