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Animation

UED Bond Breaking

Animation of a trifluoroiodomethane molecule (carbon shown in black, fluoride in green, iodine in pink) responding to laser light. The...
July 3, 2018
UED Bond Breaking
Illustration

LCLS-II Accelerator Cavity

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

July 5, 2018
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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Stanford’s Roger Kornberg

Stanford’s Roger Kornberg in his laboratory. Kornberg received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining how DNA's genetic blueprint...
July 5, 2018
Roger Kornberg
Photograph

Signing SLAC Construction Contract

Pictured are Stanford University Trustees Morris M. Doyle and Ira Lillick, seated, with (left to right) Dwight B. Adams, university...
July 5, 2018
Signing the SLAC construction contrast in 1962
Public Lecture Poster

10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks

Poster for public lecture presented by Eric Charles.
July 11, 2018
Lecture Poster
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Photosystem II 

In photosystem II, the water-splitting center cycles through four stable states, S0-S3. On a baseball field, S0 would be...

May 12, 2020
Photosystem II
Public Lecture Poster

Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core

November 8, 2018
public lecture poster titled Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core
Public Lecture Poster

Making Waves in a Superconductor poster

January 10, 2019
Public lecture poster titled Making Waves in a Superconductor
Public Lecture Poster

Brown Dwarfs poster

Public lecture presented by Presented by Eric Nielsen
June 26, 2019
Public lecture titled Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?
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UED schematic

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

July 10, 2019
UED schematic
Animation

An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma

Animation illustrating the concept of the Trojan horse method. An electron bunch from SLAC’s FACET facility (bright spot at right) passes through hydrogen plasma...

August 9, 2019
An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma
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Turning CO2 from smokestacks into products

Researchers at Stanford and SLAC are working on ways to convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemical feedstocks and fuels...
September 9, 2019
Diagram of scheme for turning CO2 from smokestacks into products
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