{"id":2842,"date":"2021-04-17T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2021-04-22T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:25:25","slug":"als-u-cd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2021\/04\/17\/als-u-cd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ALS-U CD-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upgrade of the Advanced Light Source (<a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2017\/08\/20\/als-u\/\">ALS-U<\/a>), the project I&#8217;m working on, has received CD-2 approval from the US Department of Energy, meaning that we are gearing up towards final design and will soon start ordering tons of magnets and mirrors, and transform our beloved light source into a laser-like source of x-rays, to enable the next generation in batteries, solar cells, computers and medicines (among many other things:)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9hLwUaLDgP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/04\/16\/advanced-light-source-upgrade-project-achieves-major-milestone\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/04\/16\/advanced-light-source-upgrade-project-achieves-major-milestone\/', 'Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Achieves Major Milestone']);\" >Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Achieves Major Milestone<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cAdvanced Light Source Upgrade Project Achieves Major Milestone\u201d \u2014 Berkeley Lab News Center\" src=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/04\/16\/advanced-light-source-upgrade-project-achieves-major-milestone\/embed\/#?secret=Ddj3fGnyPg#?secret=9hLwUaLDgP\" data-secret=\"9hLwUaLDgP\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>Here&#8217;s a few recent highlights from the research enabled by the little synchrotron that could:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/als.lbl.gov\/jennifer-doudna-and-the-nobel-prize-the-advanced-light-source-perspective\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/als.lbl.gov\/jennifer-doudna-and-the-nobel-prize-the-advanced-light-source-perspective\/', 'Jennifer Doudna and the Nobel Prize: The Advanced Light Source Perspective']);\" >Jennifer Doudna and the Nobel Prize: The Advanced Light Source Perspective<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2020\/04\/15\/staff-at-berkeley-labs-x-ray-facility-mobilize-to-support-covid-19-related-research\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2020\/04\/15\/staff-at-berkeley-labs-x-ray-facility-mobilize-to-support-covid-19-related-research\/', 'Staff at Berkeley Lab\u2019s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research']);\" >Staff at Berkeley Lab\u2019s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/03\/03\/a-cosmic-approach-to-nanoscale-science\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/03\/03\/a-cosmic-approach-to-nanoscale-science\/', 'A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science']);\" >A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2020\/07\/20\/battery-electric-planes-cars\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2020\/07\/20\/battery-electric-planes-cars\/', 'Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range Electric Cars']);\" >Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range Electric Cars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/01\/14\/1-atom-deep-look-water-splitting-catalyst\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/01\/14\/1-atom-deep-look-water-splitting-catalyst\/', 'A 1-Atom-Deep Look at a Water-Splitting Catalyst']);\" >A 1-Atom-Deep Look at a Water-Splitting Catalyst<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/01\/06\/x-ray-view-intact-cells\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/01\/06\/x-ray-view-intact-cells\/', 'News Center Unique X-Ray Microscope Reveals Dazzling 3D Cell Images']);\" >News Center Unique X-Ray Microscope Reveals Dazzling 3D Cell Images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/04\/08\/spintronics-tech-a-hopfion-away\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2021\/04\/08\/spintronics-tech-a-hopfion-away\/', 'The Spintronics Technology Revolution Could Be Just a Hopfion Away']);\" >The Spintronics Technology Revolution Could Be Just a Hopfion Away<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2850\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alsuec_doudna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2850\" class=\" wp-image-2850\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alsuec_doudna-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alsuec_doudna-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alsuec_doudna-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alsuec_doudna-768x508.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alsuec_doudna.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Doudna, chair of the Advanced Light Source Users&#8217; Executive Committee (around 2001)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>A last bit of research by my colleague Alex Fra\u00f1\u00f3 (and friend from the <a href=\"http:\/\/alsuec.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/alsuec.org\/', 'ALS Users&#8217; Executive Committee']);\" >ALS Users&#8217; Executive Committee<\/a>) gets my neurons randomly firing up at night: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2021\/01\/26\/rethinking-how-electrons-interact-superconducting-quantum-materials\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2021\/01\/26\/rethinking-how-electrons-interact-superconducting-quantum-materials', 'Rethinking the fundamental way electrons interact in superconducting quantum materials']);\" >Rethinking the fundamental way electrons interact in superconducting quantum materials<\/a>. It progressively appear that skyrmions and superconductivity may be intimately related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/graphenes-new-twist-reveals-superconductivitys-secrets-20210316\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/graphenes-new-twist-reveals-superconductivitys-secrets-20210316\/', 'A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity\u2019s Secrets']);\" >A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity\u2019s Secrets<\/a> (Quanta magazine.) If this is true, we&#8217;re on the verge of a major shift: we could potentially engineer interfaces to create <a href=\"https:\/\/als.lbl.gov\/electric-dipoles-form-chiral-skyrmions\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/als.lbl.gov\/electric-dipoles-form-chiral-skyrmions\/', 'room temperature']);\" >room temperature<\/a> superconductivity. That would be a revolution: we could transfer power from a place to another with no loss (electrical line losses are about 50%) and we could democratize magnetic levitation for transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upgrade of the Advanced Light Source (ALS-U), the project I&#8217;m working on, has received CD-2 approval from the US Department of Energy, meaning that we are gearing up towards final design and will soon start ordering tons of magnets and mirrors, and transform our beloved light source into a laser-like source of x-rays, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-projects","category-science","category-science-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}