Polygone scientifique
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the Polygone scientifique is part of Rhône-Alpes , Ville de Grenoble , Grenoble , Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux , Fontaine .
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the Polygone scientifique is part of Rhône-Alpes , Ville de Grenoble , Grenoble , Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux , Fontaine .
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Grenoble
Made by rscandel
Lately I'm basicly uploading pictures from my 'archive' because I spend most of my time working on my PhD dissertation. I don't go out so much, I don't travel... so no new cities or places or people. I hope that my flow is not getting boring. I personally find the aerial shots interesting but well.... maybe my visitors not....sorry. I think next friday I'll drive to Freiburg, so new material. Here, you can see the city of Grenoble. When I took this picture I was sleeping. I woke up just for some seconds. I saw the city, I took the camera (I always have it with m when I fly) and the shot. Then I continued sleeping. When I tranferred the pictures to my computer I had no idea which place it was. Having a look at the time it was taken, 40 minutes before the next one, I calculated the aproximate area where this place was supposed to be. I used Google Earth to find it. But I must recognize that, after a while looking for it, trying to find the circle that is where the river is divided in two, I was not very successful. Then I asked my friend Jordi and his very first spontaneous reaction was to say: Well, I think it's Grenoble. Voilà!!! Every picture has a story behind itself :-) Ah! If you see it in the larger size, the circle next to the river is the facility where the Atomic energy organisation speeds up atoms. electrons to make experiments. I found it in wikipedia.
Microoptics test bench
Made by carsten de
The index of refraction for x-rays in most materials turns out to be smaller than one (but sorry, no data transfer faster than light...). The difference is very small, so lenses have very small radius of curvature, even for relatively long focal lengths. For micro- and nanofocussing whole stacks of lenses are needed: 30, 50 even up to 100 lenses with radius down to 50 micrometers. Common techniques are imprinting into Beryllium, Aluminum or Nickel, or etching into Si using lithographic methods developed for microelectronics. This station is a test bench for such optics. One of our best results was resolving a 200 nanometer pattern on a test sample.
Neo-ludites vs Post-rationalists
Made by blackhalos
Recently in France an open debate took place in several cities (among them Grenoble, where the NanoSafe 2010 conference took place from 15 to 18 of November) across the country in order to investigate several issues that arise from nanotechnology's applications to everyday life. Perspectives as Ethics, Law, Health, Politics e.t.c. Nearly half of those debates have been postponed either cancelled as soon as protestors came to the forum. At the final debates one had to own an invitation in order to be a part of those open debates. Even according to the internal evaluation of the organizers this debate proved to be a failure...
Microoptics test bench
Made by carsten de
A set of planar lenses etched into Silicon. These lenses focus in one direction only, so that in order to achieve a small spot in both directions one needs a pair of lenses as shown here. These particular lenses were also used for a recent experiment where the overfocused beams from two lenses overlap, generating an interference field with nanometer periodicity (see here).
View of the ESRF experimental hall
Made by carsten de
A rare view into the ring tunnel of the ESRF. The concrete slabs and lead roof panels have been removed for the visit of Peter Ginter, who took a series of stunning images of our institute. In the evening, when everybody had left, I brought in my own camera to take this series of images. The swimming pool illumination is a problem of white balance: The main hall is tungsten, the tunnel and radiation hutches are neon...
Catriona
Made by Nick Devenish
This was the second portrait shot I took with Nick's f/1.4 50mm lens, and was taken just as Cat was putting on her sun-lotion. I love the shallow depth of field this lens gives, and really want to get the f/1.8 at some point soon now (Can't afford the 1.4!) I really like the picture itself too, though it's probably made easier by the fact that as someone said to me on the coach - She's ridiculously photogenic
Airlocked
Made by Siebuhr
The inner door of the airlock closing when leaving the reactor hall in ILL. I had to go though quite a few times before I didn't get scared about the small sucking-sound in the end; it's when it changes from inside to outside pressure. (The reactor hall is under-pressurised.) The very first time a 20cm steel door you hear the locks and seals engage can be quite scary.
ID06 Optics hutch
Made by carsten de
These pictures show part of an x-ray beamline at the ESRF. Unlike CERN, the principle function of the ESRF is to create synchrotron radiation, i.e. very intense, bright x-rays. The purpose of this hutch is to filter the pink beam coming from the source device through a monochromator, which selects only one particular photon energy.
30T pulsed magnetic field experiment on BM26 Dubble
Made by carsten de
This was one of our first test experiments to bring a 30 Tesla pulsed magnetic field coil to the synchrotron. We spend a lot of time with X-profiles (I have never used so many in one single experiment) to set up all the different components. We also installed meters and meters of heavy-gauge grounding in case of an electrical short circuit.
img_2439
Made by carsten de
Left hand side: An x-ray beam tube (Front End). Right hand side: The electron beam tube. A series of magnets keeps the electron bunches together and on the right trajectory. Blue: Dipoles (bending magnets). Red: Quadrupoles and Sextupoles (focusing). Purple: Undulators (generate intense x-rays).
Silly signs
Made by Arenamontanus
Bus signs at the grenoble train station. They alternately show the destination of the bus and when it will arrive, or the current time. Unfortunately, this means that most of the time they show the less important information (time) than the important one (destination, departure).
Dwarfed
Made by keppet
The ILL, Grenoble. I think that building on the left is a synchrotron. Somehow the setting just seems to say that modern physics is nothing compared to the age and majesty of the Earth, But then I remember how cool physics is and go back to the experiment.
10T Cryomagnet on ID20
Made by carsten de
This magnet is installed on the beamline ID20 of the ESRF.
View into the ESRF storage ring tunnel
Made by carsten de
A rare view into the ring tunnel of the ESRF. BTW, the has posted a huge number of pictures, unfortunately without much explanation.
BM32 optics hutch
Made by carsten de
View into the optics hutch of BM32. During operation, the hutch is closed with a lead roof, just like the experiments hutch seen in the background.
Pyramidal Orchid / Anacamptis pyramidalis
Made by carsten de
Location: Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France - just behind the parking lot at work, miraculously escaped the lawn mowers. Date: June 18, 2010
Minatec
Made by frenchkriss
Minatec nanotechnology center. View from the Bastille. Minatec centre de recherche sur les nanotechnologies. Vue depuis la Bastille.
Europole
Made by Siebuhr
Taken in a very odd and surreal suburb called 'Europole'. There are plenty of offices and condos, but not a single person in sight...
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institut Laue-Langevin
Made by Arenamontanus
The science polygon is full of interesting research such as cold neutrons, chip fabs, nanotechnology, synchroton radiation etc.
Taking notes
Made by Siebuhr
Taken during my visit to the ILL. In the backgrond: the IN20 experiment station and the 55MW Nuclear reactor.
Nearest places of interest:
| Station de Traitement des Effluents et des Déchets du CEA Grenoble Fontaine, Isère CEA Grenoble Minatec | Pont d Oxford Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux STMicroelectronics Grenoble ILL1 |
