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Understanding Magnetic Memory One Layer at a Time

“Smaller, faster, cheaper" is Silicon Valley's mantra for progress. But as critical components shrink to near atomic dimensions, it’s becoming much more difficult for...

June 6, 2011  ·  3 min read
Peeling Back the Layers of Magnetic Memory
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Q&A: Alan Heirich and Elliott Slaughter Take On SLAC’s Big Data Challenges

As members of the lab’s Computer Science Division, they develop the tools needed to handle ginormous data volumes produced by the next generation of...

January 9, 2018  ·  6 min read
SLAC Computer Science Team
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Bigger, faster, more powerful: SLAC’s new X-ray laser data system will process a million images a second

When upgrades to the X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are complete, the powerful new machine will capture up...

February 17, 2021  ·  5 min read
Infographic on LCLS-II data.
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SLAC and Stanford become founding partners of Q-NEXT national quantum center

Q-NEXT will tackle next-generation quantum science challenges through a public-private partnership, ensuring U.S. leadership in an economically crucial arena.

August 26, 2020  ·  3 min read
QIS public-private partnership.
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Q&A: How machine learning helps scientists hunt for particles, wrangle floppy proteins and speed discovery

Daniel Ratner, head of SLAC’s machine learning initiative, explains the lab’s unique opportunities to advance scientific discovery through machine learning.

September 30, 2020  ·  6 min read
Physicist Daniel Ratner.
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Q-FARM initiative to bolster quantum research at Stanford-SLAC

The newly launched Quantum Fundamentals, ARchitecture and Machines initiative will build upon existing strengths in theoretical and experimental quantum science and engineering at Stanford...

February 8, 2019
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Q&A: SLAC/Stanford researchers prepare for a new quantum revolution

Monika Schleier-Smith and Kent Irwin explain how their projects in quantum information science could help us better understand black holes and dark matter.

May 9, 2019  ·  9 min read
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In brief: New round of DOE awards bolsters quantum information science at SLAC

Two projects will look for ways to link individual quantum devices into networks for quantum computing and ultrasensitive detectors.

September 16, 2019  ·  1 min read
QIS microantenna
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The future of fighting cancer: zapping tumors in less than a second

SLAC and Stanford researchers secure support for two projects that share one goal: to reduce the side effects of radiation therapy by vastly shrinking...

November 28, 2018  ·  5 min read
Researchers at SLAC and Stanford are developing new accelerator-based technology that aims to speed up cancer radiation therapy.
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Q&A: How SLAC's Technology Innovation Directorate serves as the backbone of discovery at the lab

The leaders of SLAC's Technology Innovation Directorate discuss how their group supports the lab's most innovative projects.

April 5, 2022  ·  7 min read
TID senior managers
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Vintage SLAC accelerator software spreads its wings

SLAC works with two small businesses to make its ACE3P software easier to use in supercomputer simulations for optimizing the shapes of accelerator structures.

August 29, 2022  ·  8 min read
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VIA Stanford

Scientists seek to invent a safe, reliable, and cheap battery for electricity grids

The Aqueous Battery Consortium of Stanford, SLAC, and 13 others seeks to overcome the limitations of a battery using water as its electrolyte.

September 3, 2024
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