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An important part of the mission of CHESS as a national user facility is its role training the next generation of students to fill roles in the varied fields in science, technology, engineering and math – the so-called STEM fields. 

Synchrotron-based X-ray technique, called “supercrystallography”, takes the structural analysis of nanocrystal assembly to an unprecedented new height.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a non-invasive, non-destructive technique for elemental analysis utilized by scientists at CHESS and other institutions. 

Latest generation free-electron lasers (FEL) generate x-ray radiation by amplifying shot noise produced as electron pass through a very long undulator. 

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.

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. 

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.”

When building solar cells made from inorganic bulk heterojunctions (BHJ), donor and acceptor semiconducting materials are deposited from solution and phase separate.