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The major preoccupation of the electronics industry is to reduce the size of its components. However, the miniaturization of conventional manufacturing techniques for transistors, the basic (...)

Timm Weitkamp is the scientist in charge of NANOTOMOGRAPHY, one of two long SOLEIL beamlines, with NANOSCOPIUM, dedicated to cutting-edge nano-imaging using hard X-rays. Timm has developed a new (...)

LUNEX5 (free electron Laser Using a New accelerator for the Exploitation of X-ray radiation of 5th generation), a new advanced Free-Electron Laser (FEL) project proposed by a consortium of (...)

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 (...)

Research involving the SOLEIL SEXTANTS beamline team together with researchers at UPMC, Université d'Orsay and the Italian synchrotron ELETTRA, show the potential of using linearly polarized X-rays (...)

Will it soon be possible not to dread climbing on the scales after eating French fries? Potato chips that are crispy and tasty but not greasy ... a dream! A dream that the research group headed by (...)

Combining photoemission spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy and ab initio calculations allowed to determine the structural model of the alkali-metal/Si(111):B interface.

Best wishes 2012

November 2011. The construction of the NANOSCOPIUM beamline, which began in mid-October, will considerably increase our experimental capabilities in terms of x-ray imaging, reaching a resolution of 30 (...)

November 2011. The construction of the NANOSCOPIUM beamline, which began in mid-October, will considerably increase our experimental capabilities in terms of x-ray imaging, reaching a resolution of 30 (...)

The machine schedule for 2012 is now available. Altogether, 5328h will be dedicated to the beamlines.

On February 1-2, 2011, the teams working on the infrared (IR) beamlines at SLS and SOLEIL synchrotrons co-organizeda workshop dedicated to IR spectro-microscopy and its applications.