Sharp - Cold neutron time-focussing time-of-flight spectrometer

Sharp is a time-focussing time-of-flight spectrometer designed for quasielastic and inelastic scattering for incident wavelengths in the range of 4 to 6 Å.

Applications

Study of dynamics and relaxation properties in condensed matter exploiting both nuclear and magnetic scattering.

Vibrational density of states of crystalline and amorphous solids
Dynamics of soft condensed matter such as polymers, proteins, biological membranes and gels
Local and long range diffusion of liquids, solutions and confined systems
Properties of quantum liquids, Fermi and non-Fermi systems
Phase transitions and quantum critical phenomena in polycrystals and single crystals
Spin dynamics in high-T_c superconductors
Properties of crystal field splittings