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NG-1 Reflectometer Design Features


Plan View of Instrument

Specs

  • Vertically-focusing pyrolytic graphite monochromator
  • Fe-Si supermirror transmission polarizer and analyzer
  • Incident neutron wavelength λ = 4.75 A, dλ/λ as low as 1.5 %
  • Neutron flux ~1.3x104 n/(s cm2) for 2.2' and 2.5o FWHM horizontal and vertical divergences, respectively
  • Sensitivity to reflectivities < 10-8
  • Sub Å thickness resolution
  • Measurable feature thickness ~ 15 Å to ~ 5,000 Å
  • Polarization efficiencies as high as 98%
  • Slit-sample distances: slit 1, 75"; slit 2, 14"; slit 3, 9", slit 4, 42"

In situ capabilities

  • Cryostats (50mK<T<675K)
  • Magnetic fields (0 to 0.7 Telsa)
  • Vacuum Furnaces 77K<T<2,073K
  • Electrochemical Cells
  • Liquid Cells
  • Controlled Humidity Cells
  • Laser Illumination
Last modified 24-January-2008