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This ‘beautiful’ herringbone-like pattern could give rise to unique features that scientists are just starting to explore.

An illustration of a dramatic, herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a newly created quantum material. Against a black background, calcium atoms are seen as light blue spheres, cobalt atoms in dark blue and oxygen atoms in red. Lines connecting the oxygen atoms represent the atomic lattice.

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Scientists already knew the atoms in perovskites, a promising class of solar cell materials, react favorably to light. Now they can see precisely how...

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Researchers discover that electrons play a surprising role in heat transfer between layers of semiconductors, with implications for next-generation electronic devices.

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

A pom-pom like object with curly tangles in purple and blue shades and yellow tangles at center, reminiscent of a zinnia blossom.

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

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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A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

A pattern of red and yellow dots surrounded by a ring of blue dots on a black background.

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For decades, materials scientists have focused on materials that are relatively balanced and unchanging – but not Yijing Huang, a postdoctoral scholar at the...

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Blaine Mooers, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, has won this year’s Farrel W. Lytle...

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The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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Silicon, an element abundant in Earth’s crust, is currently the most widely used semiconductor material and is important in fields like engineering, geophysics and...

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Powerful X-rays from SLAC’s synchrotron reveal that our immune system’s primary wiring seems to be no match for a brutal SARS-CoV-2 protein.

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A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously...

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X-ray light sources and electron imaging

SLAC, Stanford researchers make a new type of quantum material with a dramatic distortion pattern

Researchers can ‘see’ crystals perform their dance moves

Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

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

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

Blaine Mooers wins 2022 Lytle Award for decades of synchrotron leadership and RNA research

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Researchers resolve decades-long debate about shock-compressed silicon with unprecedented detail

SARS-CoV-2 protein caught severing critical immunity pathway

‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought

SLAC, Stanford researchers make a new type of quantum material with a dramatic distortion pattern

Researchers can ‘see’ crystals perform their dance moves

Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

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

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

Blaine Mooers wins 2022 Lytle Award for decades of synchrotron leadership and RNA research

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Researchers resolve decades-long debate about shock-compressed silicon with unprecedented detail

SARS-CoV-2 protein caught severing critical immunity pathway

‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought