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A polymer-based electrolyte makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F.

A white disc of battery material catches fire.

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If scaled up successfully, the team's new system could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter.

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The long – but not too long – cavity would ping-pong X-ray pulses inside of a particle accelerator facility to help capture nature’s fastest...

This cartoon figure shows how the cavity-based X-ray free electron laser works in general. The electron beam (blue) travels through an undulator (brown), which causes the beam to release X-ray pulses. These pulses bounce around a set of four mirrors, helping them become coherent, before they continue down the accelerator to experimental halls.

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Areas of research: S3DF (SLAC Shared Science Data Facility); evaluating technologies for massive scale analytics; forming partnerships with technology providers; developing and recruiting computing...

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Analyzing X-ray movies with computer vision reveals how nanoparticles in a lithium-ion battery electrode work.

Illustration of battery electrode nanoparticles being imaged by X-rays

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SLAC researcher Sadasivan Shankar talks about a new environmental effort starting at the lab – building a roadmap that will help researchers improve the...

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The algorithm pairs machine-learning techniques with classical beam physics equations to avoid massive data crunching.

This is a representation of a particle beam traveling through an accelerator.

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Wan-Lin Hu’s job is to improve the way people and artificial intelligence collaborate to run SLAC’s complex machines.

Wan-Lin Hu is seen talking with talks with accelerator systems operator Kabir Lubana in the lab’s main Accelerator Control Room.

TID leverages its state-of-the-art scientific expertise in exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum and in advanced instrumentation to develop novel technologies.

SLAC’s microelectronics research is breaking new ground in sustainable computing.

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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...

Flameproofing lithium-ion batteries with salt

Researchers take a step toward novel quantum simulators

Capturing Molecular Motion using Artificial Intelligence

Researchers show how to increase X-ray laser brightness and power using a crystal cavity and diamond mirrors

Adeyemi Adesanya

‘Computer vision’ reveals unprecedented physical and chemical details of how a lithium-ion battery works

Q&A: How to make computing more sustainable

Researchers develop clever algorithm to improve our understanding of particle beams in accelerators

A day in the life of a human-in-the-loop engineer

Technology Innovation Directorate (TID)

Microelectronics at SLAC

Shrinking particle accelerators with cold plasma and a large picnic basket