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What could smaller particle accelerators look like in the future? SLAC scientists are working on innovations that could give more researchers access to accelerator...

This is a graphic image of particles moving through plasma during plasma wakefield acceleration.

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Strongly interacting electrons in quantum materials carry heat and charge in a way that’s surprisingly similar to what individual electrons do in normal metals...

An illustration shows electrons transporting heat from a warmer to a cooler area of a material.

From studying chemical reactions that happen in femtosecond timescale to advancing society’s energy technology, the Energy Sciences Directorate’s research addresses an enormous range of critical scientific challenges.

The Accelerator Directorate fosters world leading accelerator science and technologies for future accelerators, while enabling user research and accelerator R&D programs today.

Two scientists in a control room full of computer monitors that allow them to adjust diamond mirrors in their CBXFEL experiment

The new SLAC-Stanford Battery Center creates a generational opportunity enabling translational research in electrochemical science and technology bridging across fundamental science to deployment.

News Brief

SLAC and its partners have released a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids.

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Past Event

Presented by Elizabeth Ryland

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The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.

This is a graphic representation of solar power system data. The data is processed by algorithms, which turn the data into specific power loss causes.

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Two GEM Fellows reflect on their summer internships at SLAC and share their thoughts on representation and mentorship.

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Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC's national user facilities. They are complicated machines, with hundreds of thousands of components that all need to be designed, engineered, operated and maintained to achieve the highest energy acceleration and the highest quality particle...

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

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SLAC and Stanford scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information.

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NLCTA staff helped undergraduates from Harvey Mudd College use the facility’s electron beam to test a detector they designed.

Shrinking particle accelerators with cold plasma and a large picnic basket

Researchers show an old law still holds for quirky quantum materials

Energy Sciences Directorate

Accelerator Directorate

SLAC-Stanford Battery Center

SLAC and its partners release a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids

Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge

Researchers release solar power data software to increase clean energy generation

GEM Fellowship aims to increase representation in STEM

Advanced accelerators

These colorful crystals may hold clues for future quantum computers

SLAC facility allows students to conduct research related to cancer therapy through BeamNetUS