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CHESS supports a wide variety of x-ray techniques, many of which require use of multiple sophisticated, highly-specialized software packages to form a data analysis “pipeline” to reduce and process the data generated here.

Anyone who has and peered inside a disassembled laptop computer knows there are a lot of electronic components packed inside the case.

Inner-shell x-ray emission (XES) and absorption (XAS) spectroscopies are complimentary methods. The first senses valence state structure of atoms in molecules and complexes, the second reports on lowest lying unoccupied states.

Last month, the basement of Newman Laboratory opened to transport a distinctive red pipe containing the Main Linac Cyromodule — a prototype designed to accelerate particles with unparalleled energy efficiency — across campus.

Studding the lipid membrane of every cell are millions of integral membrane proteins – molecules that play crucial roles in cell signaling, adhesion and other life processes, and become the targets for half of today’s pharmaceutical drugs.

These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.

When we heat up something, we usually expect it to come out less ordered, e.g. ice turns to water. On cooling, order returns: water crystallizes to ice.

The Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate recognized CHESS users Dr. TJ Turner and Dr. Paul Shade with the directorate’s most prestigious Charles J. Cleary Scientific Award for outstanding in-house research.