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The original LCLS undulator system was removed and replaced with two totally new systems that offer dramatic new capabilities.
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Taking the first 3,200-megapixel images was an important first test for the focal plane.
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The second phase of a major upgrade project is now online at SLAC’S Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). On Saturday...
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FACET-II uses the middle third of the lab’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator
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FACET-II is the only facility in the world capable of providing high-energy electron and positron beams for researching a vast array of revolutionary accelerator...
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Over the course of two years, crews at SLAC installed a state-of-the-art high brightness electron source and new electron bunch compressor systems for producing...
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An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.
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As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...
