Research resources
The Saclay Plateau Campus houses large-scale infrastructure, which is varied in nature. One of the oldest resources, the Laboratoire de l'accélérateur linéaire d’Orsay [Orsay Linear Accelerator Laboratory], was built in the late 1950s to provide scientists with an electron accelerator. It is this laboratory that produced the Super ACO and DCI synchrotrons that were used until 2003 before being replaced by the SOLEIL [Optimised source of intermediary light energy] facility, which opened in 2006. Since then, other facilities have been installed nearby, for physical characterisation, computation, data access, imaging, and other new emerging projects. There are approximately 10 facilities and you can also add other sites to that which are located nearby (Evry and Guyancourt).
Infrastructure
| Infrastructure on the campus | Type of activity |
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| Unit of the ESTEEM European infrastructure project at Paris-Sud 11 University | Electron microscopy |
| Characterisation of matter radiation-matter interaction |
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| Data Centre on greenhouse gases |
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| Platforms for life sciences |
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| Lasers (LULI [Laboratory for the Use of Intense Lasers], LOA, SLIC) and Extreme light infrastructure project | Radiation-matter interaction, optics, attosecond physics |
| Preclinical to clinical exploration of the brain by high powered magnetic resonance imaging |
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| Orphée neutron reactor/Laboratoire Léon Brillouin [Laboratory] | Characterisation of inert or living matter on the nanoscale. Multidisciplinary |
| Characterisation of inert or living matter on the nanoscale. Multidisciplinary |
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| Nano-INNOV and nanosciences (project) | Nanofabrication and nanocharacterisation |
| Centre National de séquençage d’Evry[Evry National Sequencing Centre] | Plant and animal biology |
| Guyancourt Instrument and spatial centre | Integration and calibration of instrumentation for observation |
