The HZDR Ion Beam Center (IBC) operates its facility as an international competence and user center for ion beam physics and applications providing all ions in an energy range between a few eV and almost 100 MeV. The available user beam time of about 14.400 h/a is shared between materials and interdisciplinary research work, but includes also a remarkable fraction of about 25% for...
High energy ion beams are used in the power semiconductor industry since 1990s. They are used to prove the correctness of device design for sufficient cosmic ray withstanding capability under real device operation. Proton or helium beams are used to locally modify the excess carrier lifetime in order to widen the safe operation area of fast recovery diodes and switches in demanding application...
In the last years neutron methods became very attractive for industry research on batteries. This contribution will give a few examples how neutrons support the industrial research on batteries using neutron diffraction, neutron imaging and prompt gamma activation analysis as methods of investigation.
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a widely used powerful, environmentally benign oxidizing agent. The liquid phase catalyzed direct synthesis of H2O2 from molecular hydrogen and oxygen constitutes an attractive greener alternative to the industrial anthraquinone auto-oxidation process. However, insufficient mechanistic details hinder the development of...
In this contribution, an investigation on the deformation mechanism of S-SBR/silica composites (0-90 phr of silica) by Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) is presented. The study aims at a microscopic understanding of the filler aggregate structure and its evolution under uniaxial stress. A home-built stretching apparatus, employed at small-angle scattering instrument KWS-2 at MLZ in...
How to develop an innovative process for efficient and high-quality development of advanced materials and components?
Neutrons can see structures evolving in solid state materials, neutrons can see layers diffusing into each other, neutrons can assess the composition and stability of colloidal mixtures - with neutrons you can see materials from the inside, non-destructively, and while the step...
