[photo: Surface-relaxed structure of dolomite]

Facility Photos


The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is a national synchrotron x-ray research facility that provides the brightest x-ray beams in the Western Hemisphere to more than 5,000 scientists worldwide.

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers microsecond proton pulses to a steel target through a process called spallation. Neutrons are then directed toward state-of-the-art instruments, such as VISION vibrational spectrometer, that provide a variety of capabilities to researchers.

The NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Laboratory
at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory  is the world’s fastest with 1.1 exaflops of performance. The system is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second.