Posted August 30, 2012
Laser Mashup: Researchers Mix X-ray, Optical Beams to Create Atomic Gauge
In a paper published Aug. 30 in Nature, an international team of researchers working at the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory describe a promising new method that directly measures, in atomic detail, how light manipulates electric charge in a material.
Posted August 10, 2012
Stanford Physicist Wins Prestigious Dirac Medal
At the peak of the Olympic Games, the gold medal of theoretical physics has just been announced. Stanford physics professor Shoucheng Zhang and two other physicists were awarded the Dirac Medal for their research on a novel type of matter known as a "topological insulator." Zhang is also a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), a division of SLAC.
Posted January 24, 2013
Jan. 28 SLAC Colloquium: Opportunities, Challenges in Observing Chemical Reactions in Real Time
Posted January 23, 2013
Jan. 29 SLAC Public Lecture: Building a Better Computer at the Scale of Electrons
Posted January 23, 2013
Today: Photon Science Seminar - New Techniques for Probing, Controlling Non-adiabatic Molecular Dynamics
Posted January 10, 2013
Stanford Physics Colloquium: Device Engineering with Quantum/Artificial Materials
Posted January 7, 2013
Stanford Physics Colloquium: Tunable Optical Properties of Graphene
Posted December 21, 2012
Phrase of the Week: No-Man's Land
A temperature range for supercooled water, from about minus 42 degrees to minus 215 degrees Fahrenheit, has been dubbed “no-man’s land.” Near the top of this range, water crystallizes into ice so rapidly that it can be difficult to observe the molecules that remain in liquid form. At the colder end of the range, it forms a glassy, non-crystallized solid.
Posted November 30, 2012
Word of the Week: Exciton
An "exciton" is a quasiparticle: a collection of properties that exhibits particle-like behavior and can be scientifically studied in much the same way as an actual particle. Excitons are created when a material absorbs energy, exciting electrons to jump from their positions in atoms to new locations while retaining an attraction to the vacant spaces, or "holes," they left behind.
Posted November 20, 2012
SSRL Users Have It Made in the Shade
Completion of a multi-year project to ensure steadier electron beams and software and hardware upgrades at several beamlines promise a productive run at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.
Materials Science
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