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Celebration of SSRL’s 50th Anniversary, group photo held on main quad on April 20, 2023.

Public Lecture Poster

Catching up to Electrons on the Move

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Aalayah Spencer inside the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Scientists uncovered new information about the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon first described by Einstein over a century ago.

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SLAC’s newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) successfully produced its first X-rays, creating unparalleled capabilities that will usher in...

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SLAC staff gather in the accelerator control room to celebrate first light produced by the LCLS-II project’s pioneering superconducting accelerator.

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SSRL utilizes x-rays produced by its accelerator, the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR3), shown in this photo from 2004.

In two recent experiments, SLAC researchers demonstrated new methods to use attosecond pulses in pump-probe experiments and generate high-power attosecond...

Public Lecture Poster

Poster illustration of public lecture featuring Ashley James

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Scientists have developed an AI-based method that helps gather data more efficiently in the search for new materials, allowing researchers...

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Deep inside rocky planets like Earth, the behavior of iron can greatly affect the properties of molten rock materials: properties that influenced how Earth...

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Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm joins 600 SLAC staff and collaborators in celebrating LCLS-II first light.

SSRL’s 50th Anniversary group photo

Faster! Catching up to Electrons on the Move

Aalayah Spencer

Photoelectric effect

LCLS-II first light

LCLS-II first light celebration

A View Inside SLAC's SPEAR3 Tunnel

Attosecond pulses

Mercury Rising: The Toxicology of a Global Pollutant

Self driving experiments

Extreme conditions in molten rock materials

LCLS-II first light celebration