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The bus will pick up the participants at the TGV station of Massy-Palaiseau, next to the RER B station.
Departure Thursday, June 24th at 09:30 AM (sharp). Please click here.
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Over the last 5 years, the possibilities of combining spectroscopic techniques, such as Raman and UVvis absorption, have grown considerably, due to the evolution of the instrumentation which enables one to use spectrometers of smaller sizes using fiber optics with performances equivalent to those of previous generations. Synchrotron studies using this kind of combined techniques develop more and more over the different synchrotrons centres, ESRF, SLS, Soleil …) and for different characterisation techniques in the field of hard X-rays (Absorption X, Scattering and Diffraction). They have shown how much crucial these combinations are in order to understand the systems under such characterisation:
- by the gain of the complementary informations
- by getting rid of the artefacts induced by separate experiments
- by the easier understanding, of the processes occurring at fast rates
- by the detection of the X-ray beam damage
The combined techniques are developing in the Material sciences field as well as in the biological ones. Such combinations need technical adaptations around the sample and compromises need to be found due to the specific constraints of each technique.
This workshop will be the occasion of sharing our experience between beamline scientists and the user communities, who worked on such combined techniques. The objectives are in the first place to show what has been developed on the different synchrotron beamlines through oral and poster communications. Round tables will be organised as well in order to discuss the technical aspects on how to combine techniques efficiently. We also wish to present the capabilities of the spectroscopic techniques (Raman and IR) with an introduction given by two Soleil experts in these fields. Several sessions more specific will be devoted to catalysis, physics of materials under constraints, genesis of nanomaterials and biology.
This workshop follows the first one which was held in June 2008 at the ESRF/SNBL, called SNBL workshop on simultaneous Raman-X-ray diffraction/absorption studies for the in situ investigation of solid state transformations and reactions at non ambient conditions.
