Neutron diffraction topography

Observation of chirality domains in terbium by polarized neutron diffraction topography

2014 We have carried out the first observation of spiral spin or chirality domains, in a single crystal of terbium in its helimagnetic phase, by polarized neutron diffraction topography. The different domain structures observed are a function of the thermal history of the sample. When the sample is warmed from the ferromagnetic phase one observes stripe domains with long axis perpendicular to t...

Neutron Diffraction Experiments

This ISEN award supported research toward improving the energy efficiency of actuators. The focused research objective was to develop next-generation shape memory alloy (SMA) models and structures, to demonstrate this new technology in targeted near-term applications on airplanes. Two research avenues were pursued to enable development of this new technology: 1) neutron diffraction experiments ...

Biological Neutron Diffraction

Magnetic structure of greigite (Fe3S4) probed by neutron powder diffraction and polarized neutron diffraction

[1] We have investigated greigite (Fe3S4) using a combination of neutron powder diffraction and polarized neutron diffraction to give the first unambiguous assignment of its magnetic structure. Our results confirm that greigite has a collinear ferrimagnetic structure with antiferromagnetic coupling between the tetrahedral (A) and octahedral (B) sites. Our analysis also indicates that greigite d...

Fast Neutron Irradiated Magnetite and Haematite Investigated by Neutron Diffraction

In this paper, we present new experimental results about crystallographic and magnetic properties obtained on magnetite Fe,04 and haematite a-FqO, samples irradiated by fast neutrons. Polycrystalline rods were irradiated at 350K by fast neutrons inside the core of Melusine nuclear reactor (CENG) in Grenoble at various fluences (4 lO", 9.2 1019 and 20 10'' neutronslcm~). The irradiated samples h...