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The nanoscale patterns of SLAC and Stanford’s accelerator on a chip gleam in rainbow colors prior to being assembled and cut into their final...

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A view of a chamber inside the LAMP instrument during its installation at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser.

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Undulator Hall with soft X-ray undulators to the left and hard-X-ray undulators to the right. Details

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X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.

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Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.

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Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.
