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Associate Director Matthew Miller promoted to ASME Fellow
CHESS congratulates Professor Matthew Miller, the associate director of CHESS and the director of InSitµ@CHESS, for a recent promotion to the rank of fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Where did those electrons go? Decades-old mystery solved
The concept of “valence” – the ability of a particular atom to combine with other atoms by exchanging electrons – is one of the cornerstones of modern chemistry and solid-state physics.
2D organic-inorganic perovskites pave the way to novel low-cost solar cells
Organic-inorganic lead iodide perovskites are a much studied materials class that have reached solar cell efficiencies above 22% – on par with amorphous silicon – in only a few years after discovery.
RF transmitters move, make room for CBETA, CHESS-U
The RF transmitters, which power the superconducting cavities of CESR, are in the daunting process of relocating in order to accommodate the realization of CBETA and CHESS-U.
A photographic feast of physics
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so a hundred pictures must be worth some hundred-thousand words.
DNA to RNA - more ways than one
Information encoded in our genes controls how we live and grow. As part of this complex process, DNA is transcribed to RNA, one "letter" (nucleotide) at a time, by an enzyme called RNA polymerase (RNAP).
Cool, calm and collected
CESR team aims to lower beam emittance with Optical Stochastic Cooling
Mapping lattice strain in 4H-Silicon Carbide by synchrotron double-crystal topography
Just out in Journal of Electronic Materials is a novel strain mapping study of crystalline Silicon Carbide, a material widely used as a substrate for thin film electronics.