Liquid Surface Spectrometers
X-rays
Europe
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Surface and Interface Science Group
Surface Diffraction Beamline suitable for GIXD from liquids
Soft Condensed Matter Group
ID10A TROIKA I+III TROIKA I accommodates GIXD studies on liquid surfaces
ID10B TROIKA II suitable for both vertical and horizontal scattering planes
Materials Science Group
ID15A/B High-energy scattering beamline accommodates a reflectometer suitable for liquid surfaces and buried interfaces: reference1 reference 2
North America
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Liquid Surface Spectrometer at X22-B, NSLS
Liquid Surface Spectrometer at X19-C, NSLS
Argonne National Laboratory: Liquid and Soft-Matter Surface Scattering Special Interest Group
Ames Laboratory horizontal diffractometer MUCAT, 6-ID-B, APS
Liquid Surface Spectrometer at CMC-XOR, 9-ID-B, APS
Liquid Surface Spectrometer at ChemMatCARS, 15-ID, APS
Neutron reflectometers
North America
Canadian Neutron Beam Center
D3 Reflectometer
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center
SPEAR (Surface Profile Analysis Reflectometer) -- horizontal surface reflectometer
Asterix: vertical surface reflectomter with polarization analysis
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Center for Neutron Research
AND/R (Advanced Neutron Diffractometer/Reflectomter) ** reference
NG1 Cold neutron reflectometer with polarized beam option
NG7 Cold neutron reflectometer - horizontal sample geometry
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Spallation Neutron Source
Liquids (horizontal surface) Reflectometer
Magnetism (vertical surface) Reflectometer
Europe
Institut Laue-Langevin
ADAM (Advanced Diffractometer for the Analysis of Materials)
D17 Reflectometer ** reference
EVA (EVAnescent wave diffractometer)
FIGARO (Fluid Interfaces Grazing Angles ReflectOmeter) more info Installation planned for January 2008, commissioning in March 2008
Laboratoire Leon Brillouin
Eros: Time of Flight Reflectometer
Prism (Polarised Reflectomter for the Investigation of Surface Magnetism): Two-Axis Polarised Reflectometer with Polarisation Analysis
Hahn-Meitner Institute
V14 reflectometer, Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin
Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) Munich
KWS 3This focussed, high-resolution SANS instrument will also be adaptable for (liquid surface) reflectometry
MARIA (MAgnetic Reflectometer with high Incident Angle
N-REX+Suitable for vertical or horizontal scattering planes, also works with an x-ray reflectomtery system, and capabilities for Spin-Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering (SERGIS).
REFSANS Reflectometer for the analysis of soft and fluid interfaces and surfaces
ISIS
CRISP and SURF
Australia
Bragg Institute
PLATYPUS
Reflectivity practitioners
Mathias Losche and Biological Physics Group, Supramolecular Structures Lab, Canegie Mellon University
Peter Pershan's (X-Ray) Group Harvard University
Tim Salditt and Juergen Thieme's Group at the Institut fuer Roentgenphysik, University of Goettingen
R. K. Thomas and Group, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Tools for computing and analyzing reflectivity
Reflective X-ray Optics page for David Windt's IMD tool (runs on IDL)
NCNR Reflectometry software from the NIST Center for Neutron Research
Parratt32 or the Reflectivity Tool software from the Hahn-Meitner-Institut
Motofit software for fitting x-ray and neutron reflectivity data developed at ANSTO, runs on Igor
Open source MATLAB code for profile structure reconstruction from x-ray or neutron reflectivity as described in "Iterative reconstruction of a refractive-index profile from x-ray or neutron reflectivity measurements," Thorsten Hohage, Klaus Giewekemeyer, Tim Salditt, Phys. Rev. E 77:051604 (2008)
Meetings
NSLS-II and NSLS Light Sources Directorate Planning Workshops at Brookhaven National Lab, various dates from 2008.01.10-2008.02.12
NSLS-II Liquid Interface Scattering: Report from the July 2007 workshop breakout session E. DiMasi, M. Fukuto, B. Ocko and M. Schlossman
Workshop on Scientific Opportunities in Soft Matter and Biophysics at NSLS-II: Summary September 5-6, 2003, Student Activity Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Other tools
Datasqueeze software by Paul Heiney allows visualization and analysis of 2-D data. Mostly intended for SAXS, can also be useful for GID data.
Computing for Science and the Computation Lab at Institut Laue-Langevin offers software for data analysis and education
Software tools compiled by the Institut Laue-Langevin
Tools for IGOR users includes packages for analyzing reflectivity data and SANS data
World Directory of SANS Instruments
neutron@aps.anl.gov Listserve for folks interested in neutron scattering
Reference materials
X-ray Data Booklet from the Center for X-ray Optics and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (The little orange book!)
X-ray Interactions with Matter: optical properties of materials from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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"The Application of the Specular Reflection of Neutrons to the Study of Surfaces and Interfaces," J. Penfold, R. K. Thomas J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2 1369-1412 (1990).
"Principles and applications of grazing incidence X-ray and neutron scattering from ordered molecular monolayers at the air-water interface," Jens Als-Nielsen, Didier Jacquemain, Kristian Kjaer, Franck Leveiller, Meir Lahav and Leslie Leiserowitz Physics Reports 246(5) 251-313 (1994)
