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Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”

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An illustration of electrolyte molecules arranging themselves into layers within a few nanometers of a battery electrode.

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Poster titled Axions: Ghost Riders in the Sky

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SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...

SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging instrument

Top: An optical microscope image of crystallized photolyase enzymes before they are probed by the LCLS X-ray laser. Bottom: An...

$Top: An optical microscope image of crystallized photolyase, Bottom: An X-ray diffraction pattern from the photolyase crystals.$

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An illustration shows nanocrystals assembling into an ordered ‘superlattice.’

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Holograms at the Nanoscale: New Imaging for Nature¹s Tiniest Structures

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Organic semiconductors hold immense promise for use in thin film and flexible displays – picture an iPad you can roll up – but they...

Single crystal of new organic semiconductor shown in polarized light (Image by Anatoliy Sokolov.)

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In repeatedly and systematically surveying the sky with deep, large-field-of-view images in six optical color bands on a 3 billion pixel camera for years...

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Shutdown doesn't mean slow down for workers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Linac Coherent Light Source, LCLS.

LCLS Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Endstation

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from Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Who we are

SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

The Fundamental Universe, Looking for Zebras, and the World’s Largest Demolition Derby

What is a Femtosecond?

Pulsars

Molecular layers in battery electrolyte

Axions poster

Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument

Crystallized photolyase

Nanocrystals ‘superlattice’

Holograms at the Nanoscale: New Imaging for Nature’s Tiniest Structures

Researchers Pioneer Quick Way to Develop Faster Organic Semiconductors for Flexible Displays

The LSST: Knowing the Telescope Before It is Built

LCLS Ramps Up for Fourth Experimental Run

LCLS Teams Up with DESY on Shortest X-ray Exposure of a Protein Crystal Ever