Present-day high-intensity and high-resolution neutron diffraction and neutron scattering under high pressure

Abstract

The use of neutron scattering continues to evolve quickly both in traditional and in new fields. Basically, it is connected with general technical progress and realization of new ideas in the spectrometer performance. The principal event of the last years is the appearance of third-generation pulsed neutron sources. It is only at these sources that the construction of new spectrometers can be realized, which would offer new possibilities in high-pressure experiments: widening of pressure range and improvement of experimental data quality. In the lecture, general problems of elastic neutron scattering and new opportunities for experiments under high pressure are discussed, and examples of studies are given. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.