First phase
New instruments completed during the first phase (2001-2008)
SALSA
The new strain imager for residual stress determination, built in collaboration with Manchester University
VIVALDI
The new Very Intense Vertical Axis Laue Diffractometer has pushed back frontiers in crystallography
LADI III
a neutron Laue diffractometer that uses neutron sensitive Imaging Plates (IP) as the detector
FIGARO
(Fluid Interfaces Grazing Angles ReflectOmeter)
is a high flux, flexible resolution, time-of-flight reflectometer with a vertical scattering plane, to be commissioned in Spring 2009
MiniBall / Lohengrin
An array of germanium detectors has improved gamma-ray spectroscopy efficiency by a factor of three for single gamma-ray events, and by an order of magnitude for doubly coincident events
FlatCone
the multianalyzer unit for the ILL three-axis spectrometers
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Upgrades of instruments completed during the first phase (2001-2008)
D2B
The high-resolution powder diffractometer has been equipped with a 2D detector and 128 Soller collimators, improving both signal and background
D3C
The new modular polarised neutron instrument
D7
The new array of polarising supermirrors has improved count-rate by a factor of 35
D11
This worldwide unique 80 m SANS instrument appears now reborn
D19
A new large solid-angle banana detector
D22
The fast small-angle detector for SANS operates at a data rate of up to 2 MHz
IN5
Both primary and secondary spectrometers have been totally rebuilt, to allow a new range of experiments, essentially in single crystal scattering
IN20
The flat-cone geometry analyzer allows excitations in 3D to be measured with unprecedented speed