Neutron Instruments
The table below documents the measurement capabilities at four different neutron beamlines that may be suitable for investigating the properties of multiferroics.
D10 ILL | D20 ILL | GEM ISIS | HRPD ISIS | |
Magnetic Field | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Electric Field | ? | ? | ? | ? |
PE Loops | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Impedance Spectroscopy | ? | ? | ? | ? |
The basic operating specifications of each beamline are as follows:
D10 ILL | D20 ILL | GEM ISIS | HRPD ISIS | |
Energy Range (meV) | 2.5 − 68 | 2.4 angstrom | ? | ? |
Energy resolution | 5 x 10-3 | > 1 x 103 | ? | ? |
Beamsize (mm v and h) |
10 x 8 | 50 x 30 | ? | ? |
Flux at sample (nm m-2s-2) |
5 x 102 | 4.2. x 103 | ? | ? |
Available sample environments | Helium flow cryostat Hot air furnace Double mirror furnace All standard cyrostats, furnaces, pressure cells and cryomagnets in 2-axis mode |
FurncesVacuum vessel Orange cryostat Eulerian cradle xy translator (250mm) |
? | ? |
Detectors | 80 x 80mm2 area detector or single 3He detector | 3He microstrip gas detector (PSD) | ? | ? |
Weblinks
D10 ILL - Four-circle diffractometer with three-axis energy analysis [1]
D20 ILL - High-intensity two-axis diffractometer with variable resolution [2]
GEM ISIS - General materials powder diffraction [3]
HRPD ISIS - High resolution powder diffraction [4]