Feb. 8, 2021
Magnetic frustration in a pentagonal network
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Feb. 7, 2021
High pressure neutron studies reveal evolution of magnetism through an insulator-to-metal transition
The weakly coupled planes of Fe ions in the material are pushed closer together under extreme pressure. This results in metallisation but not the loss of all magnetic order as previous measurements have suggested. The lower pressure order is however replaced by a new short-range version.
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Jan. 11, 2021
ILL warmly congratulates Dr Sabrina Disch for being awarded the Wolfram-Prandl-Prize
ILL warmly congratulates Dr. Sabrina Disch, the winner of the Wolfram-Prandl-Prize 2020 for young scientists. The German Committee Research with Neutrons (KFN) awarded the prize on the occasion of the German Conference Neutron Scattering Conference (DN2020) .Dr. Sabrina Disch received the 2500-Eur…
Dec. 13, 2020
ILL next director will be Paul Langan
Paul Langan. Credit: ORNL
14 December 2020The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is delighted to announce that its next Director will be Prof Paul Langan. Prof Langan will take up his duties on 1st October 2021 when Helmut Schober, the current Director, completes his ter…
Nov. 25, 2020
Steps towards understanding the exotic atomic nuclei behind reactions in stars
Recent experiments jointly conducted at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) alongside three other laboratories around the world have revealed a surprisingly complex landscape of three different coexisting shapes in 64Ni, a semi-magic nucleus thought to be purely spherical up to now. This experimenta…
Nov. 23, 2020
151 years of the periodic table – from a nuclear physics perspective
By Araceli LOPEZ-MARTENS,
CSNSM, Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, France
Nov. 20, 2020
Inauguration of the 'Neutron Imaging for Material and Energy Research' joint research unit
Nov. 10, 2020
EIROforum statement on UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development 2020
Oct. 27, 2020
Researchers find new way to stop shipwrecks ‘turning to dust’ on land with neutrons
Ancient archaeological wooden artefacts begin to degrade as soon as they leave the waterNanoparticle treatments proven to help prevent thousands of years of human history from disappearingThe new method will pave the way for better preservation of ships from millennia agoResearchers at the Institu…
Oct. 15, 2020
Magnificent magnons
Understanding, manipulating and exploiting the intriguing magnetic behaviour of a synthetic crystalline material called yttrium iron garnet (YIG) could open the door to the next, advanced generation of communication and information-processing devices.
Experiments at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) neutron beam facility in Grenoble, France have for the first time fully exposed the complex magnetic behaviour of YIG.
Oct. 6, 2020
Machine Learning: First autonomous steps of the neutron spectrometer ThALES
During the second reactor cycle in 2020, the ThALES team and SCI/CS at ILL in Grenoble, France commissioned and tested a self-learning algorithm developed by the CAMERA team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). For the first time, an algorithm took control over the measurement process, without human intervention. Completely agnostic (that is, without any prior information on t…
Sept. 29, 2020
New design breaks the polarisation record – again!
Magnetic system of new PF1B polarizer
The ILL has now implemented the best neutron polariser in the world – it is more compact and cheaper than others because of its size and able to reach nearly 100% polarisation. It is set to be implemented at a number of facilit…