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Polarons, bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice.
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X-ray Laser Uncovers Secrets of Complex Oxide Material

An international team of researchers has used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to discover never-before-seen behavior by electrons in complex materials with extraordinary...

May 16, 2012  ·  3 min read
alternating stripes of charges and spins that self-organize in a particular nickel oxide at sufficiently low temperatures
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SIMES Professor Honored for Superconductivity Research

Steven Kivelson, a member of SLAC’s Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, has been named a winner of the 2012 John Bardeen Prize...

May 1, 2012  ·  2 min read
Steven Kivelson
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Postdoc Eric Verploegen Energized by Experiences, Mentoring at SLAC

If the excitement and enthusiasm of young scientists like Eric Verploegen could be pumped directly into the power grid, the world's energy problems could...

December 7, 2011  ·  3 min read
Eric Verploegen