SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette
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Scientists from universities, laboratories and private companies around the world use our cutting-edge research facilities. Their discoveries benefit a wide range of fields, including materials and energy sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, environmental science, engineering, astronomy and physics. The lab also develops relationships with industry and other government agencies to better bridge the gap between scientific discoveries and their practical applications. 

A unique partner 

Founded on partnerships

Stanford University operates SLAC for the DOE Office of Science. Our strong ties with Stanford go all the way back to the lab’s founding and that growing partnership is crucial to carrying out our scientific vision. Stanford and SLAC work together in joint research institutes and centers that focus on cosmology and astrophysics, materials and energy sciences, catalysis, ultrafast science and cryogenic electron microscopy. Our location in Silicon Valley and our connections with DOE, Stanford and other leading research centers speed our progress. We amplify our impact by working with companies to help spread the benefits of basic research into society.

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How to partner with SLAC

Partnering with SLAC gives companies and organizations access to our world-class experimental facilities, expert scientists and patented technologies. Industrial partners, Stanford, Silicon Valley businesses and other government agencies come to us with problems requiring the unique combination of facilities and expertise only SLAC can provide.

SLAC regularly works with companies both small and large to solve technological challenges and advance technology for deployment into the global marketplace. 

Image - Muhammad Shumail, a PhD student, inspects the microwave undulator that he worked to design and build. (Fabricio Sousa/SLAC)

Small businesses or government entities can become SLAC suppliers. Find opportunities, login as an active supplier or register as a new supplier here.

Science and User Support Building (SUSB)

Take advantage of SLAC’s tools and techniques for your research. Learn more about our scientific facilities and how to use them here.

Alex Kintzer and Robert Stroud at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source.

Find more information on our mission to develop relationships with industry and other government agencies to better bridge the gap between scientific discoveries and their practical applications.

The TMO Control Room 1.1 located in the Near Experimental Hall at LCLS

Use our facilities

Our tools and techniques

Thousands of scientists from all over the world come to  SLAC each year to conduct research. SLAC’s scientific users are critical to the laboratory’s success, driving scientific discoveries and contributing to the lab’s technological advancements. 

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Partnerships in our news

News Feature

The Aqueous Battery Consortium of Stanford, SLAC, and 13 others seeks to overcome the limitations of a battery using water as its electrolyte.

News Feature

A materials chemist and SLAC associate scientist, Preefer is excited about the synergies being sparked at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. 

Headshot Molleigh Preefer at SSRL
News Brief

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

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News Feature

The Aqueous Battery Consortium of Stanford, SLAC, and 13 others seeks to overcome the limitations of a battery using water as its electrolyte.

News Feature

A materials chemist and SLAC associate scientist, Preefer is excited about the synergies being sparked at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. 

Headshot Molleigh Preefer at SSRL
News Brief

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

View of a city at twilight with a power transmission tower in foreground
News Feature

Strongly interacting electrons in quantum materials carry heat and charge in a way that’s surprisingly similar to what individual electrons do in normal metals...

An illustration shows electrons transporting heat from a warmer to a cooler area of a material.
News Feature

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

Shocking a diamond with a high-power laser produced defects that propagated faster than the speed of sound.
Press Release

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...

LCLS-II first light