AND/R: Advanced Neutron Diffractometer/reflectometer for Investigation of Thin Films and Multilayers for the Life Sciences

Overview

Journal Rev Sci Instrum

Publisher American Institute of Physics

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics

Date 2011 Sep 30

PMID 21892232

Citations 61

Authors

Joseph A Dura

Donald J Pierce

Charles F Majkrzak

Nicholas C Maliszewskyj

Duncan J McGillivray

Mathias Losche

Kevin V ODonovan

Mihaela Mihailescu

Ursula Perez-Salas

David L Worcester

Stephen H White

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Abstract

An elastic neutron scattering instrument, the advanced neutron diffractometer/reflectometer (AND/R), has recently been commissioned at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. The AND/R is the centerpiece of the Cold Neutrons for Biology and Technology partnership, which is dedicated to the structural characterization of thin films and multilayers of biological interest. The instrument is capable of measuring both specular and nonspecular reflectivity, as well as crystalline or semicrystalline diffraction at wave-vector transfers up to approximately 2.20 Å(-1). A detailed description of this flexible instrument and its performance characteristics in various operating modes are given.

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