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A first operational nanometric transfer standard For several years now, the Optics Metrology Laboratory in Optics Group at SOLEIL (LMO) has benefited from LNE (Laboratoire National de metrologie et d (...)

The development of structured materials on a nanometric scale by molecular brick self-assembly is a major scientific challenge that meets many of todays societal demands. These compounds involve a (...)

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a ubiquitous element in the Earth's volcanic systems. A large amount of volcanic CO 2 is propelled from the mantle to the surface of the Earth by unique rocks called (...)

Biradicals are molecules with two unpaired electrons. The simplest and best known examples of biradicals are oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3), but other biradicals appear in combustion processes or as (...)

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscopic vortices of magnetisation, which promise exciting new applications in spintronic devices due to their novel topological and transport properties. In a recent (...)

Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light.

Many private innovators are today facing difficult problems on materials surface characterization. The development of reliable and convenient probing techniques could however change the game in a (...)

Bimetallic materials have opened a new pathway that could control the electronic structure and chemical bonding in catalysts, resulting in superior catalytic performance. Despite considerable focus on (...)

On February 13 th, 2019, Alessandra Gianoncelli (TwinMic beamline at Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy) and Simona Raneri (University of Pisa, Department of Earth Sciences, Italy) started the first (...)

The European project CALIPSOplus ( www.calipsoplus.eu) brings together 19 partners offering access to 14 synchrotrons and 8 FELs in Europe and the Middle East. In particular, the project is funding (...)

In the frame of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, “COXINEL” (Principal Investigator: M. E. Couprie), a specific manipulation line has been designed and built at Synchrotron SOLEIL. It (...)

MARS beamline offers its users a new experimental technique: High-Energy Resolution Fluorescence-Detection (HERFD) X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS)