Institut Laue-Langevin

With its international funding and expertise the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) offers scientists and industry the world's leading facility in neutron science and technology. From its Grenoble site in the south-east of France the Institute operates the most intense neutron source on earth.

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17.12.2010 High-Temperature Superconductors reveal part of their mystery!

In collaboration with the ILL, scientists from the LLB (France) and the University of Minnesota (USA) have published in the November issue of the journal Nature the results of experiments performed on the polarized neutron...[more]


14.12.2010 ILL News for users

The December 2010 issue is now available![more]


10.11.2010 European XFEL joins EIROforum

Richard Wagner, ILL director, and all EIROFOrum DGs attended the signature ceremony in Culham on 8 November 2010. At the Autumn 2010 Council meeting of the EIROforum, the partnership of seven European intergovernmental...[more]


14.10.2010 Reactor restart

The next experimental cycle starts on 28 October, 8.30. [more]


30.09.2010 Silk surprise

New neutron research has revealed that the proteins making up silkworm silk have unexpected properties: effectively the proteins become more concentrated as they are diluted. The study published earlier this month in the RSC...[more]


27.09.2010 ILL 2020 Vision User Meeting – Future directions in neutron science

The “ILL 2020 Vision” user meeting was organised in Grenoble on 15-17 September 2010 with the aim of discussing with the neutron user community the development of a programme of upgrades to the ILL instrument suite and...[more]


03.09.2010 ILL/Computing for Science software pre-installed on a LiveDVD

The Computing for Science group has built a custom LiveDVD which gathers some ILL related software to be used for data analysis and simulation. It runs on all Intel/AMD based computers and contains LAMP, nMoldyn, McStas, Matlab...[more]