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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume 667, Issue -, Pages 32-37Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.11.070
Keywords
Neutron diffraction; Powder diffraction; Neutron instrumentation; Multidetector; Powder diffractometer
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- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (German Ministry for Education and Research)
- FRM II
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SPODI is a high-resolution thermal neutron diffractometer at the research reactor Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) especially dedicated to structural studies of complex systems. Unique features like a very large monochromator take-off angle of 155 degrees and a 5 m monochromator-sample distance in its standard configuration achieve both high-resolution and a good profile shape for a broad scattering angle range. Two dimensional data are collected by an array of 80 vertical position sensitive He-3 detectors. SPODI is well suited for studies of complex structural and magnetic order and disorder phenomena at non-ambient conditions. In addition to standard sample environment facilities (cryostats, furnaces, magnet) specific devices (rotatable load frame, cell for electric fields, multichannel potentiostat) were developed. Thus the characterisation of functional materials at in-operando conditions can be achieved. In this contribution the details of the design and present performance of the instrument are reported along with its specifications. A new concept for data reduction using a 2 theta dependent variable height for the intensity integration along the Debye-Scherrer lines is introduced. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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