Did you know scientists can make movies of atomic processes? #slacexplains

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/research/slac-science-explained/xfels

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory runs a linear particle accelerator.

Today, scientists and engineers at SLAC use the accelerator to generate a very powerful X-ray laser. Such a refined X-ray light beam is used to penetrate deep into matter at the molecular and atomic level, and allows scientists to produce "movies" of the behavior of these atoms and molecules. Generally it's very difficult to look at atoms and see how they behave and that's why SLAC built this X-ray laser.
Technically it's called an X-ray Free Electron Laser, or XFEL.

For example, a team of scientists has been studying photosynthesis, a process that could be replicated to capture C02 and generate hydrogen. And really only an XFEL allows us to observe photosynthesis at the atomic level and at the temperature and ultrafast speed it occurs in nature.

To understand more about how the XFEL at SLAC functions and is able to achieve such feats, we made an explainer video in our previous reel (find it on our YouTube channel—link in bio).

Are you curious about SLAC's XFEL, one of the most powerful X-ray laser built for scientific research on earth?

Produced by Olivier Bonin. Voice-over by Sam Soon.

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