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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 (...)

Following a joint project undertaken by the ImXPAD Company and SOLEIL with a development time of more than three years, a ‘CirPAD’ detector was installed in May 2018 on the diffractometer of the (...)

Since 2011, 3 times a year, SOLEIL organizes visits a little special, designed for high school students, called SOLEIL Pursuit. As in a Trivial Pursuit, students are asked to answer different (...)

Integration of quantum information hardware into scalable and robust solid-state architectures will be key to allow performing quantum computation, one of the pillars of the recently launched EU (...)

2017 will be remembered as the first year with all 29 SOLEIL beamlines receiving photons. An increasing number of operational experimental stations is available, with the opening to users of the multi (...)

“Nanotube” and “butanone”, “small” and “malls”, “atom” and “moat”: these anagrams illustrate how meaning comes from the association of the letters of the alphabet. In the same way, the properties of (...)

The structures in the Sn – Sb phase diagram recently regained interest due to their occurrence in lead free solder. To predict the stability of a solder joint, all possibly appearing intermetallic (...)

To build the hard scaly shells that enclose their cells, coccolithophorid algae produce calcitic scales within an intracellular calcifying compartment and secrete them onto the cell surface. The (...)

Claire Laulhé, lecturer at the Paris-Saclay University (Paris-Sud) and affiliated to the SOLEIL synchrotron for her research, is honored this year with the CNRS bronze medal. The CNRS Bronze Medal (...)

At the end of April 2018, the first coupling of the synchrotron radiation with a SESAME infrared spectrometer was conducted and the first molecule vibrational spectra were recorded. This infrared (...)

Researchers from the Laboratory for Functional Ecology and Environment (EcoLab) in Toulouse, Grenoble CEA (INAC), the nuclear microprobe in Saclay CEA (LEEL) and the LUCIA beamline at SOLEIL have (...)

From 10 to 14 April 2018, the ANATOMIX beamline hosted its first user experiment following a proposal approved by SOLEIL’s Program Committees. The research team led by Michel Bornert, from the (...)