Neutron scattering in high-pressure environments offers unique opportunities to measure the physical properties of matter but faces challenges due to low signal intensity and high background noise. In this study, Monte Carlo simulations were employed to identify background sources in low-temperature and high-pressure sample environments at the SINQ instrument CAMEA. Simulation results suggest...
Diffraction studies during chemical reactions reveal details of reaction
pathways, which are often crucial in the synthesis of functional materials.
Neutron diffraction is particularly valuable as a probe due to its sensitivity to light elements in the presence of heavy elements, especially in gas reactions involving elements such as hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon oxide. Therefore,...
An increase in demand and the resulting price increase of Helium-3 has
sparked the development of alternative kinds of neutron detectors for
various applications in neutron science. Our group is developing three
detectors with solid Boron-10 converters. With their scalability,
up-to-date readout electronics, high-rate capabilities and wide range of
active readout areas they are promising...
D20 at ILL provides highest intensity in constant-wavelength neutron powder diffraction at medium and high resolution. The most critical ingredient to this, besides optical versatility and a high incident neutron flux, is a large position sensitive detector (PSD) that covers the whole range of diffraction angles with sufficient definition. More than a quarter of a century ago, this was very...
With the transformative development of event-based detectors, new perspectives for detection systems for various types of radiation were opened up. A recently developed event-driven imaging system based on Timepix3 sensor technology is capable of observing and time-stamping the optical signal induced by particle interactions in scintillator materials with nanosecond temporal and micrometer...
