As an accelerator and floor operator, Haris’s work takes him all over the ALS. But, it is his photography hobby that has left an indelible mark on the ALS homepage. Let’s take a closer look at how he helps keep the ALS running and what brought him here in the first place. Read more »
Joint ALS/ALS-U Statement on Dark Time Delay
The ALS-U project recently made an extensive update to its project plan, resulting in a shift in the start of the one-year dark time from October 1, 2025, to June 22, 2026. The updated project schedule will allow the ALS to deliver more beamtime to users before the start of the dark time and further reduces the possibility that the ALS dark time will overlap with the APS’s ramp-up to full operations following their upgrade, currently in progress. Read more »
An Organic Transistor That Can Sense, Process, and Remember
Traditional AI hardware employs physically separated information sensing, processing, and memory architecture, a configuration that suffers from large energy and time overhead. Now, researchers have fabricated an organic transistor device that can simultaneously act as the sensor and processing core of a streamlined AI hardware system. Read more »
ALS Work on Roman Concrete Highlighted in German-French Documentary
A study on the remarkable durability of 2000-year old Roman concrete, by ALS user Marie Jackson with ALS beamline scientist Nobumichi Tamura, was recently highlighted in “Miracle Materials,” a science documentary produced by a German-French company, Gruppe 5, for airing on the Eurpean public service channel, ARTE. Read more »
Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria
Scientists engineered microbes to make the ingredients for recyclable plastics—replacing finite, polluting petrochemicals with sustainable alternatives. The new approach shows that renewable, recyclable plastics are not only possible, but also outperform those from petrochemicals. Read more »
Catching up with ASPIRES Interns from 2022 and 2023
The ASPIRES program is a 10-week paid internship matching undergraduate students from California State East Bay with mentors in Berkeley Lab’s Energy Sciences Area. We caught up with some of the ASPIRES interns from 2022 and 2023 to hear about their internship experience and what they’re working on! Read more »
Capturing the Spin Dynamics of a Complex Magnetic Material
Magnetic iron oxides (ferrites) are complex materials with broad electronic applications that are often driven by microwaves. Here, researchers have precisely measured the spin behavior of several distinct cations in a ferrite material under an applied microwave field, validating a longstanding assumption about magnetic oxide dynamics. Read more »
Greetings from New ALS Director Dimitri Argyriou
ALS Director Dimitri Argyriou, who arrived this month, is excited to join the vibrant community at our facility. He invites everyone to participate in this strongly collaborative environment and shape the future of the ALS. Read more »
Keeping Water-Treatment Membranes from Fouling Out
When you use a membrane for water treatment, junk builds up on the membrane surface—a process called fouling—which makes the treatment less efficient. In this work, researchers studied how membranes are fouled by interactions between natural organic matter and positively charged ions commonly found in water. Read more »
Beamline Optics and Modeling School (BLOMS) 2023
The ALS hosted its first Beamline Optics and Modeling School (BLOMS 2023), a three-day, hands-on workshop to teach the theory, methods, strategy, and tools used to design and model x-ray beamlines. Experts from four other light sources and one private company showed students the capabilities of modern, freely available tools for x-ray source and beamline modeling. Read more »
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