College and Keyword System

• 1-01 Metallurgy, metal physics
• 1-02 Strain, stress and texture analysis for engineering applications
• 1-03 Cultural heritage
• 1-04 Materials for industrial applications and processes
• 1-05 Neutron imaging - general topics
• 1-06 Neutron imaging for energy research
• 1-07 Neutron imaging for porous media
• 1-10 Instrumentation for neutron scattering
• 1-20 Techniques for neutron scattering

3-01 - PN1 "LOHENGRIN" fission product spectrometry
3-07 - PF1 cold (polarised) neutron beam
3-14 - PF2 very cold and ultracold neutrons
3-15 - Other nuclear and particle physics
3-16 - S18 Neutron interferometer
3-17 - FIPPS - Fission Product Prompt gamma-ray Spectrometer
3-18 - SuperSUN - A Super Ultra Cold Neutron source

4-01 Spin dynamics of ordered magnets

• Spin waves
• Hybrid excitations, including electromagnons

4-02 Magnetic excitations in superconductors

• Resonant excitations
• Anisotropy of spin fluctuations

4-03 Magnetic critical scattering and phase transitions

• Thermal and quantum phase transitions
• Line-width and spin relaxation effects
• Dynamics of field- and pressure-induced phases

4-04 Localised magnetic excitations

• Crystal field excitations
• Magnetic impurities and clusters
• Crystal fields in dilute systems
• Nuclear magnetism (hyperfine interactions)

4-05 Disordered systems, spin glasses, and spin liquids

• Paramagnetic systems
• Spin liquids and glasses
• Liquid and amorphous magnets
• Collective excitations in low dimensional systems

4-06 Excitations from molecular systems

Single Crystal Diffraction

5-11 Inorganic structures
5-12 Organic compounds and metallo-organic complexes
5-13 Crystalline short-range order (diffuse scattering, plastic phases, liquid crystals)
5-14 Functional materials (including superconductors, mixed-valence compounds, heavy-fermion compounds, low-dimensional systems…)
5-15 Structural studies of phase transitions, pressure-dependence, superstructures, incommensurate structures, quasicrystals, texture analysis
5-16 Physical properties of single-crystal diffraction (anomalous scattering, extinction, TDS analysis, topography, interferometry…)

Powder Diffraction

5-21 Small structures: inorganics, organics, minerals
5-22 Large structures and defect structures (zeolites, clathrates, mesoporous materials, intercalates, catalysts, solid electrolytes, hydrides and hydrogen storage, oxygen confined materials, quasicrystals …)
5-23 Functional materials (including superconductors, mixed-valence compounds, heavy-fermion compounds, low-dimensional systems…)
5-24 Structural studies of phase transitions, effects of temperature and pressure
5-25 Chemical kinetics, thermodiffractometry, thermal expansion
5-26 Defects and atomic disorder in crystals (diffuse scattering)

Powder diffraction

5-31 magnetic structure determination

• magnetic structures andmagnetic phase diagrams in powders

5-32 magnetic defects, short-range order or correlations

• amorphous and short-range ordered magnetic systems, magnetic defects
• magnetic PDF analysis of spin-spin correlations

Single crystal diffraction

5-41 magnetic structure determination

• magnetic structures andmagnetic phase diagrams in single crystals

5-42 magnetic defects, short-range order or correlations

• amorphous and short-range ordered magnetic systems, magnetic defects

5-51 magnetisation density (including related single-crystal structure refinement)

• electronic form factors

5-52 nuclear polarisation

• depolarisation studies

5-54 (Magnetic) films and surfaces, applied magnetism (neutron polarimetry)

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• diffraction studies of magnetic films and multilayers

5-55 Neutron polarimetry

• polarised beam diffraction and polarisation analysis (neutron polarimetry

College 5C: Nanoscale magnetism and superconductivity

5-61 magnetic structure determination

• nanoparticles
• grains and alloys, applied magnetism
• magnetic phase diagrams

5-62 magnetic defects, short-range order or correlations

•  magnetic defects
• glasses, short- range oder or correlations

5-71 magnetic diffraction

•  flux line lattices, superconductors
• skyrmions and other nanomagnetic structures
• magnetic phase diagrams

5-72 magnetic diffraction

•  interfaces and multilayers
• lateral correlations (grazing incidence SANS and offspecular scattering)

6-01 Monatomic liquids and gases
6-02 Molecular liquids and gases
6-03 Liquid alloys and molten salts
6-04 Glassy behaviour in polymers
6-05 Glasses and amorphous materials
6-06 Short-range atomic correlations in disordered crystals - nuclear total scattering
6-07 Structure and dynamics of matter in soft and hard confinement and porous systems

7-01 Lattice dynamics

• harmonic excitations (density of states, phonon dispersion)
• anharmonicity (frequency shifts and phonon line shapes)
• electron phonon coupling
• disorder effects (local modes, hybridization, frequency shifts and broadening)
• excitations in quasi crystals

7-02 Dynamics of structural phase transitions

• critical scattering
• soft modes
• central peaks
• modulated phases

7-03 Ionic relaxation and ionic diffusion in the solid state (except liquids and glasses)

• self-diffusion and demixing
• guest dynamics in a host structure
• guest-host coupling

7-04 Spectroscopy of (nonmagnetic) molecular systems

7-05 Spectroscopy of chemi- and physisorbed species

8-01 Macromolecular crystallography
8-02 Biological membranes
8-03 Solution structure of biological macromolecules
8-04 Dynamics of biological macromolecules
8-05 Methodological studies in biology and biophysics

9-10 Colloidal systems: micelles, microemulsions, amphiphilic aggregates, surfactant systems, organic and inorganic colloidal particle systems
9-11 Polymeric systems: solutions, melt, polyelectrolyte, blends, co-polymers, elastomers, gels, networks, liquid crystal
9-12: Mixed systems: organic or inorganic particles with surfactants, particles with polyelectrolytes or polymers, surfactants and polymers,...
9-13: Soft matter physics with bio-related molecules