VIDEOS

From Ancient Greece to the present day, scientists have been studying light to try to penetrate the mysteries of its composition and how to measure it...

What lights are used at SOLEIL? Why such a diversity? Find some answers in this illustrated video, very accessible and didactic.

Great balls of lightning by SynchrotronSOLEIL A study led at the synchrotron facility SOLEIL unravelled (part) of the mystery of ball lighting.

How does a synchrotron work? Who comes here to perform experiments? Find some answers in this illustrated video.

What happens when light is shone at a sample? What techniques and applications are available at SOLEIL? Find some answers in this illustrated video, very accessible and didactic.

On 12th June 2014, Sylvain Ravy, head of CRISTAL beamline at SOLEIL gave a conference at the University of Caen entitled “How did Fourier transform Crystallography”. Let’s go back on a fascinating and (...)

Since September 16th, 2013, SOLEIL has been authorized by the French Nuclear Safety Authority to study samples on the MARS beamline with radioactivity above exempt concentration limits. We are (...)

As a great research facility located on the Paris-Saclay campus, Ile de France, SOLEIL designs, develops, and offers experimental tools and skills to the whole scientific community. Perspectives on (...)

A 200 meter long extension was added to the SOLEIL synchrotron circular building. It shelters two new beamlines, Nanoscopium and ANATOMIX (selected in the Equipex 2010 call for projects). Operational (...)

SOLEIL synchrotron offers a safer method of deciding in a few minutes if a donor liver can be transplanted

Arabidopsis halleri is a plant whose surprising characteristic is to grow in soil contaminated with heavy metals, and even to store the metals in its leaves. But, in exactly what parts of the leaves (...)

Prussian blue has been prized by artists since the 18th century. Today, scientists are taking a keen interest in this pigment by studying what happens when some of its iron atoms are replaced by (...)