SSRL produces extremely bright X-ray light for probing our world at the atomic and molecular level. More than 1,600 scientists from all over the world use it each year for research that spurs advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology and new materials. Outstanding support for scientific users

2025年2月21日 · SSRL is a pioneering synchrotron radiation facility known for outstanding science, technological innovation and user support. It provides extremely bright X-rays that scientists use for a wide range of research that probes …

In 1990, SSRL built its own injector booster ring, which allowed the facility to become independent of the SLAC LINAC. SPEAR became fully dedicated as the SSRL synchrotron source in 1991 with a first long run in 1993. In 2003, SPEAR went through a major rebuild and became the low-emittance SPEAR3 storage ring.

Research at SSRL has contributed to more than 15,000 scientific publications since it began operating as the first high-energy X-ray user facility in the United States in 1974. It also led to the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry, awarded to Stanford Professor Roger Kornberg for revealing how DNA directs cells’ protein manufacturing.

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SSRL is known for its outstanding support and training for sci-entists and engineers. Researchers from a wide variety of fields have published almost 12,700 scientific papers based on work at SSRL since it opened in 1974. Saving Lives Pharmaceutical companies use the SSRL beamlines to find potential drugs that fit snugly into targets in the cell.

2024年9月20日 · Christian Tanner (Venture Photography) What Christian Tanner wants to do, ultimately, is help create materials that could be applied to building better solar cells or video displays — and to do that big-picture work, he coaxes nanoscopically tiny building blocks to put themselves together and watches the process unfold using X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron …

2024年10月15日 · The meeting also provided an opportunity to announce the recipients of the annual LCLS and SSRL awards, including Takahiro Sato (LCLS Users’ Recognition Award), Adrien Descamps (LCLS Young Investigator Award), Haleh Alimohamadi (William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award), Christian Tanner (SSRL Scientific Development Award) …

2025年1月8日 · Catalysts are the unsung heroes that accelerate reactions and drive innovations. My team partners with leading catalysis researchers, harnessing the advanced capabilities of SSRL to propel the field of catalysis into new frontiers. Together, we are paving the way for groundbreaking discoveries and transformative advancements.

2019年6月3日 · Researchers at ESRF and SSRL created systems for scanning as many electrode particles as possible in a single go and produced X-ray images for analysis. Maps of particle cracking and degradation at the surfaces of particles can now serve as reference tools for understanding the full range of potential damage in battery electrodes.