SOLEIL Synchrotron

SOLEIL is the French national synchrotron radiation source. It is a large-scale user facility, pursuing
multidisciplinary basic and applied research, at the forefront of the international activity.

SEXTANTS is the SOLEIL beamline dedicated to elastic, inelastic and coherent soft X-ray scattering experiments. Magnetic scattering and x-ray holographic imaging are among the original activities developed by the beamline research group.

CASSIOPEE is a soft x ray beamline dedicated to angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments in solid state physics. They also have a spin-resolved ARPES experiment highly relevant for the project.

SOLEIL – SEXTANTS / CASSIOPE Group

Synchrotron experiments for the analysis of the magnetic properties with element selectivity and spatial resolution. Resonant X-ray scattering probe the collective properties of an ensemble of objects, with capabilities for magnetization depth profiling and for revealing the coupling between objects. Taking advantage of the large transverse coherence length of synchrotron radiation, X-ray holographic imaging with magnetization sensitivity and element selectivity can be achieved via coherent scattering experiments. Both approaches to magnetization analysis have been implemented and developed to a high degree of performance at:

SEXTANTS beamline and recently give access to magnetic chirality in skyrmions-like compounds as well as imaging skyrmions creation under magnetic field with element selectivity and 20nm spatial resolution.

The CASSIOPEE team research activity deals with strongly-correlated systems and low-dimensional systems like graphene and topological insulators.