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2017 ALS Shutdown Recap

The last few months were quieter than usual for ALS users but not for staff tasked with maintaining and improving the ALS. The recent ALS shutdown was one of the longest on record, spanning almost three months. Those involved say it was also one of the most successful, with everything on the to-do list crossed off. The work accomplished paves the way for new beamlines, better water-cooling capacity, and ALS-U. Read more »

Andrea Jones, ALS Proposal Coordinator

Andi Jones joined the ALS User Services Office as proposal coordinator last April and has taken over the processing and tracking of General User, RAPIDD, and Approved Program proposals. She also maintains the ALS publications database and serves as a point of contact for users who have beamtime or proposal questions. Read more »

2016-17 ALS Doctoral Fellows

The ALS Doctoral Fellowship program allows early-career researchers to spend a year in residence at the ALS acquiring hands-on scientific training and developing professional skills to complement their doctoral research. This year’s program is one of the largest groups to date, with 21 fellows. Read more »

GE Aviation Delves into Advanced Materials at the ALS

Developing ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) to replace the metal alloys traditionally used in jet engines has been a goal for the aviation industry for decades. For more than a year, GE Aviation has used the tomography capabilities at ALS Beamline 8.3.2 to gain insight into their CMC materials, guiding their engineering and design efforts. Read more »PPT-icon-35

Isvar Cordova, Physicist Postdoctoral Researcher

Isvar Cordova has been at the ALS since February 2016, working as a postdoc at Beamline 11.0.1, the resonant soft x-ray scattering beamline, developing in-situ capabilities for material research. We sat down with him to talk about his background and what he’s enjoying about his experience at the ALS. Read more »

2017 ALS Director’s Address

I want to thank everyone in the ALS family for an extremely productive and exciting 2016, and convey my expectations for our continuing successes in 2017. We have much to be proud of as we continue to build our capabilities and collaborations, increase the impact of our scientific outputs, and expand our ability to enable important science for users in so many areas of research and development. Read more »

New Multiferroic Material for Ultralow-Power Electronics

Scientists paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, a major step in the development of ultralow-power microprocessors, storage devices, and next-generation electronics. Read more »PPT-icon-35 PDF-icon-35

Fernando Sannibale, Division Deputy for Accelerator Operations and Development 

Fernando Sannibale, previously the principal investigator of the Advanced Photoinjector Experiment (APEX) at LBNL, has recently taken on a new role as leader of the ongoing ALS Accelerator Physics program in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division and will also serve as the ALS Division Deputy for Accelerator Operations and Development. We recently sat down with Sannibale to talk about his years at the ALS and what he hopes to accomplish in his new role. Read more »

Industrial-Academic Collaboration Gives Nanoscale Insight into Batteries

An industrial collaboration between Hummingbird Scientific and a team of researchers from the ALS, SLAC, Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and other institutions has resulted in a new x-ray microscopy platform that gives scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium-ion battery particles in real time as they charge and discharge. Insights obtained from the imaging platform have already provided surprising new insights and could help researchers improve batteries for electric vehicles as well as smart phones, laptops, and other devices. Read more »PPT-icon-35