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For the first time, we are going beyond featuring an experiment conducted on one of the beamlines of SOLEIL: we invite you to follow along on the journey of a doctoral student, during the 3 years of (...)

This work was performed in an international collaboration between nearly 20 researchers, including both experimentalist and theoreticians, from 6 countries: France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, US and (...)

A team of researchers from IMPMC in collaboration with GALAXIES beamline at SOLEIL and D20 at ILL deliver new insight on the controversial magnetic state of the high-pressure polymorph of iron. The (...)

Nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers the Sun and stars, could be a solution for an abundant and CO 2-free industrial source of energy on Earth. However, some scientific and technological issues (...)

It’s the Science Fair : SOLEIL will be present at the Moulon Gymnasium, on the 4 th, 5 th and 6 th of October.

More than 10 years of opening to our users: here is for SOLEIL an opportunity to take stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. A series of thematic brochures (...)

An international team led by the IPANEMA laboratory (CNRS / French ministry of Culture / Univ Versailles St-Quentin) and GALAXIES beamline of SOLEIL publishes a new technique for studying the (...)

Researchers from the University of Poitiers-CNRS, in collaboration with the Nanoscopium beamline and an international and multidisciplinary team, are developing a new scientific approach that may (...)

Looking back on 2018… It will be remembered as the year in which SOLEIL welcomed its 10,000th user, a young woman from the University of Cantabria, ten years after the synchrotron opening to users (...)

Relativistic electron-bunches producing the light in synchrotron radiation facilities are complex media. In particular, when the bunch charge is important, micro-structures appear spontaneously inside (...)

Crystallography is one of the most widely used methods for the study of the 3D architecture of biomolecules (proteins, RNA, DNA). However, the most delicate stage in this technique is the production (...)

Biomasses are organic residuals and waste from agriculture, forests and other human activities; they represent one of the greatest carbon sources in nature (800 Mt in dry matter biomass is harvested (...)