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SLAC tour

Group of graduate students on tour at SLAC.

September 30, 2022
Group of graduate students on tour at SLAC.
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SLAC public tour group in SLAC lobby

October 3, 2022
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Accelerator control room

Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.
October 3, 2022
Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!

January 24, 2019  ·  01:24:02  runtime
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Perovskites

Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
October 11, 2022
Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
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Electron transfer in a molecular complex

When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.
October 11, 2022
When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.
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Accelerator Control Room

At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52’s main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons...

October 13, 2022
At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52's main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons from LCLS-II.
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Inside SLAC – the longest linear particle accelerator in 360 degrees

October 4, 2022  ·  00:00:59  runtime
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Aerial of the linac

SLAC’s linac before sunset looking west.
October 4, 2022
Aerial of the linac.
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Cryo-EM lamellae

Lydia-Marie Joubert is pointing at the result of laminating an organic sample down to 100-300nm thickness for cryo-EM imaging. For...
October 19, 2022
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MEC diamond formation

Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation...
October 20, 2022
MEC diamond formation
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MEC silicon structures

October 20, 2022
mec silicon structures
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