X-Ray Light Sources
The Basic Energy Sciences program supports the following X-Ray Light Source national scientific user facilities:
The Basic Energy Sciences program supports the following X-Ray Light Source national scientific user facilities:
The ALS is one of the world's brightest sources of high-quality, reliable vacuum-ultraviolet light and soft X-rays, enabling a wide variety of scientific disciplines.
The APS is one of only four third-generation, hard x-ray synchrotron radiation light sources in the world, which has brought about new discoveries in a wide range of scientific fields.
The LCLS is the world’s first hard x-ray free electron laser facility capable of producing x-rays that are both very intense and clumped into ultrafast pulses.
The NSLS-II is a state-of-the-art synchrotron light source which allows for scientists to probe the fundamental properties of matter, paving the way to new scientific discoveries and innovations.
The SSRL produces intense x-rays as a resource for researchers to study our world at the atomic and molecular level, allowing for research and advances in energy production, environmental remediation, nanotechnology, new materials and medicine.