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Video

What is a Femtosecond?

Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?” 
August 23, 2017  ·  00:02:08  runtime
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Nanocrystals ‘superlattice’

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

July 29, 2017
Illustration of nanocrystals forming into superlattices at SLAC's SSRL
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Atomic vibrations

An animation shows how an infrared laser beam (orange) triggers atomic vibrations in a thin layer of iron selenide, which are then recorded by...

June 28, 2017
infrared laser beam triggers atomic vibrations in a thin layer of iron selenide
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Public Lectures

Archaeopteryx: Bringing the Dino-Bird to Life

Some 150 million years ago, a strange creature died in a tropical lagoon that today is located in Bavaria, Germany. In 1861, a single...
Date Tuesday, January 25, 2011
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Saving the Mary Rose: Synchrotrons and the Preservation of a Tudor Warship

The Mary Rose, built in 1511, was the flagship of King Henry VIII. She sank in 1545 while en route to confront the French...
Date Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Making Molecular Movies: 10,000,000,000,000 Frames per Second

Presented by Kelly Gaffney. Movies have transformed our perception of the world. With slow motion photography, we can see a hummingbird flap its wings...

Date Tuesday, December 12, 2006
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Taking Aim at Electrons: an Atomic-scale Shooting Gallery

In experiments resembling an atomic-scale shooting gallery, researchers are pioneering a new method for chemical analysis by zapping the innermost electrons out of atoms...

June 12, 2012  ·  3 min read
Double-core Team at AMO
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Bringing Telescope Tech to X-ray Lasers

Technology that helps ground-based telescopes cut through the haze of Earth's atmosphere to get a clearer view of the heavens may also be used...

July 10, 2012  ·  3 min read
Keck Laser Guide Star
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Shedding Light

In 1971, physicist Burton Richter of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was building a new type of particle collider called a storage ring.

June 2, 2011  ·  6 min read
soft X-ray fluorescence at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source
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SSRL Team Reports Sought-After Magnetic Properties in Common Alloy

In a paper published Nov. 2 in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by University of Maryland's Ichiro Takeuchi, in collaboration with Stanford...

November 3, 2011  ·  1 min read
Apurva Mehta, SSRL Staff Scientist
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Lower Energy Could Lead to More Biological Imaging at LCLS

While SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source was designed to push the limits as a high-energy X-ray laser, users' requests have led staff at the...

May 29, 2012  ·  2 min read
X-ray beam generated in a successful low-energy test at LCLS
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Archimedes: Accelerator Reveals Ancient Text

Archimedes (287-212 BC), who is famous for shouting 'Eureka' (I found it) is considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of all times. The...
Date Tuesday, December 13, 2005
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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