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Published on 15/02/2019PUMA beamline welcomes its first users!
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 12/02/2019CALIPSO plus : 3rd call for proposals open to the Industry (SMEs) for photonic material (...)
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 07/02/2019Mastering the laser plasma acceleration electron beam transport
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 06/02/2019Probing actinides 5f orbitals now possible on MARS
MARS beamline offers its users a new experimental technique: High-Energy Resolution Fluorescence-Detection (HERFD) X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS)Read more -
Published on 10/01/2019Best Wishes for 2019 !
SOLEIL Synchrotron staff wishes you a very happy new year! 2019 is proclaimed the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by UNESCO. This table is a "tabular view of all the (...)Read more -
Published on 19/12/2018Highly elastic magnetoelectric ceramics!
"Multifunctional" materials have several physical properties that can be used in a single application. The coupling between their different physical properties is one of the key questions to address (...)Read more -
Published on 14/12/2018SOLEIL's contribution to Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis
In close collaboration with hospitals, SOLEIL takes part in the design of new methods to diagnose diseases at an early stage and seeks to better understand the evolution of pathologies. Its longterm (...)Read more -
Published on 10/12/2018Information on the retraction of an article published in Nature Materials
Information : Synchrotron SOLEIL commissioned an independent inquiry, composed of scientific experts, in order to clarify the circumstances leading to the retraction, by the authors, of the article : (...)Read more -
Published on 06/12/2018Synchrotron SOLEIL and the CEA shed light (by X-ray diffraction) on a nuclear fuel
Using X-ray diffraction, researchers of CEA and SOLEIL Synchrotron have just succeeded in characterising the microstructure of a nuclear fuel transverse section that had been irradiated in a reactor (...)Read more -
Published on 05/12/2018SOLEIL establishes a Data Management Policy
In October 2018, SOLEIL Management approved the implementation of a SOLEIL data management policy for experimental data, and associated metadata, which are collected, reduced, processed and / or (...)Read more -
Published on 28/11/2018Lifting molecules off the grains with X-rays
In cold and dense regions of the interstellar medium, numerous molecules are observed. Some move freely in the gas phase, others are frozen at the surface of tiny dust grains, forming so-called ice (...)Read more -
Published on 23/11/2018Role of the mineral composition of wetland riverbanks in the transfer of trace metals
The transport of metallic trace elements (MTE), whether of natural origin or related to the human activities, is a major challenge in the preservation of ecosystems and public health. This transport (...)Read more