SEMSANS
Similar to the Talbot-Lau interferometer, the neutron beam can be spatially modulated via the magnetic Wollaston prisms and the modulation can be used to perform the spin echo modulated small angle neutron scattering (SEMSANS). Similar to SESANS, SEMSANS can also be used to measure the inter-particle correlation function of the materials. As the neutron spin is manipulated and analyzed before the sample, it would allow depolarization samples that cannot be measured by SESANS.
A real space technique performs the Fourier transform of the conventional I(Q) function [1].
The neutron beam is manipulated and analyzed before the sample. (The analyzer has been omitted.)
Modulated fringes can be generated on the detector, the contrast change due to the sample gives the correlation function.
Specifications
Length scale
50- 700nm
Magnetic sample
Yes
stronger scatter
Yes
Applications
Soft matter
- Aggregation of colloidal dispersions
- Structure of natural composites
- Structure of complex fluids
- Structure of polymer blends
Hard matter
- Grandular materials
- Structure of ceramics
- Porosity of rocks
- Grains of metal alloys
Pictures
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References
- Spin echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms, F. Li and et al, J. Appl. Cryst. (2016). 49, 55-63.
- Data Correction of Intensity Modulated Small Angle Scattering, F. Li and et al, Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 856
- TOF-SEMSANS—Time-of-flight spin-echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering, M. Strobl and et al, Journal of Applied Physics, (2012), 112, 014503.