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Engineering is at the heart of SLAC’s scientific innovation, from large scale projects like the LSST Camera and the LCLS X-ray laser upgrade to detectors and software solutions.

Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.

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The lab is responding to the coronavirus crisis by imaging disease-related biomolecules, developing standards for reliable coronavirus testing and enabling other essential research.

SARS-CoV-2
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Researchers have squeezed a high-energy electron beam into tight bundles using terahertz radiation, a promising advance in watching the ultrafast world of atoms unfold.

SLAC’s Emma Snively and Mohamed Othman at the lab’s high-speed “electron camera."
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SLAC scientists and collaborators are developing 3D copper printing techniques to build accelerator components.

3D-printed copper components
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Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take place in billionths of a billionth of a...

XLEAP illustration.
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Early-career physicist Jonathan LeyVa helps build one of the world’s most sensitive dark matter detectors.

Jonathan LeyVa/SuperCDMS
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Two projects will look for ways to link individual quantum devices into networks for quantum computing and ultrasensitive detectors.

QIS microantenna
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SLAC/Stanford scientists and their colleagues find a new way to efficiently convert CO2 into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels.

Graves-Bajdich-Machalo
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At SLAC’s FACET facility, researchers have produced an intense electron beam by 'sneaking’ electrons into plasma, demonstrating a method that could be used in...

Trojan horse illustration
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The SLAC scientists will each receive $2.5 million for their research on fusion energy and advanced radiofrequency technology.

Gleason-Gamzina-ECA2019
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Four large meshes made from 2 miles of metal wire will extract potential signals of dark matter particles.

LZ Grids Weaving
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SLAC completed its work on ComCam, a commissioning device to be installed in Chile later this year.

LSST-ComCam
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Building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope also means solving extraordinary technological challenges.

LSST camera engineering