Featured Stories - SNS’s NOMAD hosts user workshop
Jorg Neuefeind, instrument scientist for NOMAD, and Anthony Arul Ral (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India) prepare a material sample to be measured during the NOMAD workshop.
A recent user workshop at the Spallation Neutron Source hosted 30 participants from universities and research institutions across the United States and from India and Germany. The workshop provided potential users of the Nanoscale Ordered Materials Diffractometer (NOMAD) at SNS with an overview of the instrument’s capabilities, with an emphasis on hands-on experiments. Attendees were invited to provide samples of their own to measure using NOMAD.
NOMAD, which entered the full user program at the SNS this year, is designed for the study of materials ranging from dense gases to crystals with long-range atomic order. The instrument offers wide detector coverage combined with good resolution and speed—for a typical sample, highly accurate results can be obtained in minutes of even seconds.
