Phrase of the Week: Terahertz Radiation
"Terahertz radiation" is a neglected band on the electromagnetic spectrum. It doesn't work well for long-distance communication, it doesn't penetrate materials very deeply, and it's hard to generate and control. Nevertheless, terahertz radiation can give us important information, and the so-called "terahertz gap" is beginning to be filled in.
SIMES/PULSE Researcher Honored for Advancing Ultrafast X-ray Experimental Capabilities
Tim Miller, a graduate-student member of the SIMES and Stanford PULSE institutes, will receive the 2012 Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award for his leadership and ingenuity in establishing a new type of experimental capability that enables ultrafast X-ray experiments at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.
SLAC at 50: Honoring the Past and Creating the Future
Nearly 2,000 people will gather at SLAC today and tomorrow to celebrate 50 years of scientific achievements and look forward to the lab’s next half century.
In the early 1960s, a two-and-a-half-mile-long strip of land in the rolling hills west of Stanford University was transformed into fertile ground for physicists' dreams.
User Spotlight: Studying Air, Artifacts, Meteorites and More at SSRL
Xradia: A Pioneering Provider of Innovative X-Ray Microscopes
SLAC All Access: X-ray Microscope
SLAC physicists Johanna Nelson and Yijin Liu give a brief overview of the X-ray microscope at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) that is helping improve rechargeable-battery technology by letting researchers peek into the inner workings of batteries as they operate.
SSRL Contributes to Platinum-based Catalyst Design
LCLS/SSRL Users' Meeting, Oct. 3-6
From the Director of SSRL and Acting Director of Photon Science
As many of you know, when Cynthia Friend stepped down from her position as associate lab director of the Photon Science Directorate on July 31, I became acting ALD in addition to my role as ALD for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. I write this column wearing that dual hat, so it is fitting I share a couple of things that matter to each directorate and demonstrate how they are connected.
SSRL Data Advances Prostate Cancer Drug Design
User Spotlight: Pushing the Boundaries of Batteries
Stanford-SLAC Team Uses X-ray Imaging to Observe Running Batteries in Real Time
Research at SSRL Discovers How Fungus Could Aid Mine Cleanups
With the help of work done at the the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Harvard-led researchers have discovered that a fungus common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction. The key chemical in the process, superoxide, is a byproduct of fungal growth when the organism produces spores.
Harvard-led researchers have discovered that an Ascomycete fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction.
Structural Molecular Biology Summer School 2012
Coherent Diffraction Imaging and Resonant Magnetic Scattering
Power Plants: Scientists Use X-ray Laser to Probe Engines of Photosynthesis
The molecular power plants that carry out photosynthesis are at the root of a scientific quest to learn how they channel energy from sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Understanding these fundamental processes could help scientists develop technologies that replicate nature’s handiwork to produce cheaper and more efficient fuels.
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The molecular power plants that carry out photosynthesis are at the root of a scientific quest to learn how they channel energy from sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
SLAC Synchrotron Reveals Core of Ancient Warship Battering Ram
In a recently published paper, scientists from SLAC and the University of Palermo reveal the underlying materials of a bronze, beak-like ram that an ancient warship used to sink enemies before it went to its own watery grave off the coast of Sicily some 2,300 years ago.
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