Imagine a tiny light bulb, a handful of nanometers (billionths of a meter) in diameter. It stays on for a time, then blinks unexpectedly out and comes back to life a moment later. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off.
One of ten
national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and
environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also
builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers.
Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a
limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation of State University of New York on behalf
of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit,
applied science and technology organization.
