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Big Data at the Atomic Scale: New Detector Reaches New Frontier in Speed

Photo - A technician works on the TEAM 0.5 microscope. The microscope has been upgraded with a superfast detector called the 4D Camera that can capture atomic-scale images in millionths-of-a-second increments. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

Nanocrystals Get Better When They Double Up With MOFs

Revealing Hidden Spin: Unlocking New Paths Toward High-Temperature Superconductors

Topological Matters: Toward a New Kind of Transistor

Photo - James Collins, a condensed matter researcher at Monash University in Australia, works on an experiment at Beamline 10.0.1, part of Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. (Credit: Marilyn Chung)

How Berkeley Lab is Advancing Microelectronics

Scientists Bring Polymers Into Atomic-Scale Focus

Image - This image shows a rendering (gray and pink) of the molecular structure of a peptoid polymer that was studied by a team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. The team’s success in imaging the atomic-scale structure of polymers could inform new designs for plastics, like those in the water bottles shown in the background. (Credit: Berkeley Lab, Charles Rondeau/PublicDomainPictures.net)

Berkeley Lab to Build an Advanced Quantum Computing Testbed

Photo - Irfan Siddiqi (left), director of the Lab’s AQT effort, and Jonathan Carter, AQT co-principal investigator, in front of a dilution refrigerator housing superconducting qubits. Siddiqi is a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Material Sciences Division and Carter is the deputy of science for Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area. (Credit: Peter DaSilva, Berkeley Lab)

Getting a Charge Out of MOFs

Scientists ‘Squeeze’ Nanocrystals in a Liquid Droplet Into a Solid-Like State – and Back Again

Image sequence - Nanocrystals within a liquid droplet that is injected into an oily solution (left) are chemically compressed into a solid-like “jammed” 2D state (middle) – which causes wrinkles to form on the surface of the droplet – and then revert to a relaxed, liquid-like state (right) in which the wrinkles smooth out. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

New Competition for MOFs: Scientists Make Stronger COFs

Image - At left is the simulated 3D molecular structure of a covalent organic framework, and at right is a modified framework. The yellow spheres in the structure on the left indicate a pore diameter of 2.9 nanometers, and the cyan spheres in the structure on the right indicate a pore diameter of 2.6 nanometers. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Non-Crystal Clarity: Scientists Find Ordered Magnetic Patterns in Disordered Magnetic Material

Image - In these rows of sequenced images, produced using X-ray-based techniques, the first column shows the demagnetized state of a multilayer material containing gadolinium and cobalt; the second column shows the residual magnetism in the same samples after an external, positive magnetic field was applied and then removed; and the last column shows the samples when a negative magnetic field is applied. The white arrows in the third row of images indicate gadolinium-rich regions in the material. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

There’s a New Microscope in Town: ThemIS, anyone?

Photo - The high-stability, high-resolution Thermo Fischer “ThemIS” transmission electron microscope. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)