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SLAC is the world’s leading center for developing “ultrafast” X-ray, laser and electron beams that allow us to see atoms and molecules moving in just millionths of a billionth of a second. We can even create stop-action movies of these tiny events.

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This illustration shows how the first experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser stripped away electrons from neon atoms. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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When scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused the full intensity of the world’s most powerful X-ray l

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Berkeley Lab is overseeing development of specialized undulators that will produce X-ray light at LCLS-II by wiggling electrons.

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Researchers at SLAC are already looking at the largely unexplored realm of attosecond science.

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Aaron Lindenberg, associate professor at Stanford and SLAC, talks about how he combines X-ray and electron techniques to understand and engineer novel materials.

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Read about how SLAC professor Siegfried Glenzer creates extreme conditions like those in the cores of planets and studies nuclear fusion.

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Take a digital tour of the undulators and near experimental hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

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PULSE scientist Amy Cordones-Hahn describes her work on chemical reactions that turn sunlight into useable energy.

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Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

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Learn about X-ray detectors from Gabriella Cabrini, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

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Physicist Phil Bucksbaum gives a brief introduction to Femtosecond Week at SLAC.

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SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.

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Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.