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Workshop #3 recap: Synchrotron Resources for Future Investigations of Thin-Film Growth, Processing, and Characterization
Six summer science workshops at CHESS followed a most memorable Users’ Meeting on June 7th when our user community first heard the big news about plans to reconfigure the accelerator and beamlines to use only a single source of particles.
With Spiraling Light, SLAC X-ray Laser Offers New Glimpses of Molecules
New Delta Undulator Helps Scientists Reveal Fast Changes in Matter with Subatomic Detail
Creating a Brighter Future for CHESS – Users' Meeting 2016
The theme of this year's Users' Meeting, held June 7th at the Physical Sciences Building on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University, was "Creating a Brighter Future for CHESS, Users and Science".
Developing new high-energy x-ray capabilities at the A1 station
The user communities for high energy x-ray capabilities at the A2 and F2 stations have grown considerably in the past few years, easily saturating the beamtime available for powder diffraction, high-dynamic range and high resolution studies at A2 and multiple load-frame structural materials experiments at F2.
Xraise STEPS up their STEM internships
STEP, which stands for Science & Technology Entry Program, was first launched by the New York State Department of Education in 1986.
BioSAXS Essentials 6 workshop bigger, better than ever
The Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (MacCHESS) held its sixth highly successfully BioSAXS Essentials workshop from May 13th to 16th, 2016.
Grape bud imaging
Al Kovaleski, PhD student in the Graduate Field of Horticulture, School of Integrative Plant Science, used X-ray phase contrast imaging to create this video of a grapevine bud.
Vanadium Kβ X-ray emission spectroscopy detects changes in valence electronic structure and bonding
Mechanistic studies of homo- and heterogeneous, as well as biological catalysis, often seek to understand changes in chemical speciation during turnover.