SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name SOLEIL is a backronym for Source Optimisée de Lumière d’Énergie Intermédiaire du LURE (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Électromagnétique. The facility is run by a civil corporation held by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), two French national research agencies. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a south-western suburb of Paris, near Gif-sur-Yvette and Saclay, which host other facilities for nuclear and particle physics. The facility is an associate member of the University of Paris-Saclay. SOLEIL also hosts IPANEMA, the European research platform on ancient materials (archaeology, palaeontology, past environments and cultural heritage), a joint CNRS / French Ministry of Culture and Communication research unit. SOLEIL covers fundamental research needs in physics, chemistry, material sciences, life sciences (notably in the crystallography of biological macromolecules), earth sciences, and atmospheric sciences. It offers the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods from infrared to X-rays, and structural methods such as X-ray diffraction and scattering.
Main parameters SOLEIL contains electrons travelling with an energy of 2.75 GeV around a 354 m circumference. It takes the electrons 1.2 μs to travel around this ring at almost the speed of light; 847,000 times per second.
Most Cited Scientists at Synchrotron SOLEIL According to Google Scholar, the current top 10 most cited scientists affiliated with Synchrotron SOLEIL are:
John Bozek Citations: 25,935 Research Areas: X-ray physics, synchrotron radiation, XFEL, chemical physics, ultrafast X-ray
Jose Avila Citations: 17,106 Research Areas: Not specified
Amina Taleb Ibrahimi Citations: 14,128 Research Areas: Condensed matter physics, low-dimensional systems
Timm Weitkamp Citations: 12,812 Research Areas: X-ray imaging, microtomography, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase contrast imaging
Laurent Nahon Citations: 12,133 Research Areas: Chirality, circular dichroism, molecular photoionization, VUV spectroscopy, polarimetry
Citations: 10,715 Research Areas: Physical chemistry, materials for energy and hydrogen
Pavel Dudin Citations: 9,171 Research Areas: Band structure, materials science, topological insulators, graphene, superconductors
François Bertran Citations: 9,019 Research Areas: Physics
Pierre Legrand Citations: 8,743 Research Areas: Structural virology, nucleic acid–protein interaction, crystallography, cryo-EM, tomography, synchrotron
Andrea Resta Citations: 8,310 Research Areas: Surface science, catalysis, nano objects, thin films
References
External links Media related to Synchrotron Soleil at Wikimedia Commons Official website (in French) Official website (in English) LURE website (in French) Lightsources.org Official website of IPANEMA (in English) Official website of IPANEMA (in French)