Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”

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SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...

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An illustration shows nanocrystals assembling into an ordered ‘superlattice.’

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential...

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Schematic of SLAC’s new apparatus for ultrafast electron diffraction – one of the world’s fastest “electron cameras” – researchers can study motions in materials...

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

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

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As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...


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Jeney Wierman, a staff scientist at SLAC, explains how SSRL tools are contributing to COVID-19 research.


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Jeney Wierman stands in the control room of SSRL. She, along with other members of the Structural Molecular Biology team...
