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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Apr-2025 04:08 ET (26-Apr-2025 08:08 GMT/UTC)

SLAC’s high-speed electron camera uncovers a new ‘light-twisting’ behavior in an ultrathin material

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using SLAC’s instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), one of the lab’s world-leading tools for ultrafast science, researchers discovered how an ultrathin material can circularly polarize light. This discovery sets up a promising approach to manipulate light for applications in optoelectronic devices.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Banana fiber provides ’a-peeling’ fodder for undergraduate research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Participants in the SM2ART Research Experience for Undergraduates program got the chance to see what life is like in a research setting. REU participant Brianna Greer studied banana fibers as a reinforcing material in making lightweight parts for cars and bicycles.

Detecting defects in tomorrow’s technology

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from PPPL and the University of Delaware offers an enhanced understanding of common defects in transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) — a potential replacement for silicon in computer chips — and lays the foundation for etching smaller features.

Journal: 2D Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, U.S. National Science Foundation

New director appointed to lead U.S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Business Announcement

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, today announced that Kim Sawyer will become the new director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, effective Aug. 2. Sawyer will serve as the lab’s fifth director in its 40-year history. In this role, Sawyer will be responsible for leading all activities in support of the world’s premiere research institution for exploring the nature of matter.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

SLAC researchers pioneer new methods in ultrafast science for sharper molecular movies

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

SLAC’s “electron camera” can reveal some of nature’s ultrafast processes. Now, researchers across the lab have collaborated to achieve improvements to that tool to make its molecular movies even sharper, keeping SLAC at the forefront of pioneering tools for ultrafast science.

Journal: Structural Dynamics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy issues request for proposals for contractor to manage and operate Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the issuance of a Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the competitive selection of a management and operating contractor for the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF).

Machine learning could aid efforts to answer long-standing astrophysical questions

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PPPL physicists have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as plasmoids. In a novel twist, the program has been trained using simulated data.

Journal: Earth and Space Science

Optoelectronics gain spin control from chiral perovskites and III-V semiconductors

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research effort led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic devices.

Journal: Nature

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