Applied Sciences on the Run: X-ray machine has come to life at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The world's brightest X-ray machine has come to life at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the hills near Stanford University.     more...

Applied Sciences on the Run: Accelerating electrons - the Ginzton Laboratory of Stanford

Since the early 1930's, William W. Hansen had wanted to use high-frequency waves to accelerate particles to high energy. Two brothers, Sigurd and Russell Varian, who were interested in generating the very-high-frequency short wavelength signals needed     more...

How fast is ultrafast?

Assistant Professor Aaron Lindenberg’s subjects are the individual molecules and atoms that vibrate and zip through the hustle and flow of matter as it changes. Their size is so small and their motion so fast that he needs quite simply the fastest and sharpest camera on Earth. He’ll have exactly that when an incredibly powerful x-ray beam known as the Linac Coherent Light Source     more...