What is it about?
Absorption correction is often a major problem when measuring samples that strongly absorb neutrons. While this is usually done computationally, it often fails. It is even more difficult to handle in a time-of-flight neutron diffractometer, where wavelength is varied as a parameter. This time, we experimentally performed absorption correction using vanadium.
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Why is it important?
We experimentally performed the first absorption correction of europium compound powders using incoherent scattering of a vanadium plate at a time-of-flight neutron diffractometer. This method applies to a variety of materials with strong neutron absorption properties.
Perspectives
I hope this article will help you try this method when you've previously been unable to analyze data properly due to strong neutron absorption.
Akinori Hoshikawa
Ibaraki Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Experimental absorption corrections for highly absorbing europium compounds in powder neutron diffraction, Journal of Applied Crystallography, March 2026, International Union of Crystallography,
DOI: 10.1107/s1600576726001044.
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