Hungary, 1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33 +36.1.392.2642 +36.1.392.2282 1991–2024 Mirrotron Ltd.

Complete instrumentation

Neutron Guide System

Small Angle Neutron Scattering Spectrometer SANS

  • Pre- and post-selector neutron guide with housing, support, vacuum system
  • Velocity selector with power supply, driving and safety
  • Neutron beam monitor with electronics
  • Collimator system with diaphragms, multi beam option, movable neutron guide elements, moving mechanism in evacuated telescopic tube, vacuum system
  • Sample table with variable sample environment (linear sample changer, goniometer, sample thermostat cooler-heater, He cryostat, sample electromagnet with power supply)
  • Movable XY-multidetector with signal processing electronics
  • Evacuated detector vessel with displacement mechanism, vacuum system, beam-stop mechanism
  • Secondary shutter and radiation shielding
  • Electronic control, driving and data acquisition system, computer configuration and software package specification
  • Wavelength range: 0.25 - 2.00 nm
  • Momentum (q) transfer range: 0.01 - 5.0 nm-1

Time-of-Flight Polarisation Neutron Reflectometer TOF-R

Wavelength range: 0.25 - 1.25 nm
Momentum (q) transfer range: 0.05 - 3.0 nm-1
  • Secondary Beam Shutter with neutron guide
  • Tapered neutron guides QC = 3
  • Neutron beam monitor with electronics
  • Pre - and post Chopper Slit System
  • Variable resolution disk chopper system with radiation shielding
  • Supermirror analyser/polariser with RF flipper
  • Pre- and Post Sample Slit System
  • Sample table with variable sample environment, including:
    • goniometer
    • removable sample electromagnet up to 1.2 T
    • electromagnet power supply
    • sample changer for polarized / non - polarized samples
  • Detector vacuum vessel with positioning rail system
  • 2D position sensitive detector
  • Beam stop
  • Vacuum system
  • Electronic control, driving and data acquisition system

Residual Stress Neutron Diffractometer RSND

  • Double focusing Si(311) bent perfect crystals monochromator with goniometric stage and rotating shielding
  • Take off angle range: 50°-120°
  • Gauge volume from 0.5x0.5x0.5 mm3 to 5x5x20 mm3
  • Secondary Beam Shutter
  • Neutron Beam Monitor with electronics
  • Slit system in the incident and diffracted beam
  • Oscillating radial collimator
  • Sample stage load up to 500 kg; XY-range: 300 mm ±0.05 mm; Z-range: 500 mm ±0.1 mm; whole 360° turn around Z; tilt angle along X axis: ±30° for 30 kg
  • 2D position sensitive detector with stage
  • Optic adjustment system
  • Air cushion movement system
  • Electronic control, driving and data acquisition system
  • Vacuum system

Cold Neutron Triple Axis Spectrometer - CNTAS

  • Vertically focusing HOPG monochromator with goniometric stage and shileding
  • Diaphragm and Shutter (adjustable double slit system)
  • Neutron Beam Monitor with electronics
  • Soller Collimators with adjusting system and shielding
  • Sample stage:
    • Load up to 400 kg;
    • XY-range: 100 mm ±0.1 mm (horizontal direction)
    • Whole 360° turn around Z (vertical axis)
    • Tilt angle along X axis: ±15°
    • size d=500mm
  • Beam stop
  • Analyzer stage with shielding
  • Ge111 and HOPG Analyzer units with goniometric stage
  • 2D position sensitive detector with stage
  • DAQ and QAE
  • Operation and measurement software

Time of Flight Small Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument VSANS

  • Neutron guide system installed on cold neutron guide @ BNC Budapest No 3B
  • Monochromator: Chopper system, one counter-rotating pair of pulse definition chopper, one wavelength limiting and one frame overlap chopper.
  • Detector: 2D position sensitive 200 x 200 mm2, filled with 3He gas, 256 x 256 pixels with 0.7 mm x 0.7 mm pixel size
  • Collimation: 3.7 m
  • Sample to detector distance: 4.3 m
  • Incident wavelenght range: 0.3 - 0.74 Å 
  • Scattering vector range: 0.0003 ... 0.03 Å-1
  • Scattering vector resolution: 0.00005 ... Å-1