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Innovation depends on diversity and inclusiveness. Although the gender balance in scientific organisations is slowly improving, women remain particularly poorly represented in many other areas of activity, and particularly so at decision-making level. On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) reaffirms its commitment to equal gender opportunities, a…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

By Araceli LOPEZ-MARTENS, CSNSM, Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, France

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…

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.

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…