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Skyrmions on the rise – new 2D material advances low-power computing

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has discovered a new ultrathin material with exotic magnetic features called skyrmions. The new material could enable the next generation of tiny, fast, energy-efficient electronic devices.

Journal: Science Advances

Achieving climate goals will require transformational changes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

The third and final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Sixth Assessment Report calls for aggressive and comprehensive actions if we are to achieve net zero emissions by mid-century. It finds we still need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically, beyond what governments have pledged, and that this emissions gap is exacerbated by implementation gaps despite the mitigation efforts underway.

Funder: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

A laser-powered upgrade to cancer treatment

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Biologists and particle accelerator physicists have teamed up to develop more effective and more accessible cancer treatments using laser-powered plasma ion beams.

Journal: Scientific Reports

In a first, researchers image the full structure of trapped excitons

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers announced today that they have imaged the exciton’s electron and hole to produce the first full picture of this elusive quasiparticle, and showed how excitons can be trapped in dense, stable arrays. The results have important implications for the development of future technologies and the quest to understand excitons better.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Q&A: From particle beams to cancer treatment – fundamental research that affects everyday life

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory study some of the most fundamental questions about our universe: What are the properties of elementary particles? What drives the expansion of the universe? But the tools they use can lead to technologies that benefit everyday life.

How x-rays can make better batteries

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this Q&A, ALS senior staff scientist David Shapiro and Stanford materials science professor William Chueh share how their pioneering X-ray techniques can help researchers understand how battery materials work in real time at the atomic scale.

GISMo lab's innovative plan to make electricity cheaper, greener and more reliable

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new gizmo from SLAC’s GISMo lab automatically adjusts a home’s power use to save energy, lower utility bills and make the electric grid more reliable.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Stronger materials could bloom with new images of plastic flow

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured high-resolution images of a tiny aluminum single-crystal sample as it transitioned from elastic to plastic state.

Journal: Nature Communications

Safely studying dangerous infections just got a lot easier

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Soft X-ray tomography – a way to take gorgeously high-resolution, 3D images of cells – can help us study infections without risk of contamination. And now, the whole process takes just a fraction of the time and preparation required by other imaging methods.

Open sourced control hardware for quantum computers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed at Berkeley Lab has designed an electronics control system for superconducting qubits—QubiC for short—that is customizable and modular and is inspired by particle accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab's ATAP division. QubiC's hardware and software have been open sourced so that the broader QIS community can contribute to it / improve it.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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