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ASP Online Lecture series (The African School of Physics) - Synchrotron and neutron based diffraction and spectroscopic techniques


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Certain experimental analytic facilities are too large and expensive to be set up by individual research groups or universities and are instead established and supported at national or international level. Among such national facilities, those for synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering are particularly useful for the study of the structure, chemical composition, dynamics and magnetic and electronic properties of materials. This course first outlines the principles of interaction of powerful X-rays with materials and describes how these principles may then be exploited in crystallography and chemical analysis with information on valence states and local chemical environment at sub-micron resolution. Neutrons provide a complementary probe that is particularly sensitive and informative about light elements such as hydrogen, about magnetic structure and about atomic and molecular motion relevant to chemical diffusion and magnetic excitations.

“the power of photon and neutron in the quest to solve societal challenges”

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Harrison (Diamond Light Source Ltd, Chief Exec.) OBE, MA, DPhil, FRSE, FRSC
Read here the speaker’s biography.

When: November 24, 26 ; December 1 ,3 , 8 and 15

at 15:30 CET (16:30 UTC)

Register via the Indico link (same zoom link for each lecture):

The next four lectures of this second series will be taught in January 2021 by European Spallation Source experts, introducing more key aspects of large Research Infrastructure as tools for innovation.

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