With the radiation produced by the SOLEIL synchrotron, thousands of scientists from all over the globe are able to analyze all sorts of samples each year: nanomaterials, viruses, stardust, crystals, liquids, gas, samples of polluted soil, archaeological objects, and more.

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SOLEIL is managed as part of a French public company. The members of the SOLEIL synchrotron company are the CNRS and the CEA. The company is open to French and foreign partners. The region of Ile de France, the General Council of Essonne, and, more recently, the Central Region, have contributed to the project and are essential partners.

SOLEIL synchrotron, inaugurated on December 18, 2006, brings together the whole of the French and international scientific community. It required five years to bring this very high-tech equipment, installed on the Saclay plateau at the heart of a very high-level scientific environment, up to date. With the opening of its first 12 beamlines in 2007, researchers in various disciplines used the highest-performing techniques to gain access to the geometry of the material, as well as its chemical, magnetic, and electric properties.

Studies both forthcoming and in progress at the SOLEIL facility have resulted in a number of remarkable performances and innovations, resulting particularly—but not only—from the increase in the photon beam’s brilliance and stability.

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