♻️Continuing our series of spotlights on sustainability research with energy systems engineer Gustavo Cezar, who earned his PhD from Stanford last year. With Stanford students and faculty, he researches advanced energy technologies and their impacts on the electrical grid. He aims to better design solutions that work in real-world settings by testing them in various sectors such as residential, commercial, military and rural settings. Read on and stay tuned to meet researchers across the lab that are inspired by reimagining our energy future: https://lnkd.in/gMNJeikW #sustainability
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Research Services
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About us
What started as a group of 200 people, all focused on a single project – to build and operate the world’s longest linear accelerator – has grown over the last 60 years into a large and diverse workforce that performs and supports cutting-edge research across a variety of disciplines. Our 1,700 employees include scientists, engineers, technicians and specialists in a wide range of operational support areas, from human resources and business services to facilities, security and maintenance, all working together in a collaborative environment. SLAC employs the best and brightest minds in their fields, and every member of our staff, working individually and in teams, makes important contributions to our success. By tapping into the interest and motivation of our employees and offering guidance and opportunities for development, we seek to provide an enriching work environment. As Stanford employees, SLAC staff members have the opportunity to partner with other world-class talent at one of the world’s best universities and can also take advantage of the many educational and social opportunities that Stanford offers.
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https://www6.slac.stanford.edu
External link for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Research Services
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California
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- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1962
- Specialties
- Electron-based accelerator research and technology, Theory and innovative techniques for data analysis, modeling, and simulation in Photon Science, Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics, and Particle detector research and technology
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2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California 94025, US
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"SLAC's grand scientific challenges are generating enormous data sets -- the raw fuel for AI. In connecting SLAC science and expertise to AI research at Stanford, we see many opportunities to drive innovation together." – Daniel Ratner, machine learning initiative lead and SLAC scientist Our Oct 2 workshop co-hosted with Stanford University aims to foster collaborations between SLAC scientists and Stanford AI researchers in line with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s vision for AI applications. SLAC’s research and science facilities could benefit from new AI-enabled capabilities in photon science, high-energy physics, astrophysics, materials science, and more.
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Congratulations to SLAC’s Jerome Hastings, a winner of the Tohoku University International Award 2024! 🏆 Hastings is being honored for his role as an advisor in the creation of the Nano Terasu storage ring facility at Tohoku University: https://bit.ly/4gM11Y8
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“SLAC makes transformative discoveries with far-reaching benefits." - Kathryn Ann “Kam” Moler. Stanford recently announced that she is the next Stanford vice president for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Congratulations! https://lnkd.in/gPwpJKfa
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👻 🍬 This is no trick and all treat! Registrations are OPEN for this month's free public tours - sign up and see where the research happens. #SLACtour https://lnkd.in/gxQrSmrd
Public Tour registration | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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🌎 Scientists used SLAC’s X-ray laser to unlock the secrets Earth's deep interior, opening new research avenues in Earth and planetary sciences. More here: https://lnkd.in/gXGnSxSs
X-rays unlock secrets of Earth's core-mantle boundary and super-Earth magma oceans
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🤔 Are we coming to a conference near you!? Find us at one of these upcoming events and learn how you can #joinSLAC below 👇 #hiring #opportunities #SLAChires
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Professor @ Stanford/SLAC | X-ray Science, Electronics and Nanophotonics, Ultrafast Optics and Lasers, Sustainability
Can we push the boundaries of electronics to its ultimate speed limit? While conventional electronics operates in the gigahertz range, lightwave-driven circuitry has the potential to catapult us into the realm of petahertz electronics—up to a million times faster. Imagine cutting simulations that take a year down to just 30 seconds! Such a leap would transform countless aspects of our lives. Petahertz, or lightwave electronics, leverages finely tuned optical waveforms to control charge carriers in electronic circuits at petahertz frequencies. Over the past few years, researchers have measured petahertz-scale currents in solid-state and nanoscale systems, demonstrating sub-optical-cycle current generation and the ability to resolve optical-field-driven waveforms down to the sub-femtosecond level. We've also made strides toward digital and quantum functionality, exploring optical-field-driven logic and memory. In this review article, published in Nature Reviews, co-authors Christian Heide, Donnie Keathley, and I explore the progress made toward sub-cycle field-driven current injection, delving into the core theoretical principles, experimental milestones, and the remaining challenges on our path to realizing petahertz electronics. This technology holds immense promise for ultrafast optical waveform analysis, digital logic, communications, and even quantum computation. The future of petahertz electronics sits at the exciting intersection of ultrafast and materials science, and I’m thrilled to see where the next decade takes us! A huge thanks to my co-authors Christian Heide and Donnie Keathley, as well as the support of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the Stanford PULSE Institute at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for making this work possible. #PetahertzElectronics #UltrafastScience #QuantumComputing #Nanotechnology #Photonics #Innovation https://lnkd.in/geubyNUs
Petahertz electronics - Nature Reviews Physics
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Breakthrough in Non-linear X-ray Science: Stimulated X-ray Raman Scattering in Liquid Water Exciting news! For the first time, stimulated x-ray Raman scattering has been observed in liquid water using attosecond pulses at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. This groundbreaking study, led by Jon Marangos at Imperial College London and published in Science Advances, opens new avenues for exploring electronic excitations in materials. X-ray Raman scattering, a two-photon non-linear process, has long been used with optical and infrared wavelengths to probe vibrational excitations. Now, with x-rays, it allows scientists to delve into electronic excitations, offering unprecedented insights into molecular behavior. In this study, single attosecond pulses (~400 as) with a coherent energy bandwidth > 7 eV were used to excite a superposition of electronic states in the water molecule. The resulting excited state spectrum was encoded in the Raman emission photon spectrum. Currently limited to 120 Hz repetition rates, future measurements will see a dramatic increase in data rates (>1000x) with the new superconducting XFEL at LCLS, enabling even deeper exploration of time-resolved stimulated Raman emission from complex materials. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gCFr8gWT #XRayScience #RamanScattering #AttosecondPulses #LCLS #XFEL #ScienceBreakthrough
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San José State recently joined the Aqueous Battery Consortium, an energy hub research project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and led by Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The project aims to find a reliable, sustainable way to store electricity, partially by creating a rechargeable battery made mostly of water (the “aqueous” part of the consortium) and other abundant materials. And SJSU is in on the project: Dahyun Oh, associate professor of materials engineering, will be on two teams within the consortium. “My lab, the Energy Materials Laboratory, will contribute to the understanding of the interface between aqueous electrolytes and electrodes,” she explains. “This is an absolutely groundbreaking opportunity for my career, as well as for the SJSU students who will join this project. This consortium will provide a golden opportunity for students to learn, engage, develop research skills and build networks.” Read on for more about this exciting project: https://ow.ly/G2IT50TwIPw