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CHESS-U accelerator design: From two beams to one
When CESR first came online in 1979, the accelerator was optimized for high-energy physics (HEP), with a design based on the "FODO" concept: one unit cell was comprised of a horizontally-focusing quadrupole, a dipole, a vertically-focusing quadrupole, and another dipole.
Xraise’s Tinker Cart delivers delight to neighboring elementary schools
Feedback gathered by the Xraise staff from local elementary school teachers during the past year has indicated that more educators would facilitate open-ended engineering projects in their classrooms if they were supplied with the materials needed to conduct such activities.
Engineering next-generation semiconductor devices with the help of grazing incidence reciprocal space mapping at G2
With continued scaling of nanostructures used in semiconductor devices at sub-10 nm technology nodes, development of new conformal deposition and annealing processes, and testing of their compatibility with high mobility transistor channel materials, such as III-V and Germanium (Ge), are required.
Run, run, as fast as you can – laser spike annealing of block copolymer films
Thermal annealing is a standard method for bringing block copolymer films into their thermal equilibrium morphology.
Particle physics detector makes way for upgrade
On September 6th, the solenoid from the CLEO detector was removed from the area known as L-Zero at Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, the former interaction point of electron and positron colliding beams.
What does Summer mean for the Lending Library?
It is Summer, which means school is out! Teachers are not really requesting equipment from the Lending Library, so what goes on with this program during the summer months?
“Hands-on” CHESS workshop on x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) pays off!
A new CHESS user group, attending our 1st XES User Meeting workshop in June 2015, has published results from data collected during that visit!
Structural insight into HIV reverse transcriptase
Eddy Arnold of Rutgers University has been studying the HIV virus for a long time. A frequent user of CHESS, Arnold has been using the technique of X-ray crystallography to investigate the structure of HIV proteins and learn more about inhibitors of those proteins which might lead to drugs to fight AIDS. His efforts have been reported here several times (1, 2).