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Publié le 06.04.2025

SOLEIL's contribution to the Energy Transition

More than 15 years after the opening to our users, SOLEIL takes stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. Thus, we invite you to discover a series of thematic brochures presenting the major scientific contributions of Synchrotron SOLEIL to several society challenges. After the Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis, the Agro...

Publié le 16/06/2025

Transition metal dichalcogenides - Evolution of their electronic structure from two- to...

Ever since the discovery of graphene, research on two-dimensional (2D) materials is ongoing a tremendous effort. Along with this trend, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are extremely promising...

Publié le 03/03/2025

Universal collective electronic excitations in cuprate high-temperature superconductors...

Copper oxide materials, also known as cuprates, feature the fascinating ability to become superconducting below a critical temperature Tc. Understanding the collective electron properties in cuprates...

Publié le 05/07/2023

SOLEIL Highlights 2022

This document presents a selection of the remarkable results achieved by our users and teams. They allow us to remain optimistic for the future, despite a difficult context linked to the...

Publié le 26/05/2023

Spintronics: the promising spin current/charge current conversion properties of a...

As presented previously, topological insulators are electrically insulating materials, but whose surface (on some atomic layers) is conductive. At the CASSIOPEE beamline, studies on Bi_1-x...

Publié le 12/12/2022

Quantum multilayer materials – WSe₂/BiFeO₃ heterostructures for...

The purpose of this work is to study the dependence of the electronic structure of WSe₂ – which determines all its properties – with the direction of the electric polarization of a...

Publié le 22/11/2022

The effects of confinement (of electrons) on the surface states of a topological insulator

Today, the total data storage capacity in the world is between 10 and 50 zettabytes (10²¹), and this value could double every two years. Research into new materials that would enable...

Publié le 29/06/2022

SOLEIL Highlights 2021

The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic...

Publié le 15/12/2021

V₂O₃, the movie! An old physics mystery finally put into images

The properties of materials are the basis of many applications; explaining them is also sometimes still a challenge for researchers. The most familiar physical property is the ability of a material...

Publié le 08/10/2021

Laëtitia Baringthon awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents France 2021 Prize for...

Laëtitia Baringthon, a PhD student on the CASSIOPÉE beamline, in collaboration with C2N and the CNRS/THALÈS joint physics unit, was awarded the “Prix Jeunes Talents France 2021” by the L'Oréal...

Publié le 27/07/2021

SOLEIL Highlights 2020

It is obviously impossible to summarize the year 2020 without mentioning the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced us all to change our way of interacting and working. However, the...

Publié le 26/07/2021

Conceptual Design Report for SOLEIL Upgrade

This document, which you can download, presents the conceptual design of an upgrade of Synchrotron SOLEIL accelerators, beamlines and infrastructure. The project is planned in two phase of 5 years...