Exploring Chemical Changes at the Molecular Scale
Using X-ray emission spectroscopy, a team of researchers reveal chemical information about molecules before they are destroyed. Research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory demonstrates that…
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SLAC Physicists Begin Work on Small X-band Photoinjector
As research into ways to accelerate electrons with “X-band” microwaves rather than the S-band waves continues at SLAC, physicists have started commissioning the world’s most…
Bendable Crystals Help Measure the Characteristics of X-Ray Pulses
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory incorporated ultra-thin bendable crystals into a high-resolution spectrometry system for monitoring the characteristics of X-ray pulses. A frustrating flaw…
Probing the Effects of Light at the Atomic Scale
By mixing a pulse of X-rays with a pulse of lower-frequency optical light waves, a team of scientists at the Berkley Lab was able to…
“Self-Seeding” Enhances Linac Coherent Light Source Performance
By using a thin sliver of diamond to filter a laser beam to a single X-ray color, scientists have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source…
SLAC Scientists Complete Terahertz Experiment
Using a pump-probe technique, scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source used terahertz frequencies of light to change the magnetic state of a sample and…
“Pump-Probe” Technique Explores How Molecules Respond to Light
After exciting small, light-sensitive hydrocarbon molecules with light from an ultraviolet laser, Scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source then made quadrillionths-of-a-second snapshots of the…
LCLS Probes Microscopic Components of Air Pollution
While working with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of scientists showed that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing…
LCLS Finding Gives a Better Understanding of Light-Matter Interaction
While conducting experiments with the LCLS’s Atomic Molecular Optical instrument, a team of SLAC physicists found that the damage process in nanometer-sized clusters of atoms…
LCLS Zaps Electrons Out of Atoms, Resulting in Chemical Analysis with Atomic Resolution
A new technique developed by an international research team uses X-ray laser pulses from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to zap the innermost electrons out…
Scientists Look to Photosynthesis for Cheaper and More Efficient Fuels
Scientists from the Berkeley Lab and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using the Linac Coherent Light Source to research a tiny cluster of molecules that…
LCLS Analyzes Tiny Protein Crystals
By using the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford to analyzed tiny protein crystals, scientists demonstrated the potential of free-electron lasers for obtaining the structures…
LCLS Low-Energy Test Just Shy of the 284-Electronvolt Carbon Edge
A recent low-energy test with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source proved that the X-ray laser could dip more deeply into the so-called “water window,” and…
Unexpected Graphite Experiment Results Raise New Questions
While using a technique to simultaneously blast and probe samples of graphite, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory saw ultrafast changes from solid to liquid…
Researchers Use LCLS to Examine Ferroelectric Materials Exposed to Light
Researchers at SLAC’s Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science and the Stanford Materials Science and Engineering Department discovered what is going on when ferroelectric…
Scientists Use Ultra-Short Pulses of Terahertz Laser Light to Manipulate Magnetism
Scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) discovered a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic…