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Physicists have just identified a new aperiodic order in a material composed of bistable magnetic molecules. This order, which results from a modulation of the magnetic state that is incommensurate (...)

On 14th and 15th January 2014, the course entitled ‘The SOLEIL synchrotron: science and innovation’ will host teachers from the Paris Academy (education authority), following its tremendous success (...)

Using light to control the electronic state at the molecular level is a challenge for the development of new technologies for high density data storage. To develop new molecular memories, a group from (...)

Decembre 2012. On November 6, 2002, SOLEIL was granted permission from the Saint-Aubin local authority to build a synchrotron on the Orme des Merisiers site. In the last ten years, the SOLEIL teams (...)

Graphene, a two-dimensional crystal composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, has very promising properties for electronics. However, before these potential applications could be realized, it was (...)

The NH compound is a highly reactive molecule which exists in the forms 14NH and 15NH: one nitrogen atom whose nucleus has 7 or 8 neutrons + one hydrogen atom. This is a key species and its 14NH form (...)

Researchers from Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, and Japan have now developed a mag-netic memory with one bit per molecule. By an electric pulse, the metal-organic molecule can be switched reliably between a (...)

The major preoccupation of the electronics industry is to reduce the size of its components. However, the miniaturization of conventional manufacturing techniques for transistors, the basic (...)

Timm Weitkamp is the scientist in charge of NANOTOMOGRAPHY, one of two long SOLEIL beamlines, with NANOSCOPIUM, dedicated to cutting-edge nano-imaging using hard X-rays. Timm has developed a new (...)

LUNEX5 (free electron Laser Using a New accelerator for the Exploitation of X-ray radiation of 5th generation), a new advanced Free-Electron Laser (FEL) project proposed by a consortium of (...)

The nominal optics of the SOLEIL storage ring has been optimized to satisfy users in terms of electron beam size at «source» points, while guaranteeing an excellent performance with regard to the (...)

Research involving the SOLEIL SEXTANTS beamline team together with researchers at UPMC, Université d'Orsay and the Italian synchrotron ELETTRA, show the potential of using linearly polarized X-rays (...)