What is the Synchrotron and its structural techniques used for?

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

How does a synchrotron work? What kinds of experiments can be conducted there? How does one gain access to it? This lecture will provide a brief overview of what a synchrotron is and how techniques based on synchrotron radiation can assist us in our research activities.

Synchrotron radiation has exceptional characteristics compared to that of laboratory sources:

• Emission spectrum from infrared to X-rays
• High brightness and spatial resolution
• Strong spatial and temporal consistency.

Thanks to its features, it opens the door to a wide range of experiences, 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.

Registration

Speakers

• Lorenzo STIEVANO, Professor, Montpellier
  Introduction
• Andrew THOMPSON, Scientific Director
  , SOLEIL Synchrotron – The role of the synchrotron in understanding the structure of matter – some examples and future prospects
• Andrea ZITOLO, Research Associate
  , SOLEIL Synchrotron – 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