SOLEIL is one of France's Très Grandes Infrastructures de Recherche (TGIR) (Very Large Scale Research Infrastructures), i.e. tools with unique features required for high-level research activities, open to any scientific community wishing to use them, and accessible on the basis of project excellence.
High-technology facility, SOLEIL is both an electromagnetic radiation source covering a wide range of energies (from the infrared to the x-rays) and a research laboratory at the cutting edge of experimental techniques dedicated to matter analysis down to the atomic scale, as well as a service platform open to all scientific and industrial communities.
