ALSNews is a biweekly electronic newsletter to keep users and other interested parties informed about developments at the Advanced Light Source, a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. We welcome suggestions for topics and content.
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The ALS is in a planned shutdown for equipment installation and maintenance. Shutdown activities are on schedule and going well. All the major equipment installations scheduled for this shutdown have been made. The finishing touches, such as flex band installations around new straight sections, are underway. For modern high-tech materials, the atomic geometries of surfaces and interfaces are frequently a key factor in performance, but measuring these geometries directly is not a simple matter.