After spending a year at the ALS, our doctoral fellows in residence are preparing to return to their home institutions. Before leaving, they gave lightning talks on the work they did at the beamlines and what else they did in the Bay Area. Read more »
Features
LAAAMP Brings International Researchers to the Advanced Light Source
This summer, the ALS hosted researchers from Mexico and Egypt as part of LAAAMP—Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia and Middle East Project. Their studies on solar cells and mummy bones exemplify the benefit of increasing access to synchrotron-enabled research. Read more »
Microelectronics Town Hall Looks Beyond Moore’s Law
On August 16, Berkeley Lab hosted a town hall on future research and collaboration opportunities in microelectronics—a deceptively simple catchword that encompasses the full range of integrated developments needed to push beyond Moore’s Law. Eli Rotenberg gave one of several short talks about how the ALS fits into this effort. Read more »
ALS Provides Immersive Experience for Summer Interns
High school and undergraduate students don’t usually get a lot of real-world programming and hardware development experience, especially not with things like neural networks and synchrotron light source beamline components. Eighteen students got thrown into the deep end with these topics during their internships at the ALS. Read more »
Study Concludes Glassy Menagerie of Particles in Beach Sands Near Hiroshima is Fallout Debris from A-Bomb Blast
Mario Wannier was methodically sorting through particles in samples of beach sand from Japan’s Motoujina Peninsula when he spotted something unexpected: a number of tiny, glassy spheres and other unusual objects. X-ray studies have provided evidence that they are A-bomb fallout from the destroyed city of Hiroshima. Read more »
A New Twist in Soft X-Ray Beams
Visible-light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been used in applications ranging from communications and imaging to particle manipulation. Now, researchers have generated high-quality OAM beams in the soft x-ray regime, with intriguing possibilities for future use at high-coherence, diffraction-limited light sources. Read more »
ALS Tips Hat to 10 Years of Top-Off
In February, the ALS marked the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest upgrades in its history: the transition to “top-off mode,” which took place on February 11, 2009. To celebrate, the ALS community gathered for ring-shaped pastries (i.e., donuts) and coffee (topping off allowed). Brief remarks were given by Steve Kevan and Dave Robin. Read more »
Forum Reinforces ALS Links to Water-Energy Nexus
About 80 Berkeley Lab scientists gathered at the ALS last week for an “ALS Water-Energy Outreach Forum” to discuss the challenges and opportunities arising from a growing focus on the nexus between water and energy—two resources essential to human populations—and to explore how the ALS can help address key questions in the field. Read more »
ALS Hosts 6th International Diffraction-Limited Storage Ring Workshop
Approximately 160 scientists from synchrotron facilities all over the world gathered at Berkeley Lab last fall for the 6th International Diffraction-Limited Storage Ring Workshop. Event participants discussed both the technical challenges and new research opportunities at next-generation x-ray facilities enabled by multibend achromat lattices. Read more »
ALSNews Reaches the Big 4-0-0!
Congratulations to ALSNews for reaching Volume 400! In 24 years, the ALSNews distribution list has grown from a few hundred subscribers to over 6300 in 49 countries. It has gone through 4 designs and 8 managing editors. Here we provide a short survey for your feedback and describe a bit about how it all began. Read more »
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