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Meet the Director: Kelly Gaffney

Kelly Gaffney is the director of the SSRL, a user facility that produces extremely bright x-rays as a resource for researchers to study our world at the atomic and molecular level of energy production, environmental remediation, nanotechnology, new materials, and medicine.

Meet the Director: John Hill

John Hill directs the NSLS-II User Facility in its mission, providing extremely bright X-rays for basic and applied research in biology and medicine, materials and chemical sciences, geosciences and environmental sciences, and nanoscience.

New Director Named to Lead U.S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC announce that Stuart Henderson will become the new Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia.

Light Can Switch On Topological Materials

Computer simulations show how light pulses can create channels that conduct electricity with no resistance in atomically thin semiconductors.

Researchers Use World's Smallest Diamonds to Make Wires Three Atoms Wide

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a way to use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires, just three atoms wide.

Laser Pulses Help Scientists Tease Apart Complex Electron Interactions

Time-resolved "stop-action" measurements identify an unusual form of energy loss.

New Graphene-Based System Could Help Us ‘See’ Electrical Signaling in Heart and Nerve Cells

Berkeley-Stanford team creates a system to visualize faint electric fields.

Meet the Director: Buddy Bland

Project director Buddy Bland lives the DOE’s computing mission: to discover, develop, and use computers to solve the biggest problems in science, industry, and government.