Scientists Developing Innovative Techniques for High-Resolution Analysis of Hybrid Materials
In an effort to better study a promising class of materials that could energize the solar cell industry, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new method of analyzing the material’s molecular-scale structure.
Read more about Scientists Developing Innovative Techniques for High-Resolution Analysis of Hybrid MaterialsAmes Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory were able to successfully manipulate the electronic structure of graphene, which may enable the fabrication of graphene transistors-- faster and more reliable than existing silicon-based transistors.
Read more about Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor ApplicationsNew X-Ray Laser Technique Reveals Magnetic Skyrmion Fluctuations
A new way of operating the powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has enabled researchers to detect and measure fluctuations in magnetic structures being considered for new data storage and computing technologies.
Read more about New X-Ray Laser Technique Reveals Magnetic Skyrmion FluctuationsThe Outsized Role of Soil Microbes
Three scientists have proposed a new approach to better understand the role of soil organic matter in long-term carbon storage and its response to changes in global climate and atmospheric chemistry.
Read more about The Outsized Role of Soil MicrobesSLAC’s Blair Ratcliff Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award
The emeritus physicist was honored for the development of novel detectors that have greatly advanced experiments in particle physics, especially BABAR, which looked into the matter-antimatter imbalance of the universe.
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This summer, two student interns and their professor from Texas Southern University (TSU) are making a significant impact on the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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For Dhruvit Patel, a rising senior majoring in mechanical engineering and physics at Rutgers University, the 10 weeks he spent at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) were a welcome opportunity to do hands-on research.
Read more about Young Scientists Show Off Hands-on Research Projects at PPPLGuang Zhang’s Great Leap Forward in Understanding Deep Convection
Research meteorologist Guang Zhang solves convection puzzles at a bank of computers, integrating observational data with computer simulations that have predictive value, for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Read more about Guang Zhang’s Great Leap Forward in Understanding Deep ConvectionNational Synchrotron Light Source II Celebrates Two Years of User Operations
In July of 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory wished a happy second birthday to the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). Located at Brookhaven, NSLS-II is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that provides ultra-bright x-rays for cutting-edge science research.
Read more about National Synchrotron Light Source II Celebrates Two Years of User OperationsPPPL Physicist Discovers That Some Plasma Instabilities Can Extinguish Themselves
Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has for the first time used advanced models to accurately simulate key characteristics of the cyclic behavior of edge-localized modes (ELMs), a particular type of plasma instability.
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Using the optical spectroscopy and microscopy capabilities at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), City College of New York Professor Menon studies light-matter interaction at extremely small scales.
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Argonne National Laboratory has collaborated with the University of Illinois, teaming up two supercomputers to perform simulation and data analysis of extremely large-scale, computationally intensive models of the universe.
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