2008 NCNR/NSF Summer School Course Materials
The following documents are in PDF format. You can download the free Adobe Reader to view them.
The lecture presentations will be posted here as they come available.
For a general introduction to neutron scattering, Neutron Scattering - A Primer (PDF, 12.3MB) by Roger Pynn (LAUR-95-3840 Los Alamos Science, Vol. 19, 1990.) is suggested reading.
"Neutron Scattering - A Primer" by Roger Pynn is temporarily unavailable for download. We will update the site once it is available.
Andrew Jackson has written an Introduction to the theory of Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Neutron Reflectometry to give a solid background of the two techniques.
Small Angle Neutron Scattering
- Small Angle Neutron Scattering - Lecture Notes (PDF, 1.61MB) by Roger Pynn
- SANS Experiment Write Up #1: Phase Transitions in Polymeric and Micellar Systems (PDF, 174kB)
- SANS Experiment Write Up #2: Flux Line Lattice Forays Using SANS (PDF, 781kB)
- USANS Experiment Write Up: Investigation of the Structure of Coarse Fibrin Clots (PDF, 108kB)
Neutron Reflectivity
- Surface Reflection - Lecture Notes (PDF, 763kb) by Roger Pynn.
- AND/R Experiment Write Up: Neutron Reflectivity investigation of the structure of a phospholipid bilayer membrane using the Advanced Neutron Diffractometer / Reflectometer (AND/R) (PDF, 1597kb)
- NR Experiment Write Up #1: Langmuir Monolayer Study of Tethered Polymer Brushes (PDF, 311kb)
- NR Experiment Write Up #2: Interlayer Magnetic Coupling in an Fe/Cr Superlattice (PDF, 630kb)
Invited Talks
- Charles Majkrzak - Diffraction With Props
- Roger Pynn - Basic Scattering at Small Q
- Boualem Hammouda - Insight Into the SANS Technique
- Roger Pynn - An Introduction to Surface Reflection
- Frank Heinrich - Biology With Reflectometery
- Kathryn Krycka - The Attraction of Magnetism: how polarization can enhance magnetic scattering analysis
- Ron Jones - Probing 3-dimensional orientation in templated self-assembly with Rotational SANS & Reflectometry