X-ray science

Photon science, a spin-off of particle physics, has returned to its roots for help developing better, faster detectors.

SLAC-invented Etching Process Builds Custom Nanostructures for X-ray Optics

SLAC Experiment Provides New Insight About How Electrons Move Across Molecules

Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

Exploding Soccer Ball-shaped Molecules Will Help Biological Studies

SLAC Research Reveals Rapid DNA Changes that Act as Molecular Sunscreen

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus 51 degrees Fahrenheit, within an elusive “no man’s land” where water’s strange properties are super-amplified.

A sense of adventure and intellectual rigor led PULSE chemistry professor Kelly Gaffney to a successful career in science.

Even in their infancy, X-ray lasers such as SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source are notching a list of important discoveries, and a special issue of a scientific journal highlights their unique contributions to biological sciences.

SLAC scientists have found a new way to produce bright pulses of light from accelerated electrons that could shrink "light source" technology used around the world since the 1970s to examine details of atoms and chemical reactions.