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The Applied Science group operates the recently expanded suite of ILL imaging instruments, together with instruments for strain scanning and irradiation. It includes dedicated resources for enhanced industrial collaborations. It will benefit from and enhance the increasingly important relationship between neutron scattering and industry as companies seek more efficient and sustainable methods to develop and manufacture materials, ensure quality control and optimise manufacturing processes.
The group includes the imaging instruments NeXT, MoTo, PorTo and ThRILL, as well as the SALSA strain scanning instrument and the TENIS irradiation station.
The recently appointed leader of the Applied Science Instrument Group is Markus Strobl, currently vice-president of the International Society of Neutron Radiography, ISNR.
TENIS is fully dedicated to thermal neutron irradiation of electronic devices within the framework of the Large-Scale Instrument Characterisation programme of the IRTNanoelec.
SALSA is the ILL stress imager dedicated to the determination of residual stresses in a broad range of applications in terms of components and materials. It is designed for diffraction measurements in "real" engineering components and optimised for stress determination in metallic components.
PorTo is a cold neutron tomography instrument optimised for high-resolution imaging. Its configuration supports both neutron radiography and tomography. The instrument is well suited for high-resolution studies of static samples as well as operando and in-situ experiments, accommodating laboratory-scale setups.
MoTo (Monochromatic Tomography) is an instrument that provides monochromatic and advanced imaging modes in a branch of NeXT. MoTo is designed for long experiments with advanced contrast options to measure independently of NeXT.
NeXT (Neutron and X-ray Tomography) is a cold neutron imaging instrument with additional X-rays imaging capabilities. These two modalities can be operated simultaneously.
