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    • X-ray and Ultrafast science icon X-ray & ultrafast science

      Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons

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      Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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      Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level

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      Inventing new tools for science and society

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      Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges

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        Linac Coherent Light Source

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        Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

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        Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests

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        Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

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        Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science

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        Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology

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        Stanford PULSE Institute

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        Center for Interface Science & Catalysis

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    NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

    SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

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Coming to SLACSpread across 426 acres, SLAC’s campus boasts an array of distinctive and historic buildings, including the 2-mile-long Klystron Gallery. The lab hosts...
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As one of 17 Department of Energy national laboratories, SLAC conducts research in a wide range of scientific areas and develops technologies in support of national priorities.

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SLAC + Stanford + Department of Energy

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SLAC owes its identity, and in fact its very existence, to our essential and longstanding connections with the Department of Energy and Stanford University...
SLAC/Stanford Professor Zhi-Xun Shen and SLAC staff scientist Patrick Kirchmann
Past Event
Public Lecture

Charging ahead: batteries of the future

Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as...

Date Thursday, October 6, 2022
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the Panofsky Auditorium in the Science…
public lecture art charging ahead: batteries of the future

Careers at SLAC

Here at SLAC, scientists, engineers, technicians and support professionals work together to conduct world-class research.

Stanford graduate students Robert Kasse, Natalie Geise and Tim Abate install an X-ray cell for battery research
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Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

December 5, 2022  ·  3 min read
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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Flameproofing lithium-ion batteries with salt

A polymer-based electrolyte makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F. 

December 7, 2022  ·  4 min read
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News Release

SLAC/Stanford researchers discover how a nano-chamber in the cell directs protein folding

Researchers used cryo-EM (left) to discover how a chamber in human cells (right) directs protein folding. 

December 8, 2022  ·  8 min read
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News Release

World's Particle Physics Laboratories Join To Create New Communication Resource

Batavia, Ill.—The worldwide particle physics community today (August 12) launched Interactions.org, a new global, Web-based resource developed to provide news, high-quality imagery, video...

August 12, 2003
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News Release

SLAC Experiment Identifies New Subatomic Particle

Physicist Antimo Palano representing the BABAR experiment presented the evidence for the identification of a new subatomic particle named Ds (2317) to a packed...

April 28, 2003
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News Release

SLAC Scientists Help Set Data Transfer Speed Record

Transmit 6.7 Gigabytes of data — the data equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies — across 7000 miles in less than a minute...

February 7, 2003
World Record Data Transfer Speed
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Stanford to Receive $7.5 Million Gift for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Institute

Physicist Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation have pledged $7.5 million to establish an institute that will focus on recent developments in astrophysics, high-energy...

January 15, 2003
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