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Watch this video for a simple explanation of what a synchrotron is and why there are 60 around the world today.

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SLAC Recent History (1990s-today SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source) – The creation of a powerful X-ray laser.

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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...

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Rooftop view of Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)

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Public lecture presented by Yijin Liu

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Group of graduate students on tour at SLAC.

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Public tour group entering LCLS Far Experimental Hall to visit the hutches.

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Lydia-Marie Joubert is pointing at the result of laminating an organic sample down to 100-300nm thickness for cryo-EM imaging. For...

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Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation...

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At the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, researchers recreated the extreme conditions found...

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