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X-ray flourescence shines a light on earth science educators
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a non-invasive, non-destructive technique for elemental analysis utilized by scientists at CHESS and other institutions.
Collaboration on “self-seeding” optics for the SwissFEL X-ray source
Latest generation free-electron lasers (FEL) generate x-ray radiation by amplifying shot noise produced as electron pass through a very long undulator.
Summer down projects continue at Wilson Lab
Here are a few snapshots of our continued work here at Wilson Lab, as you may recall the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) occupied a small space down on the floor as you walked out to CHESS East.
NASA Early Career Faculty Award for CHESS user Joshua Choi
CHESS user Joshua Choi, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, won a prestigious NASA Early Career Faculty Award for his project “Lightweight and Flexible Metal Halide Perovskite Thin Films for High Temperature Solar Cells.”
CHESS announces new Users' Executive Committee members
John Smedley, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Kyle Lancaster, Cornell University were voted into the two open positions on the CHESS Users' Executive Committee during the June CHESS Users’ Meeting.
Impact of solvent and polymer additives on heterojunction solar cells
When building solar cells made from inorganic bulk heterojunctions (BHJ), donor and acceptor semiconducting materials are deposited from solution and phase separate.
CHESS joins the fun at SRI 2015
Among the very few spectacles typically missing from New York’s famous Times Square is a collection of several hundred of the world’s experts in synchrotron radiation.
CHESS User Profile: Katharine Silberstein, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Katharine (Katie) Silberstein is in her final year as a graduate student in the Abruña Electrochemistry Lab here at Cornell University.