SOLEIL
SOLEIL 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 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 and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, 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, a joint CNRS / French Ministry of Culture and Communication research unit.
SOLEIL covers fundamental research needs in physics, chemistry, material sciences, life sciences, 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 BozekCitations: 25,935
Research Areas: X-ray physics, synchrotron radiation, XFEL, chemical physics, ultrafast X-rayJose Avila
Citations: 17,106
Research Areas: Not specifiedAmina Taleb Ibrahimi
Citations: 14,128
Research Areas: Condensed matter physics, low-dimensional systemsTimm Weitkamp
Citations: 12,812
Research Areas: X-ray imaging, microtomography, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase contrast imagingLaurent Nahon
Citations: 12,133
Research Areas: Chirality, circular dichroism, molecular photoionization, VUV spectroscopy, polarimetryAndrea Zitolo
Citations: 10,715
Research Areas: Physical chemistry, materials for energy and hydrogenPavel Dudin
Citations: 9,171
Research Areas: Band structure, materials science, topological insulators, graphene, superconductorsFrançois Bertran
Citations: 9,019
Research Areas: PhysicsPierre Legrand
Citations: 8,743
Research Areas: Structural virology, nucleic acid–protein interaction, crystallography, cryo-EM, tomography, synchrotronAndrea Resta
Citations: 8,310
Research Areas: Surface science, catalysis, nano objects, thin films