A team of electrical designers develops specialized microchips for a broad range of scientific applications, including X-ray science and particle physics.

Their work will deepen our understanding of matter in extreme conditions and fundamental particle physics.

Tony Heinz and Z-X Shen will receive funding for research focused on catalysis and novel states of matter.

The new technology could allow next-generation instruments to explore the atomic world in ever more detail.

The DOE’s top official met with SLAC staff and toured the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, where a superconducting upgrade is underway.

Unique device will create bunches of electrons to stimulate million-per-second X-ray pulses for LCLS-II.

The 40-foot-long segment of the new superconducting accelerator arrived on January 19, 2018 after a cross-country trip from Fermilab.

The first cryomodule has arrived at SLAC. Linked together and chilled to nearly absolute zero, 37 of these segments will accelerate electrons to almost the speed of light and power an upgrade to the nation’s only X-ray free-electron laser facility.

As members of the lab’s Computer Science Division, they develop the tools needed to handle ginormous data volumes produced by the next generation of scientific discovery machines.

Planning the next big science machine requires consideration of both the current landscape and the distant future.

Innovations at SLAC, including the world’s shortest X-ray flashes, ultra-high-speed pulse trains and smart computer controls, promise to take ultrafast X-ray science to a whole new level.

The cryogenic plant responsible for keeping LCLS-II’s superconducting linear accelerator at just a few degrees above absolute zero recently received its first warm helium compressors.