Industrial Use of Neutrons

A good tradition exists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht to co-operate with industry, authorities and other institutions on the base of flexibly created co-operating contracts or just of orders. At GEMS special services are offered to partners using the unique capabilities of photons (synchrotron radiation) and neutrons:

• The characterisation of structural and functional materials such as metals, ceramics, polymers, soft matter and thin films, as well as properties like textures, residual stress and magnetism, etc. is needed by developers in the steel and metal industry, in the chemical industry, in the information technology to design e.g. new alloys, polymers, nanocomposites or data memories. The GEMS instruments are suitable tools for these purposes.

Orders from industry and others will be processed by experienced personnel. The costs depend on the necessary expenditure.