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Use of the SOLEIL synchrotron source offers new perspectives, especially for micro-analysis and scanning imagery on a micro or submicrometric scale, made possible by the weak divergence of the beams, or for the monitoring of kinetics in real time thanks to the very high flux of photons down to the microsecond. But there are also techniques proper to synchrotron light, particularly those that necessitate a continuous spectral range such as X-absorption spectroscopy. Besides these performance benefits, the other interest in using synchrotron techniques lies in the possibility of coupling them between them, sometimes conducting simultaneous measurements, which would considerably increase the information able to be extracted from them.

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Both a Very Important Instrument serving the entire scientific community and a research laboratory developing its own themes, SOLEIL is an exceptional source of light for the exploration of living or inert matter over a very wide spectral range (1ev/80 kev)

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Access to beamlines is open to any scientist from anywhere in the world.  SOLEIL also welcomes researchers and engineers belonging to public research organizations and industrial users, and offers two types of access: free access for users who will publish their results (this is mandatory) and whose beam time requests will be submitted and evaluated by program committees.  Paying access is available for users who need rapid and confidential access and who will be exempt from program committee approval. And if don’t know which beamline is suited to your sample and problematic, contact us on webcom@synchrotron-soleil.fr. We will guide you in your initiative by helping you to identify the beamline's scientists who will be your best interlocutors.

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A synchrotron is a completely multidisciplinary resource that adds greatly to the evolution of fundamental knowledge.  This success is based on its remarkable properties: spectral continuity over a range extending from infrared to X-rays; weak divergence of emissions in the vertical plane; flux and luminescence billions of times greater than those of classical X-ray sources; polarization in the horizontal plane; temporal structure in pulses; and spatial and temporal cohesion.  However, the idea that only fundamental research is conducted in synchrotron beam centers is incorrect.  

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