The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

Another discovery from research at the Advanced Photon Source

The recent application of an advanced technique at the Advanced Photon Source has helped reveal the biological cofactor that enables the conversion of nitrogen to bioavailable ammonia.

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New research by users of the Advanced Photon Source

A new study uncovered the long-sought-after, 3-D structure of a toxin primarily responsible for devastating Clostridium difficile infection

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Research with impact from the Advanced Photon Source

Focusing on the why and how of capacity fade in promising Li-ion battery materials.

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Another discovery from research at the Advanced Photon Source

For the price of some pretty fireworks, manufacturers will gain a new confidence in the reliability and durability of their laser-processed product

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Another discovery from research at the Advanced Photon Source

Researchers have pioneered cutting-edge methods to study the formation of calcium carbonate in saline water.

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Press Release
A Celestial Convergence: The Apollo 11 Anniversary and a New Moon Rock Study at the APS
Nearly 50 years after the last lunar mission, some of the original materials brought back to Earth will soon land at the GSECARS x-ray beamlines at the U.S. Department of Energy’s APS, allowing an unprecedented look at samples unsullied by Earth’s atmosphere.
Press Release
A Sharper Focus: New Computational Technique Resolves Compressed X-ray Data
With the right tools, scientists can have Superman-like X-ray vision that reveals hidden features buried within objects — but it’s highly complicated. The Advanced Photon Source gives scientists access to highly penetrating X-rays that can illuminate — at the atomic level — materials contained deep within other structures.
APS/User News
2019 APS/IIT XAFS Summer School
The 2019 APS/IIT XAFS Summer School was successfully held July 7-12, 2019. The school takes place annually at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s main campus in Chicago, Illinois, and the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
APS/User News
AFRL Experts Receive STAR Team Award for Research at the APS and CHESS
Four members from the Metals Branch at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) were designated as an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) STAR Team for the years 2019-2021 based upon experiments conducted at the Advanced Photon Source and at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source at Cornell University.

The Advanced Photon Source delivers world-class science and technology by operating an outstanding synchrotron radiation research facility accessible to a broad spectrum of researchers in order to further the us doe office of science mission to "...transform our understanding of nature and to advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States."

Argonne National Laboratory

National Scientific User Facilities

Propelling discovery

Argonne is home to five national user facilities, which enable scientific users from universities, national laboratories, industry and federal agencies to carry out experiments and pursue groundbreaking discoveries that would otherwise not be possible.

Advanced Photon Source

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory provides ultra-bright, high-energy storage ring-generated X-ray beams for research in almost all scientific disciplines.

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility provides supercomputing capabilities to the scientific and engineering community to advance fundamental discovery and understanding in a range of disciplines.

Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System

The prime national facility for nuclear structure research. The Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) is the world’s first superconducting linear accelerator for heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier.

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Research Facility – Southern Great Plains

ARM is the world’s premier ground-based observations facility advancing atmospheric research.

Center for Nanoscale Materials

The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory is a premier user facility providing expertise, instrumentation and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research.