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SOLEIL Highlights 2016

A decade of beams at SOLEIL: 2016 is a year of anniversaries, shared with an ever increasing number of users on our beamlines. Twenty eight beamlines have now received photons, since the X-ray beam reached the first experimental hutch of the ANATOMIX beamline in September. PUMA will complete the picture in 2017.
Developments are ongoing on the already operational beamlines: the femtoslicing project progresses on CRISTAL and TEMPO, and new microscopes have been installed on HERMES and SMIS...

 
Browse the electronic version of this collection of selected outstanding scientific results, obtained at SOLEIL in  2016.

Table of contents:

SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS

p. 18 - The smaller, the better: nanoARPES uncover topological behavior and quantum transport in nanowires
p. 20 - Transport properties at the atomic scale in conducting polymers: an ARPES view
p. 22 - Interlayer coupling in nickelate-manganite superlattices
p. 24 - Electronic properties of Van Der Waals GaSe/graphene heterostructure
p. 26 - In situ X-ray studies of the early stages of ZnO atomic layer deposition

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, NANOCHEMISTRY

p. 30 - Nominee for the best supporting role: the alumina surface for cleaning fuels
p. 32 - Cobalt doping in the spinel structure of magnetosome magnetite: first evidence from element-and site-specific XMCD analyses
p. 34 - Strongly modified water network in small diameter carbon nanotubes
p. 36 - Standing-wave X-ray fluorescence yields element distributions in biomolecular layers
p. 38 - The early stages of reactive particle nucleation from solution

BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

p. 42 - How histidine kinases control phosphatase and phosphotransferase reactions in bacterial signaling
p. 44 - Study of PB1-F2 β-aggregated structures revealed by synchrotron infrared and deep UV fluorescent microspectroscopy in influenza A virius-infected cells
p. 46 - Visualizing the ascent of sap in plants
p. 48 - Disordered calcium phase is involved in coccolith formation
p. 50 - Structural basis of potent antibody cross-neutralization between Zika and dengue viruses

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE

p. 54 - First photoelectron study of multiply-charged ions
p. 56 - Individual gas-phase cytosine conformers identified by slow photoelectron spectroscopy and explicitly correlated calculations
p. 58 - Dimethyl sulfide and the mystery of the missing sulfur in the interstellar mediums
p. 60 - What dictates handedness in flexible chiral molecules?
p. 62 - Hard X-rays induce a MUST ultrafast dissociation phenomenon

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF HARD CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES

p. 66 - Covalency, a new knob for tuning interfacial properties of matter
p. 68 - Strontium as a palaeoenvironmental proxy in fish otoliths: incorporation and stability
p. 70 - Mysteries of icosahedral quasicrystal atomic structure solved?
p. 72 - A chiral magnet unveiling its secrets under pressure
p. 74 - Structural stability of pyrochlore oxides

MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION

p. 78 - Extending hybrid pixel sensors detection capability with fast feedback loop
p. 80 - A unique tool for high resolution absorption spectroscopy in the VUV
p. 82 - A new, state-of-the-art detector for the mid infrared light
p. 84 - Optimized VUV synchrotron beamline design
p. 86 - MAGSTAT: a high vacuum gap-variable permanent rotary magnets quadrupole

ACCELERATORS AND ENGINEERING DIVISION

p. 90 - First application of genetic algorithm to optimize the SOLEIL storage ring beam synamics
p. 92 - A terahertz oscilloscope for direct observation of electron bunch synamics
p. 94 - Making SOLEIL canted in-vacuum undulators working seamlessly