Thursday, January 15, 2009

Synchrotron Sources

BESSRC, CARS, CMC, COM-CAT, DND-CAT,
HP-CAT, IMMYT-CAT, MHATT-CAT, MRCAT, MU-CAT,
PNC-CAT, SGX-CAT, SRI-CAT, UNICAT

ID1, ID2a, ID2b, ID3, ID9, ID10a, ID10b, ID11,
ID12a, ID12b, ID13, ID14, ID15a, ID15b, ID16,
ID17, ID18, ID19, ID20, ID21, ID22, ID24, ID26,
ID28, ID30, ID32, BM5, BM14, BM16, BM29

CRG Beamlines:
BM2 (D2AM), BM20 (ROBL), BM25 (SpLine),
BM26 (DUBBLE), BM28 (UK), BM30B (FAME),
BM32 (IF)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Neutron Reflectometry Facility

Neutron Reflectivity Data Analysis Programs

The following list provides information about computer programs used
for the analysis of neutron reflectometry data. In some cases copies of the software are made
available to other users. The Internet pages may provide further details.

—Neutron Reflection Analysis DRYDOC and LPROF by Adrian Rennie
http://www.ch.kcl.ac.uk/kclchem/staff/arr/drydoc.htm
—AFIT written by Paul Thirtle (3.1) is available from Oxford
http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/~rkt/links.html
—Description of Norm Berk’s programs and papers
http://rrdjazz.nist.gov/staff/nfb/NREF.html
—Description by Jeff Penfold of programs at ISIS
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/largescale/crisp/documents/datareduction.htm
—SURFace — A Package for Analysis of Reflectivity Data, J. R. P. Webster
and S. Langridge, RAL
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/largescale/surf/technical/surface.htm
—Neutron reflection analysis programs used at the ILL
http://www.ill.fr/lss/data_treatment/REF_analysis.html
—Winfit and Superfit Software for X-Ray Reflectivity, Polarized Neutron
Reflectivity and Off-specular Polarized Neutron Scattering, A. Rühm, J.
Major, B. Toperverg, MPI f. Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.mf.mpg.de/en/abteilungen/dosch/software/software_en.shtml
—Calculate neutron reflectivity on the Internet. Alan Munter has provided
an Internet site at the NIST Center for Neutron Research
http://www.ncNREF.nist.gov/resources/reflcalc.html
—NIST reflectivity analysis packages:
http://www.ncNR.nist.gov/programs/reflect/data_reduction/software/
—Reflec95 (for W95/NT) and ReflecMCA (Mathematica) programs for
simulation of reflection from magnetic layers available at the LLB,
Saclay, France
http://www-llb.cea.fr/prism/programs/programs.html
—Description of Parrat32 for multilayer reflectivity calculation and fits.
Available from BENSC, Germany.
—Description of SERF Spreadsheet Software from the University of
Delaware
http://www.che.udel.edu/SERF/
—Homepage for GUIDE/WALL programs to calculate transport in
neutron guides and reflectivity of interfaces. These are written by H.M.Shimizu (RIKEN) and Y. Suda (Hokkaido University).
http://stj.riken.go.jp/~shimizu/nfl/guide/
—IMD — IDL package by D.L. Windt for optical reflectivity calculations
http://cletus.phys.columbia.edu/~windt/idl/imd/
—A program for analysing grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering
on nanostructures by R. Lazzi, F. Leroy, C. Revenant-Brizard and G.
Renaud, Grenoble.
http://www.esrf.fr/computing/scientific/joint_projects/IsGISAXS/isgisaxs.htm

Monday, January 12, 2009

Spallation Neutron source and lecture

European Spallation Neutron Source:

Spallation Neutron Source Video Lecture:
Right click and then click on the Play

Friday, January 9, 2009

Physics for Future Presidents Video Lectures

Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Video Lectures

Synchrotron Radiation for Materials Science Applications Video Lectures

Magnetic material video lectures

Novel functional magnetic materials based on magneto-structural transitions:

Science in High Magnetic Field:

Dynamics of nanoscopic magnetic clusters in (Pr,Ca)MnO3 thin films observed by ultrafast magnetooptics:

Science of Rainbow

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Nanoscale Video lectures

Online video lecture on Nanoscale
1: California NanoSystem Institute
2: Stanford Center for probing the nanoscale
will add some more soon.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

x-ray and neutron reflectivity program

Here are links to x-ray and neutron reflectivity programs.


X-ray server at APS
Parratt32
Reflred
Reflfit and refpol
Motofit
other reflectivity program list
Yanera
StochFit

GenX

ESRF software link
A nice collection link from Uppsala University
Murex
Another link
Neutron reflectivity reading from Oxford materials