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Reflection of Neutrons from an Optical Grating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Alan E. Munter
Affiliation:
Argonne National Lab, MSD-223, Argonne, IL 60439 Department of Nuclear Engineering, 103 S. Goodwin Ave, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
S. Adenwalla
Affiliation:
Argonne National Lab, MSD-223, Argonne, IL 60439
G.P. Felcher
Affiliation:
Argonne National Lab, MSD-223, Argonne, IL 60439
X.L. Zhou
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 24-215A, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

Specular and off-specular neutron intensities were measured at grazing incidence from an optical grating. The periodicity of the grating was determined from the locations of the intensity peaks in the off-specular data. An analysis of the widths of the off-specular intensity peaks showed that the effect of the coherence length of the neutron beam on the determination of a surface length scale of approximately 30 μm was negligible when compared to that of the instrument resolution.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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