Conveners
Sample Environment
- Alexander Holmes (European Spallation Source ERIC)
- Sebastian Jaksch (Physicist)
Glassy metals provide an attractive route to low-scattering window materials for neutron instruments and sample environments. These can improve significantly efficiency in use of neutrons. Studies with AMLOY-ZR01, a zirconium based bulk metallic glass from Heraeus have shown high transmission and low levels of small-angle scattering as well as the complete absence of Bragg diffraction peaks...
The neutron scattering facilities worldwide constantly replace or upgrade their instrumental suite to provide the scientific community with unprecedented capabilities. Progresses all-along a neutron scattering beamline, from the improved production and optics to more sensitive detectors, allow nowadays experiments which were unthinkable until some time ago. However, not less relevant are the...
The first industrial revolution enabled mass production by using steam power in the late 18th century. Progress continued by adding electricity and programmable logic controllers in the second and third industrial revolution, respectively. All this two-century progress was more-less irrelevant for science since progress there requires constant changes and our invention. We are now on the...
The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) operates at Germany’s sole neutron source FRM II the diffractometer STRESS-SPEC optimised for fast strain mapping and texture analyses. The STRESS-SPEC group was the first to pioneer sample handling and positioning via industrial robots at neutron diffractometers [1, 2]. However, the current robot is limited in its use due to insufficient absolute...
