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Exposing the material to a magnetic field

To study superconducting materials in their “normal,” non-superconducting state, scientists usually switch off superconductivity by exposing the material to a...
February 8, 2022
Exposing the material to a magnetic field
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Cryo-EM reconstructions of KIX

February 10, 2022
Red molecules are sandwiched between a blue inner shell and purple outer shell.
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Unstable lattice

February 13, 2022
Illustration shows two ball-and-stick molecules in pink and red separated by a blurred streak representing how the first structure is slightly deformed into the second.
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Pete Franco at the SLAC Machine Shop

Machinist Pete Franco, inside the machine shop of the Light Fabrication building 025 at SLAC.

October 21, 2020
Pete Franco at the SLAC Machine Shop
Public Lecture Poster

How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers poster

October 26, 2020
How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers
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XPP instrument

XPP Instrument Area Manager Daniel Stefanescu prepares LCLS instruments for beam and experiments.
December 9, 2020
Preparations of instruments for beam and experiments at LCLS
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Neural network

Artistic representation of a neural network superimposed on an electron beam profile.
March 24, 2021
Artistic representation of a neural network superimposed on an electron beam profile
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2d superconductivity puddles

SLAC and Stanford scientists observed puddles of 2D superconducting behavior emerging from a 3D unconventional superconductor, which conducts electricity with...
April 12, 2021
Illustration of a 2D superconducting state emerging in a 3D superconductor
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2D superconducting behavior

SLAC and Stanford scientists observed puddles of 2D superconducting behavior emerging from a 3D unconventional superconductor, which conducts electricity with...
April 12, 2021
Illustration of 2D puddles of superconductivity emerging in a 3D superconductor
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Charge-density waves

SLAC scientists used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity...
April 20, 2021
Illustration depicting how two types of waves within superconducting materials intertwine to form a third type known as charge-density waves
Public Lecture Poster

Shocking Origin: Meteor Impacts and the Chemistry of Life

April 29, 2021
Public Lecture: Arianna Gleason. Meteors crashing into a planet
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Lithium-ion oxygen migration

In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...

June 11, 2021
Illustration of oxygen atoms leaving a lithium-ion battery as lithium flows in alongside a battery whose energy is being sapped by this process
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