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Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program FY 2009 LBNL-103E-2009 Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program FY 2009 March 2010 DISCLAIMER This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor The Regents of the University of California, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by its trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof, or The Regents of the University of California. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof or The Regents of the University of California. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer. Report on Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program FY 2009 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720 MARCH, 2010 Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 Table of Contents Introduction........................................................................................................................................................... ix Accelerator and Fusion Research Division......................................................................................................... 1 Fernando Sannibale Experimental Accelerator R&D Toward a Future Light Source ................................ 1 ............ John Corlett John Staples Russell Wells Alexander Zholents Thomas Schenkel Quantum Information Science with Integrated Color Centers in Diamond ................................................................................................ ................................2 ..... Csaba Toth Experimental Demonstration of a Laser-Plasma-Accelerator Carl Schroeder Driven Free-Electron Laser................................................................................................ 3 ....... William Fawley Kem Robinson Jean-Luc Vay Lorentz Compaction of Scales for Ultra-efficient Simulation of William Fawley Advance Accelerators (and other systems) ................................................................ 4 .............. Marco Venturini Emittance Manipulation and Beam Conditioning for FEL's................................ 5 ................... et al Weishi Wan High Brightness Photocathodes as Electron Sources for FELs ................................ 6 .............. Emanuele Pedersoli C. Michael Greaves Howard Padmore William Fawley FEL Concepts for Multiple Independent X-ray Beamlines ................................ 7 .................... Gregory Penn Alexander Zholents Advanced Light Source Division.......................................................................................................................... 8 Elke Arenholz Optimization of Flux Pinning in Type II Superconductor Based Soren Prestemon Magnets for Soft X-ray Scattering Applications ................................ ................................8 ..... YiDe Chuang Jinghua Guo Building In-situ Electronic Structure Study Capability with Photon-in/Photon-out Soft X-ray Spectroscopy ................................ ................................9 ...... Alexander Hexemer Soft X-Ray Scattering as a New Probe of Polymer Systems ................................ 10 .................. et al Howard Padmore High Quantum Yield Multi-Alkali Cathodes for psec Pulsed Electron Sources ................................................................................................ 11 ........................ Eli Rotenberg Improved Electron Detection System for Extreme Angle- Aaron Bostwick Resolved Photoemission Experiments................................................................ 12 ...................... David Shapiro Development of a Laser Goniometer for X-ray and Electron Yiqiong Zhao Diffraction Microscopy ................................................................................................ 13 ............. Valeriy Yashchuk Ultra-high Resolution Optics for Soft X-ray Inelastic Scattering................................ 14 ........... Kenneth Goldberg X-Ray Optical Metrology for Coherence-Preserving Adaptive Valeriy Yashchuk Optics................................................................................................................................ 15 .......... iii Chemical Sciences Division................................................................................................................................. 16 Hendrik Bluhm Chemical Reactions at Liquid/Vapor Interfaces Probed by Kevin Wilson Photoemission Spectroscopy................................................................ ................................16 ..... Oliver Gessner Probing Transient Molecular Entanglement Using Femtosecond High Resolution Delayed-Field Coincidence Imaging ................................ 17 ........................... Mary Gilles Development of In Situ Cells for Reactive Spectroscopic and Microscopic Studies ................................................................................................ 18 .................. Charles Harris Dynamics of Homogeneous Catalysis Reactions Investigated with Transient Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy ................................ 19 ....................... F. Dean Toste Metal Nitrosyl Complexes and Catalytic C-H Bond Functionalization ................................................................................................ 20 ....................... Computing Sciences (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Computational Research Divisions) .. 21 John Bell Structured, Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Multiphase Reactive Transport in Groundwater ................................................................ 21 ......................... John Bell Low Order Models for Simulation of Ballistic Charge Transport in Nanoscale Devices ................................................................................................ 22 ................ Jonathan Carter Enhancing the Effectiveness of Manycore Chip Technologies Leonid Oliker for High-End Computing ................................................................................................ 23 .......... John Shalf Deb Agarwal On-Demand Overlays for Scientific Applications................................ 24................................ ... Chin Guok Doron Rotem Energy Smart Disk-Based Mass Storage System ................................ ................................25 .... Ekow Otoo John Shalf Holistic Approach to Energy Efficient Computing Architecture................................ 26 ............ Leonid Oliker Michael Wehner Erich Strohmaier Reference Benchmarks for the Dwarfs (Algorithms)................................ 27 .............................. Kesheng Wu Managing Petascale Data with Emerging Computer Kamesh Madduri Architectures ................................................................................................ 28 .............................. Earth Sciences Division ....................................................................................................................................... 29 James Berryman Application of Adjoint Field Methods and Time-Reversal Data Processing to Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics, Seismics, and Ultrasonics................................................................................................ 29 ........................... Eoin Brodie Uncoverinig the Mechanistic Basis for Soil Microbial Community Response to Altered Precipitation Patterns ................................ 30 ......................... William Collins Integrated Earth Systems Climate Modeling and Analysis................................ 31 ..................... Christer Jansson Maximizing Photosynthetic Yield by Increasing Sink Strength................................ 32 ............. Janet Jansson Microbiomics of Complex Microbial Communities in Environmental Samples................................................................................................ 33 ............. Hui-Hai Liu Impact of Climate Change on Soil Water Dynamics in Arid Areas................................................................................................................................ 34 ........... iv Rohit Salve Identifying and Predicting Climate Change Impacts on the William Dietrich Land-Based Components of the Water Cycle................................................................ 35 .......... Stefan Finsterle Environmental Energy Technologies Division................................................................................................. 36 Vladimir Bazjanac Embedded Engineering, Construction Materials, and HVAC Components in Modular Energy Systems Simulation ................................ 36 ............................ Hugo Destaillats Understanding the Chemistry of Innovative Air Cleaning Technologies ...............................................................................................
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