Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a method that could open up new scientific avenues by making the light from powerful ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 7, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Washington are using supercomputers at Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and data from X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) experiments to gain ...
General Physics
May 31, 2016
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Researchers have made the first microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by the world's brightest X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The new data could lead to better and ...
General Physics
May 24, 2016
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In the world of particle accelerators, laser wakefield devices are the small, but mighty upstarts. The machines can accelerate electrons to near the speed of light using a fraction of the distance required by conventional ...
General Physics
May 10, 2016
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A quick flash of light can make ordinary materials extraordinary, potentially inducing qualities such as the perfect efficiency of superconductivity even at room temperature. But these subatomic transformations are infamously ...
Condensed Matter
May 10, 2016
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A number of important biological processes, such as photosynthesis and vision, depend on light. But it's hard to capture responses of biomolecules to light because they happen almost instantaneously.
General Physics
May 5, 2016
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A unique rapid-fire electron source—originally built as a prototype for driving next-generation X-ray lasers—is helping scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) study ...
General Physics
Apr 26, 2016
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Since Friday, 8 April at 12:14 h FLASH is running in parallel operation for two user experiments, one in the experimental hall "Albert Einstein" (FLASH1) and one in the new hall "Kai Siegbahn" (FLASH2). First official FLASH2 ...
General Physics
Apr 19, 2016
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Construction begins today on a major upgrade to a unique X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The project will add a second X-ray laser beam that's 10,000 times brighter, on average, ...
General Physics
Apr 4, 2016
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X-ray free-electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these unique X-rays to explore matter at the atomic scale and observe processes that occur in just ...
General Physics
Apr 4, 2016
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