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Ringing in the New Year: NSLS-II Booster Achieves Design Energy
Minutes past midnight on December 31, 2013, electrons accelerated to the design energy of 3 billion electron volts (GeV) around the booster ring of the National Synchrotron Light Source II. More...
For Scientists & Facility Users
As a national user research facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) offers scientists from academia, government labs, and other institutions exciting research possibilities in a wide variety of fields. Infrared, ultraviolet, and x-ray light produced by NSLS allow scientists to examine materials and processes at a scale that is not possible at other types of research labs or facilities.
The successor to NSLS, NSLS-II is scheduled to be operating by 2015 as the world's most advanced synchrotron light source. The new facility will have extremely high brightness and flux; exceptional beam stability; and a suite of advanced instruments, optics, and detectors. Taking advantage of these new capabilities, scientists will be able to image materials with nanoscale resolution and determine chemical activity in fine detail.
At NSLS, guest scientists can choose from a range of research techniques and equipment. As an NSLS (and future NSLS-II) user, you will discover that Brookhaven Lab's synchrotron facilities can provide the tools to perform cutting-edge research that is not possible at your home institution. You will also have the support of a well-trained staff. More »
Industrial Collaborators
The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and its future successor, NSLS-II, can help companies large and small solve research and manufacturing problems, generate new technologies and products, and stay competitive.
The Photon Sciences Directorate would like to encourage greater use of its facilities by industrial researchers and facilitate collaborations between industry and NSLS staff, as well as government and academic institutions. More »
For Educators
Teachers and students are welcome to experience science first hand at NSLS and NSLS-II. We work primarily in partnership with Brookhaven Lab's Office of Educational Programs, which coordinates programs aimed at boosting teachers' content knowledge and improving student achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These programs help motivate and prepare all students, especially minorities and females, and address the serious under representation of minorities and females in STEM careers. A diverse workforce of scientists, engineers, and educators will help keep America at the forefront of innovation. More »
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Exciting science is happening every day at NSLS, while construction moves ahead at NSLS-II. Journalists are invited to use the links below for the latest news and developments at both facilities. Please contact a Brookhaven media rep for more information and to arrange interviews.
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What's a synchrotron?
The human eye can see only visible light. It comes in the form of different wavelengths. These wavelengths are what create the colors of the rainbow. Other wavelengths of lights are not visible to the human eye. Although, we cannot see them, these types of light are also used in our everyday life. For example, a TV remote control uses infrared light to adjust the volume or change the channel of the TV. Airport scanners use x-rays to scan luggage. Tanning lamps use ultraviolet light to tan the skin. Microwave ovens use microwaves to cook your food.
A synchrotron is a huge machine that produces very bright light of many different wavelengths. The light is much brighter than that found in your TV remote, microwave oven, or dentist's x-ray machine because the synchrotron beams of light are focused into very small spots. Think of a synchrotron as a giant microscope, allowing us to see matter at the atomic scale. More »
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MAR
27
Thursday
NSLS-II Seminar
"A metallic glass that grows from the melt like a crystal"
Presented by Gabrielle Long, ANL, United States Minor Outlying Islands
2 pm, Bldg. 743 Rm 177
Thursday, March 27, 2014, 2:00 pm
Hosted by: Wah-Keat Lee
Canceled Seminar scheduled for 2/13/14 due to snow and will be rescheduled. Exact date is unknown but selected 3/27/14 as an estimated dated (posted by em 2/12/14). When a molten material is cooled, it typically grows into orderly crystals. But if the cooling rate is too fast for the entire melt to crystallize, the remaining material ends up in a non-crystalline state known as a glass. This talk is about the discovery and characterization of a unique metallic glass that, during rapid cooling, forms a solid by means of nucleation followed by growth normal to a moving interface between the solid and melt, with partitioning of the chemical elements. We were able to show experimentally that this is not a polycrystalline composite with nanometer-sized grains, and conclude that this may be a new kind of structure: an atomically ordered, isotropic, non-crystalline solid, possessing no long-range translational symmetry. This novel structureâ€"isotropic with infinite rotational symmetry and no translational symmetryâ€"had been considered theoretically possible, but has never before been observed.
