In two recent experiments, SLAC researchers demonstrated new methods to use attosecond pulses in pump-probe experiments and generate high-power attosecond...

Photograph
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

Photograph
Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.


Photograph
A narrow two-mile long building stretches through trees and foothills.

Illustration
Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.

Illustration
Illustration from SLAC Public Lecture Improving batteries from the atoms up.


Photograph
The nanoscale patterns of SLAC and Stanford’s accelerator on a chip gleam in rainbow colors prior to being assembled and cut into their final...

Photograph
SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module, 2.2-megapixel ePix10k X-ray camera.

