User Facilities at a Glance | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
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User Facilities at a Glance
Each Office of Science user facility exists through investment by a program “owner” – the
Office of Science program
that provides funds through congressional appropriations for construction and operations. The decision to invest in a user facility emerges through long term strategic planning with the scientific community to identify the research tools that will deliver the greatest scientific impact to advance the DOE mission.
Each user facility represents a substantial commitment on the part of its sponsoring program, which provides oversight and works closely with the facility management to maximize scientific impact and productivity.
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
The ALCF provides the computational science community with a world-class computing capability dedicated to breakthrough science and engineering.
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
The ALS is one of the world's brightest sources of high-quality, reliable vacuum-ultraviolet light and soft X-rays, enabling a wide variety of scientific disciplines.
Advanced Photon Source (APS)
The APS is one of only four third-generation, hard x-ray synchrotron radiation light sources in the world, which has brought about new discoveries in a wide range of scientific fields.
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility
ARM is a multi-platform scientific user facility with instruments at fixed and varying locations around the globe for obtaining continuous field measurements of atmospheric data.
Accelerator Test Facility (ATF)
The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) provides users with high power lasers synchronized with high brightness electron beams, providing a testbed for exploring the science of particle acceleration and radiation generation, and for developing new accelerator technologies.
Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS)
ATLAS is a leading facility for nuclear structure research in the United States providing a wide range of beams for nuclear reaction and structure research to a large community of users from the US and abroad.
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)
CEBAF is a world-leading facility in the experimental study of hadronic matter, used by scientists to probe the interior of the nucleus to study its properties.
Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
The CFN is one of the five Nanoscale Science Research Centers created by the Department of Energy to investigate, understand, and exploit the unique characteristics of materials and phenomena at the nanoscale.
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
The CINT focuses on exploring the path from scientific discovery to the integration of nanostructures into the micro and macro-worlds.
Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)
The CNM focuses on research in advanced materials, complex oxides, nanophotonics, and bio-inorganic hybrids.
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
The CNMS integrates nanoscale science research with neutron science, synthesis science, and theory/modeling/stimulation.
DIII-D National Fusion Facility (DIII-D)
DIII-D, the largest magnetic fusion user facility in the U.S., is a tokamak confinement device with significant engineering flexibility to explore the optimization of the advanced tokamak approach to fusion energy production.
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User Facilities at a Glance | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
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User Facilities at a Glance
Each Office of Science user facility exists through investment by a program “owner” – the
Office of Science program
that provides funds through congressional appropriations for construction and operations. The decision to invest in a user facility emerges through long term strategic planning with the scientific community to identify the research tools that will deliver the greatest scientific impact to advance the DOE mission.
Each user facility represents a substantial commitment on the part of its sponsoring program, which provides oversight and works closely with the facility management to maximize scientific impact and productivity.
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
The ALCF provides the computational science community with a world-class computing capability dedicated to breakthrough science and engineering.
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
The ALS is one of the world's brightest sources of high-quality, reliable vacuum-ultraviolet light and soft X-rays, enabling a wide variety of scientific disciplines.
Advanced Photon Source (APS)
The APS is one of only four third-generation, hard x-ray synchrotron radiation light sources in the world, which has brought about new discoveries in a wide range of scientific fields.
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility
ARM is a multi-platform scientific user facility with instruments at fixed and varying locations around the globe for obtaining continuous field measurements of atmospheric data.
Accelerator Test Facility (ATF)
The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) provides users with high power lasers synchronized with high brightness electron beams, providing a testbed for exploring the science of particle acceleration and radiation generation, and for developing new accelerator technologies.
Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS)
ATLAS is a leading facility for nuclear structure research in the United States providing a wide range of beams for nuclear reaction and structure research to a large community of users from the US and abroad.
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)
CEBAF is a world-leading facility in the experimental study of hadronic matter, used by scientists to probe the interior of the nucleus to study its properties.
Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
The CFN is one of the five Nanoscale Science Research Centers created by the Department of Energy to investigate, understand, and exploit the unique characteristics of materials and phenomena at the nanoscale.
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
The CINT focuses on exploring the path from scientific discovery to the integration of nanostructures into the micro and macro-worlds.
Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)
The CNM focuses on research in advanced materials, complex oxides, nanophotonics, and bio-inorganic hybrids.
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
The CNMS integrates nanoscale science research with neutron science, synthesis science, and theory/modeling/stimulation.
DIII-D National Fusion Facility (DIII-D)
DIII-D, the largest magnetic fusion user facility in the U.S., is a tokamak confinement device with significant engineering flexibility to explore the optimization of the advanced tokamak approach to fusion energy production.
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