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The NSLS-II Project is seeking engineers, research associates and
others to join the team.
See this video for an overview of
opportunities available at NSLS-II, presented by current team members. |
About the NSLS-II Project
Brookhaven’s current light
source — the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) — is one of the
world’s most widely used scientific facilities. Each year, 2,100 researchers
from 400 universities, government laboratories, and companies use its bright
beams of x-rays, ultraviolet light, and infrared light for research in such
diverse fields as biology and medicine, chemistry and environmental
sciences, physics, and materials science.
Meeting the critical
scientific challenges of our energy future will require advanced new
capabilities that a new facility called NSLS-II will uniquely provide. NSLS-II will be a new
state-of-the-art, medium-energy electron storage ring (3 billion
electron-volts) designed to deliver world-leading intensity and
brightness, and will produce x-rays more than 10,000 times brighter than
the current NSLS.
Clean,
Affordable Energy
NSLS-II will enable highly reactive gold nanoparticles to
be imaged in situ, inside porous hosts and under real
reaction conditions. This will lead to new materials to
split water with sunlight for hydrogen production and
harvest solar energy with high efficiency and low cost.
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Molecular
Electronics
NSLS-II will allow scientists to observe fundamental
material properties with nanometer-scale resolution and
atomic sensitivity. For example, new electronic materials
that scale beyond silicon could be used for making faster
and cheaper electronics that consume less power.
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Self-Assembly
NSLS-II will enable
scientists to understand how to create large-scale,
hierarchical structures from nanometer-scale building
blocks, mimicking nature to assemble nanomaterials into
useful devices more simply and economically.
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High-Temp. Superconductors
NSLS-II will also allow scientists to study how materials
become high temperature superconductors – this may lead to
materials that are superconducting at room temperature and
allow efficient transmission of electricity. |
Construction of NSLS-II began in 2009. Operations are
expected in 2015. (See a
summary of technical capabilities that NSLS-II
will provide.)
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