Energy science

The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.

SLAC and its partners have released a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids. 

The team reduced the amount of expensive platinum group metals needed to make an effective cell and found a new way to test future fuel cell innovations.

The American Physical Society recognized the SLAC and Stanford physicist for decades of groundbreaking work studying the strange behavior of electrons at the interfaces between materials.

A groundbreaking study shows defects spreading through diamond faster than the speed of sound 

With up to a million X-ray flashes per second, 8,000 times more than its predecessor, it transforms the ability of scientists to explore atomic-scale, ultrafast phenomena that are key to a broad range of applications, from quantum materials to clean...

Researchers demonstrate a way to remove the potent greenhouse gas from the exhaust of engines that burn natural gas.  

It irons out wrinkles in thin films of these novel superconductors so scientists can see their true nature for the first time. 

Batteries come in many shapes and sizes, but their materials can be hard to source. SLAC researchers are trying to build them with more abundant and ethical elements.

The results offer important implications for astrophysics and nuclear fusion research.

After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.