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PHOTON SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW – David Reis on behalf of Photon Science Faculty

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Stanford @ SLAC—SLAC @ Stanford

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Photon Science Research at SLAC

36 Faculty from diverse research disciplines

      • Applied Physics, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geosciences, Structural Biology, Bioengineering, ...
      • https://faculty.slac.stanford.edu/photon-science-faculty

Interdisciplinary research teams driving internationally leading research

  • Joint Research Institutes:

PULSE, SIMES, SUNCAT

  • Unique facilities:

SSRL, LCLS, ultrafast electron diffraction, cryo-electron microscopy

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Where are we

SLAC

Physics

and

Applied Physics

Stanford

Golf Course

Marguerite shuttles

  • Campus 🡨🡪 SLAC in 15 min.
  • ~7am–8:00pm every 40 min.

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  • Ultrafast and atomic-scale science – attoseconds to picoseconds, THz to x rays.
  • The science of energy-related materials.
  • Active programs in Materials, Structural Biology, Chemistry, Accelerator Physics
  • Ultrafast and high field x-ray laser-matter interactions; x-ray imaging; dynamics.
  • Atomic-scale design of catalysts for chemical transformations.

S2C2

  • Atomic resolution imaging of aperiodic biological specimens

Institutes and Facilities

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Unique X-ray and Ultrafast Facilities

LCLS X-ray Laser

v1.0 world’s first (2009)

Commissioning of $B expansion �well underway

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SSRL Synchrotron Radiation

33 experimental stations

~50 theses a year

Contact: Mike Dunne & Matthias Kling

mdunne@slac.Stanford.edu�mfkling@slac.stanford.edu

Contact: Paul McIntyre & Piero Pianetta

pcm1@Stanford.edu

pianetta@Stanford.edu

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SSRL: Powerful X-Rays to see the invisible

Powerful analytical methods to:

  • Characterize electronic & nuclear structure of materials & molecules

Diverse applications in:

  • Structural biology and biomedical technology
  • Energy Storage and microelectronics
  • Chemistry and catalysis
  • Materials synthesis and advanced manufacturing

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LCLS: Ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray Camera

Scientists use LCLS (e.g.) to

    • Follow the motion of energy and charge intrinsic to energy transformation and storage technology
    • Make movies of chemical transformations
    • Image biological molecules for structure-function analysis of biological phenomena

Imaging materials and molecules at the forefront of space and time

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Programs at PULSE

Contact: Director David Reis dreis@stanford.edu

Contact: David Reis, Director

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Programs at SIMES

Contact: David Reis, Director

Contact: Director Harold Hwang hyhwang@stanford.edu

  • Why do quantum electronic materials have unique emergent properties?

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  • What are pathways to convert photons into energy and to store energy chemically?

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  • How can we design and synthesize materials, both physically- and bio-inspired, that exhibit these amazing quantum and energy transformative properties?

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  • How can we best measure, probe, and simulate the ultrafast photonic and electronic processes that drive all of the above?

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SUNCAT research

Contact: David Reis, Director

  • Combine experiment & theory to under-stand chemical processes at interfaces.
  • Use electronic structure theory, kinetic modeling, and in-situ characterization to identify design principles for new catalysts
  • Develop methods for designing & synthesizing new catalysts.

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Contact: Director Tom Jaramillo jaramillo@stanford.edu

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Accelerator & Free Electron Laser Research

Contact: David Reis, Director

X-ray cavity concept

Developing new concepts for the brightest electron and x-ray beams

  • Attosecond XFEL’s
  • Regenerative X-ray amplifiers
  • ML/AI for accelerator control

Invent new techniques for ultrafast electron diffraction, radiation therapy and high power THz

Quantum Information Science: Mitigate decoherence and develop distributed quantum networks

Contact: Emilio Nanni nanni@slac.stanford.edu

Ago Marinelli Marinelli@slac.stanford.edu

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Photon Science Research at SLAC

…there is so much more.

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Come to tours, open offices/house

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Talk to students and post-docs

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Contact the faculty.

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If you need help ask.

dreis@stanford.edu

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Photon Science Faculty

Hodgson

Bucksbaum

Gaffney

Doniach

Solomon

Mao

Clemens

Shen

Brunger

Jaramillo

Hedman

Brown

Lindenberg

Byer

Devereaux

Reis

Hastings

Martinez

Kao

Hwang

Cui

Huang

Melosh

Raghu

Wakatsuki

Irwin

Lee

Holtkamp

Weis

Heinz

Dunne

Glenzer

Chiu

Pianetta

Lindenberg

Over half joint with campus departments

Nanni

Marinelli

Kling