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Water is all around us, yet its surface layer is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC’s X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

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SLUO represents scientists and engineers from universities and laboratories around the world involved in particle physics, astrophysics and accelerator physics research at SLAC.

System to report and track accelerator issues (requires SLAC network or VPN).

SLAC's colloquium talks are aimed at a broad scientific and technical audience, but occasionally, those talks may be of more general interest.

News Release

Surfing a plasma wave, electrons get an energy and brightness boost.

Illustration of electrons traveling through a plasma chamber

A downloadable PDF fact sheet about the SSRL facility at SLAC.

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Researchers find evidence of coexisting atomic stacking patterns in superionic water.

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Research

Modern technology creates new opportunities for society: Just think about how artificial intelligence has changed our cars and cell phone apps.

The basics

SLAC develops and deploys some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Here we explain how they work and the exciting discoveries they make possible.

SAGE campers have fun experimenting with a Van de Graff generator

News Brief

Using SSRL, scientists uncovered fossil evidence that the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes.

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SLAC experts discuss how microelectronics impacts our lives and where the future lies in this Q&A.

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Salleo sees strength in the big picture and minute details of the people, tools and partnerships at SLAC.

SLAC researchers wield new tools to study water’s enigmatic surface

SLAC Users Organization (SLUO)

Comprehensive Accelerator Tool For Enhancing Reliability (CATER)

Colloquium Series at SLAC

SLAC and UCLA researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time

Fact sheet: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

This exotic form of ice just got weirder

New technologies

SLAC science explained

443-million-year-old fossils reveal early vertebrate eyes

What is the field of microelectronics and why is it so important?

Zooming in, zooming out: Q&A with SLAC’s Deputy Director for Science & Technology Alberto Salleo