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Bobby Besuner to Retire After an Engineering Career Dedicated to Advancing Physics and Cosmology

Bobby Besuner speaks with National Optical Astronomy Observatory Engineer Patrick Dunlop at Kitt Peak, the eventual installation site for DESI (April 2014).

Made in Berkeley Lab: Revealing the Secret Miniature World of Wire Bonding

Detailed view of delicate wire bonding work connecting an image sensor and two custom readout chips for the VeryFastCCD project.

Revolutionizing High-Power Lasers: ATAP and Engineering Divisions Launch the Berkeley Advanced Laser Group

Meet Iris, Berkeley Lab's prototype fiber-positioning robot for Spec-S5

Made in Berkeley Lab: Winding a Novel Closed-Loop Coil Magnet Structure

A completed closed-loop coil showing a continuous strand of Nb-Ti superconducting wire wound around a hexagonal mandrel.

Meet Director’s Award Recipient, Runaround Champion, and Mechanical Engineer Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle with a magnet for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project.

Super Cold and Super Tiny: the Electronics Behind the LEGEND-1000 Physics Detector

Magnified view of a rectangular microchip with fine wires bonded around its edges for electrical connections.

Made in Berkeley Lab: Reverse-Engineering Discontinued Parts

A close up of four brand-new powder-coated chiller end bells sit on a black background.

Discovery to Delivery: 3Q4 with Senajith “Seno” Rekawa

Seno Rekawa shown with highlighted quote: "Scientists come to me with novel research ideas and expect me to build instruments that no one else in the world has built. These can range from an ultra-high-precision extreme ultraviolet lithography system to a simple optical metrology tool for advanced microelectronic research."

Final Magnet for the LHC's High-Luminosity Upgrade Leaves Berkeley Lab

Made in Berkeley Lab: elegant arcs for superconducting magnets

A computer numerical control (CNC) machine in Berkeley Lab Engineering’s Building 77 traces the intricate groove pattern for a superconducting cable into an aluminum-bronze mandrel.

Engineering Division pilots equipment protection interlock system for Berkeley Lab user endstations

Ernesto Paiser, ALS Instrument Software Support Group Lead, pictured with the new no-code interlock system.

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