What is the purpose of... the Synchrotron and its structural techniques?

Thursday, April 26, 2018
IAE – Lecture Hall, Building 29 – Triolet Campus – Montpellier

How does a synchrotron work? What experiments can be conducted there? How can we access it? This lecture will briefly present what a synchrotron is and how techniques based on synchrotron radiation can help us in our research activities.

Synchrotron radiation has exceptional characteristics compared to that of sources available in laboratories:

• Infrared to X-ray emission spectrum
• High brightness and spatial resolution
• Strong spatial and temporal consistency.

Its properties enable it to be used in numerous experiments, such as:

• X-ray fluorescence: determination of elemental composition;
• X-ray absorption: physicochemical and structural studies at the atomic scale;
• X-ray diffraction: structural studies (crystallography);
• X-ray microtomography: 3D imaging.

This conference will focus on structural information techniques.

Registrations

Speakers

• Lorenzo STIEVANO, Professor, Montpellier
  Introduction
• Andrew THOMPSON, Scientific Director
  SOLEIL Synchrotron – The contribution of synchrotrons to understanding the structure of matter – some examples and prospects for the future
• Andrea ZITOLO, Research Officer
  Synchrotron SOLEIL – X-ray absorption spectroscopy: a versatile tool for studying the electronic and atomic structure of materials
• Werner PAULUS, Professor, Montpellier
  X-ray diffraction: from laboratory diffractometers to synchrotrons