NEWS

March 2011. With about 300 publications in 2010 and nearly 30 at the start of this year, SOLEIL is up there with the best in terms of performance and scientific productivity. Twenty beamlines will be (...)

Karim Benzerara, a scientist on the HERMES soft X-ray microscopy beamline was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal for 2009 and the 2010 Houtermans Medal awarded by the European Association of Geochemistry (...)

DEIMOS scientists and associates from the IMPMC (Pierre et Marie Curie University), in collaboration with Roberta Sessoli research's group (Florence University), have succeeded in preparing oriented (...)

In conjunction with the Essonne Sciences network, SOLEIL synchrotron is continuing its involvement with educational institutions by lending its support to the ASTEP initiative (Accompagnement en (...)

Ten years ago, France decided to build a third generation synchrotron called SOLEIL. Since the autumn of 2000 when the synchrotron emerged out of the ground, its first users have benefited from the (...)

To ensure continuous and reliable operation of the synchrotron, SOLEIL has implemented highly redundant and powerful computerized solutions.

SOLEIL to collaborate closely in the construction of a new Swedish synchrotron, the MAX IV. The European Union has decided to equip itself with the most powerful neutron source in the world: The (...)

On 18th October, SOLEIL and The Paul Scherrer Institute based in Villigen (Aargau - Switzerland), in charge of the Swiss Light Source (SLS), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen (...)

The physics and chemistry inspectorate of the Versailles education authority organised a conference and tour entitled “Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and SOLEIL synchrotron, two large-scale research (...)

The scientific expertise of the research groups at SOLEIL are internationally recognized, notably in the field of infrared microscopy and PhotoElectron Emission Microspectroscopy (PEEM), techniques (...)

The machine schedule for 2011 is now available. Altogether, 5208h will be dedicated to the beamlines.

SOLEIL recently launched an ambitious project which aims at producing synchrotron radiation pulses of 100 femtoseconds width: the femto-slicing project. The first beamlines concerned will be TEMPO (...)