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November 2011. |
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Research at SOLEIL
Imaging and Nano-ARPES, an innovative and powerful tool for the nanosciences
In recent decades we have witnessed exponential advances in the different areas of the new nanotechnologies. These advances, seen particularly in nanoelectronics, nanomagnetism and nanochemistry, among others, affect almost every aspect of our lives… Read more (295.22 KB)
Huntington's disease, study on SMIS beamline by IR micro-spectroscopy
Huntington’s disease is characterized by the formation of protein aggregates (inclusions) in certain regions of the brain. Infrared micro-spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation is an ideal tool to study the secondary structure of aggregated proteins… Read more (252.99 KB)
Know how
The future long beamlines of SOLEIL
The NANOSCOPIUM and NANOTOMOGRAPHY “long” beamlines will be dedicated to state of the art hard X-ray nano-imaging techniques. A 2,200 m2 extension to the SOLEIL experiment hall will be built during 2012, to accommodate these beamlines. Read more (84 KB)
Interview of Alain Lestrade, head of the Alignment/Metrology group
Initially a surveyor, Alain Lestrade joined the world of synchrotrons in the early 90s, at the ESRF, and then integrated into the SOLEIL project in 2002. Read more (88.43 KB)
New optics for the SOLEIL Storage ring
The nominal optics of the SOLEIL storage ring has been optimized to satisfy users in terms of electron beam size at «source» points, while guaranteeing an excellent performance with regard to the operation of the machine. Read more (207.59 KB)
FOCUS ON: Chemistry in the light
Display of the possibilities on offer now and in the future on the SOLEIL beamlines, and examples of results obtained on: AILES (p15), DESIRS (p16), SIRIUS(p17), SAMBA (p18), SWING (p18-19) et CRISTAL (p19). Read more (702.17 KB)
Innovations
XPAD detectors: from the laboratory to industrialization
Hybrid pixel detectors will mark the end of the CCD camera era in some experiments using synchrotron radiation. The XPAD technology, born of a collaboration which involved Soleil, is one example. Its development led in 2010 to the birth of imXPAD, a Marseille startup dedicated to its commercialization. Read more (100.81 KB)
Du SOLEIL dans notre vie
New generation of transistors
Chips everywhere! In computers, mobile phones, bank cards, game consoles... integrated circuits or “chips” are in everything. On the CASSIOPEE beamline a material is being studied whose properties suggest its use in a wide range of applications far beyond those of conventional transistors. Read more (182.38 KB)