09.21.16User Facility
Researchers at the Stanford PULSE Institute and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have exploited the Schroedinger’s Cat paradox - that an atom or molecule can also be in two different states at once - to create X-ray movies of atomic motion with much more detail than ever before. Read More
09.21.16From the Labs
Scientists at Berkeley Lab and Cornell University have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics. Read More
09.19.16User Facility
The Department of Energy (DOE) will invest $16 million over the next four years in supercomputer technology that will accelerate the design of new materials by combining theoretical and experimental efforts to create new validated codes. Read More
09.19.16User Facility
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their research partners have used neutron scattering to discover the key to piezoelectric excellence in the newer materials, which are called relaxor-based ferroelectrics. Read More
09.16.16User Facility
In August, the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source—both U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facilities at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory—reached a milestone with the arrival of Irina Nesmelova, the facilities’ 20,000th user. Read More
09.16.16User Facility
NASA engineers used the Neutron Residual Stress Mapping Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor to study residual stress in additive manufactured materials which could significantly reduce cost and schedule of flight hardware component manufacture and qualify the materials for flight. Read More
09.16.16From the Labs
Work on computing the behaviors of the smallest bits of matter in the universe at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has just gotten a nod from Intel®, as the laboratory becomes the newest Intel® Parallel Computing Center. Read More
09.15.16From the Labs
Researchers studying the behavior of nanoscale materials at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that a single crystal complex oxide material can act like a multi-component electrical circuit that could advance microprocessors beyond today’s silicon-based chips. Read More
09.14.16Profile
As an R&D engineer in the Electro-Mechanical Systems group, studying system integration at Oak Ridge National Lab, Ezell is an example and mentor for the next generation of engineers. Read More
09.12.16From the Labs
This summer's Scientific Computing 102 internship prepared college students for the big data challenges facing researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Read More