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The early-career award honors a promising leader in X-ray free-electron laser research.

SLAC's Tais Gorkhover
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A new imaging technique is allowing researchers to pinpoint ways of modifying drugs to avoid side effects.

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To break, or not to break: An unprecedented atomic movie captures the moment when molecules decide how to respond to light.

UED Bond Breaking
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Animation of a trifluoroiodomethane molecule (carbon shown in black, fluoride in green, iodine in pink) responding to laser light. The...
UED Bond Breaking
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Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for research that studies fundamental particles, nanoscale objects, quantum materials...

Photos of SLAC's 2018 Early Career Award winners
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With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen. The words had been...

hands holding an old book page in front of synchrotron X-ray imaging equipment
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Using SLAC’s X-ray laser, researchers have made detailed 3-D images of nanoscale biology, with future applications in the study of air pollution, combustion and...

Colorful image formed from multiple X-ray diffraction patterns.
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In experiments with the lab’s ultrafast "electron camera," laser light hitting a material is almost completely converted into nuclear vibrations, which are key to...

UED Molybdenum Diselenide
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This novel method could shrink the equipment needed to make laser pulses billionths of a billionth of a second long for studying ultra-speedy electron...

In this illustration, a near-infrared laser beam hits a piece of ordinary glass and triggers a process called high harmonic generation
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The early career award from SLAC’s X-ray laser recognizes Kjaer’s work in ultrafast X-ray science.

photo of Kasper Kjaer in Panofsky Auditorium
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SLAC’s ultrafast “electron camera” reveals unusual atomic motions that could be crucial for the efficiency of next-generation perovskite solar cells.

UED Perovskites
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The research team was able to watch energy from light flow through atomic ripples in a molecule. Such insights may provide new ways to...

View of the The X-ray Pump Probe instrument at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source.