A spin-echo resolved grazing incidence scattering setup for the neutron interrogation of buried nanostructures

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Major, János ^a   Vorobiev, Alexei ^a,e   Rühm, Adrian ^a   Maier, Ralf ^a,f   Major, Márton ^a,g   Mezger, Markus ^a,h   Nülle, Max ^a   Dosch, Helmut ^a   Felcher, Gian P ^b   Falus, Ṕter ^b,i   Keller, Thomas ^c   Pynn, Roger ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f Maassen Spektroskopie GmbH   (Germany)

^g DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; ERROR MARGINS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GRAZING ANGLE SCATTERING; GRAZING INCIDENCE; GRENOBLE; IN-PLANE; IN-PLANE COMPONENTS; LATERAL LENGTH; MESOSCOPIC LENGTH SCALE; MOMENTUM RESOLUTIONS; NEUTRON INTERROGATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRON SPINS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; SCATTERED BEAMS; SCATTERING ANGLES; SPIN ECHO; WAVE VECTOR;

NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRON SOURCES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 73849108787     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3240598     Document Type: Article

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