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The V 2TI project (Versatile Variable Temperature Insert) was designed to enhance the sample environment capabilities of theDEIMOS beamline by adding multiple electrical wiring to the sample. It is (...)

Interaction of light with matter is multifarious. Light can be absorbed, emitted, reflected, scattered. It can warm and cool, destroy or heal. Light, or electromagnetic radiation, of various specific (...)

The structure of an antibody in complex with the Zika virus envelope protein has been resolved thanks to data obtained on the PROXIMA-1 and PROXIMA-2A beamlines

Recently, an experimental branch, dedicated to UV and VUV absorption spectroscopy in the gas phase, was designed and installed on the DÉSIRS beamline. This branch combines a unique ultrahigh (...)

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in transition-metal oxides show remarkable properties that make them promising candidates for future applications in electronics. However, their fabrication and (...)

More than 320 million years ago, an insect of an extinct group of grasshopper and carrying a minute mite on its back was rapidly buried, and then fossilised. Recently, both fossil animals were (...)

“Light”, a particularly relevant theme for a synchrotron radiation facility, was chosen by UNESCO for the International Year 2015. What can be drawn from this year in SOLEIL? Browse the electronic (...)

Researchers have for the first time shown that ribose, a sugar that is one of the building blocks of genetic material in living organisms, may have formed in cometary ices.

Cuprates (copper oxides) are currently used as highest temperature (-135° C) superconductors. Scientists are trying to find new candidates for which this temperature would be even higher. This (...)

Researchers from Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS Thales and CEA INAC SP2M, in partnership with the CASSIOPÉE beamline, demonstrate the potential of recently discovered topological insulator α-Sn for room (...)

In March 2016, Doctor Philippe Charlier, Sophie Jacqueline and Julie Arteta, from the Medical and Forensic Anthropology group of Versailles Saint Quentin University, came to DiffAbs beamline to study (...)

Analytical techniques using X-rays (X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray absorption, optical characterization, etc.) require knowledge of fundamental atomic data, and in particular the mass (...)