Summer School Materials

SANS and NR - 2010

Student Presentations

• Magnetic Structure of Iron Oxide Nanoparticales Using PSANS - Group F

Lectures and Invited Talks

• Diffraction With Props - Chuck Majkrzak
• Small Angle Neutron Scattering Basics - Boualem Hammouda
• Neutron Reflectivity Basics - Chuck Majkrzak
• Neutron Reflectivity Basics - Brian Kirby
• Science With Neutrons - Dan Neumann
• What is Health Physics? - Health Physics
• Neutron Scattering for Polymer R&D in the Petrochemical Industry - Alex Norman, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
• Determining the Structure of Bio-membranes by Neutron Diffraction and Reflectometry - Ella Mihailescu
• Probing Magnetic Structure With 3D Sensitivity Using Polarized SANS - Kathryn Krycka
• SANS Under Deformation and Flow:Principles and Measurements - Matt Helgeson, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Modulation Doping of Ferromagnetism in Manganite Superlattices - Tiffany Santos, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

Introduction to Neutron Scattering

Roger Pynn of Los Alamos National Laboratories has written a thorough series of lectures intended as an introduction to neutron scattering.

• Neutron Scattering - A Primer (PDF, 12.3MB) by Roger Pynn
• Surface Reflection - Lecture Notes (PDF, 763kb) by Roger Pynn
• Small Angle Neutron Scattering - Lecture Notes (PDF, 1.61MB) by Roger Pynn

Experimental Handouts

• AND/R Experiment Handout - Neutron Reflectivity investigation of the structure of a phospholipid bilayer membrane using the Advanced Neutron Diffractometer / Reflectometer (AND/R).
• NG1 Reflectometer Experiment Handout - Modulated Magnetism in a Nanostructured Butterfly Manganite: Over what distance can we spread charge through delta-doping?
• NG7 Reflectometer Experiment Handout - Interdiffusion in Thin Polymer Films
• NG3 SANS Experiment #1 Handout - Magnetic Structure of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Using SANS
• NG3 SANS Experiment #2 and #3 Handout - Shear Banding in Wormlike Micellar Solutions
• NG7 SANS Experiment Handout - Phase Transitions in Polymeric and Micellar Systems
• USANS Experiment Handout - SANS and USANS Investigation of Oil Uptake by Micellar Gels

Neutron Spectroscopy - 2009

Student Presentations

• Shape Fluctuations of a Spherical Surfactant Shell in a Microemulsion - Group A
• Hydration water dynamics near d-NAGMA studied by DCS - Group B
• Study of α-relaxation in PVME - Group C
• A study of CdCr₂O₄ using SPINS - Group D
• Adventures in Spin Waves - Group E

Lectures and Invited Talks

• Science with Neutrons - Dan Neumann
• Fundamental Properties of the Neutron: Part 1 - M.S. Dewey
• Fundamental Properties of the Neutron: Part 2a - M.S. Dewey
• Fundamental Properties of the Neutron: Part 2b - M.S. Dewey
• How Neutrons Are Produced - Robert E. Williams
• Dynamics and Neutron Scattering - John Copley
• Neutron Spin Echo - Mainstream and Bizarroids - Bela Farago
• Choosing the Right Neutron Spectrometer - Peter Gehring

Inelastic Neutron Scattering Instrumentation

• The high-flux backscattering spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research by A. Meyer, et. al.
• The Disk Chopper Spectrometer at NIST: a new instrument for quasielastic neutron scattering studies by J.R.D. Copley, et. al.
• Time-of-flight spectroscopy and the Disk Chopper Spectrometer - John Copley
• A Lecture on the Neutron Spin-Echo Technique
• The Neutron Spin-Echo Technique and The Basic Equations on Neutron Spin-Echo