Particles from Comet 81P/Wild 2 Viewed by ALS Microscopes
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A Comet Comes to the Advanced Light Source
At less than half the cost of a single round trip in the space shuttle, NASA’s $200-million, seven-year-long Stardust mission to comet Wild 2 was an economical excursion into space. Yet Stardust scored a remarkable number of firsts: Stardust returned the first solid samples from space since the 1970s moon missions; These were the first Read More …
Probing Organic Transistors with Infrared Beams
Beams of extremely bright, tightly focused infrared (IR) light generated at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) have been used to directly probe the electronic properties of nanometer-scale field-effect transistors made from organic polymers. The results of this unique study could help the future development of sensors, displays, and plastic electronic components for cell phones, Read More …