Every year, thousands of scientists from universities, laboratories and private companies around the world use our cutting-edge research facilities. Their discoveries benefit a wide range of fields, including materials and energy sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, environmental science, engineering, astronomy and physics.
Cryo-EM - Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
The Cryo-EM facility at SLAC, built and operated in partnership with Stanford University, is equipped with multiple state-of-the-art instruments for cryo-electron microscopy, a groundbreaking technology that gives scientists unprecedented views of the molecular world.
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FACET - Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
FACET uses part of SLAC's 2-mile-long linear accelerator to generate high-density particle beams for experiments aimed at improving the power and efficiency of accelerators used in basic research, medicine, industry and other areas important to society.
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LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
LCLS produces ultrafast pulses of X-ray laser light a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, allowing researchers to freeze the motions of atoms and molecules and string those images together to make stop-motion movies.
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SSRL - Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
SSRL provides extremely bright X-rays for a wide range of experiments that probe matter down to the scale of atoms and molecules. These studies target advances in energy production, human health, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology, novel materials and information technology, among other areas.
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LSST - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
LSST will survey the entire visible southern sky every few days for a decade – the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed. Its vast public archive of data will dramatically advance our knowledge of the dark energy and dark matter that make up 95 percent of the universe, as well as galaxy formation and potentially hazardous asteroids.
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