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The ILL has firmly established itself as a pioneer in neutron science and technology. Neutron beams are used to carry out frontier research in diverse fields.

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Neutron technology at ILL

The MILAND detector will start its operation in 2008 on the D16 instrument; It is the most performing detector of this type in terms of spatial resolution (1 mm), and counting rate capability (1 MHz @ 10%dead time correction).

 

The unusual gas pressure (15 bars) allows to significantly reduce parallaxe effect, and thus to reduce the distance from sample to detector. By inverting the polarity of the drift electrode, it is possible to work the detector in 2 modes: priority to the efficiency, or to the spatial resolution. A significant cost reduction will be obtained when ASIC circuits, currently in development at the ILL, will become available. This is foreseen for 2008.