Hi, in the ILL sub-committees we would like to offer such a possibility ! However beamtime is limited. And even using "older" instruments to achieve this "routine" task is nowadays compromised: the ILL plans to increase its cold neutrons capabilities, somehow at the detriment (we do not really know for now cause no real complete project has been carried out, nor incidences exhibited) of the diffraction instruments. I hope to be false here, but in anycase ILL shutdown until next July will compromise any voluntee in this direction starting from this autumn.
daniel Chairman of "Crystallography" Subcommittee > Hi Paolo, > > Congrats ! I think this is great ! Believe it or not, if you mention this > at the ILL the don't get too excited about in the committees. Really sad. > > Best, > D. > > > > -- > Dimitri Argyriou > Hahn Meitner Institut > >> Dear Colleague, >> >> Starting from cycle 2004/03 (April-May 2005), ISIS has started to offer >> a >> "Measure-by-Courier" powder diffraction access mechanism to the GEM >> diffractometer (XPRESS). This mechanism is aimed at new and infrequent >> users, research programmes requiring only limited and/or occasional >> neutron beamtime and chemistry programmes operating a tight loop between >> synthesis and structural characterisation. A total of 1 beam day per >> cycle >> on the GEM powder diffractometer will be devoted to this programme. >> >> Initially, samples will only be measured at room temperature and in >> standard containers, but access to sample environment is currently being >> planned.Fully reduced and corrected high-quality data, ready for >> Rietveld >> refinement, will be provided to the user, together with example files >> and >> guidelines for refinement. The user is expected to carry out the >> structural analysis with minimal assistance. >> The next XPRESS run is scheduled for >> TUESDAY, JULY 19 2005 >> >> To access XPRESS and read the full instructions, please follow the link >> on >> the ISIS proposal page http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/applying/. The system >> is >> designed to be self explanatory. >> Your Login ID (email address) and password is the same as for the normal >> proposal submission. If you are not currently an ISIS user, you will be >> asked to register on line prior to submission of an XPRESS request. >> I very much looking forward to receiving your first XPRESS requests. >> Paolo Radaelli >> ******************************* >> Prof. Paolo G. Radaelli >> Crystallography Group Leader >> ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory >> Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire >> >> OX11 0QX, United Kingdom >> >> Phone: +44-1235-445685 >> FAX: +44-1235-445642 >> *********************************************************** >> >> > > > -- Daniel Chateigner Professeur CRISMAT-ENSICAEN Bd. M. Juin 14050 Caen, France http://www.ecole.ensicaen.fr/~chateign/danielc/
