Techniques and Equipment

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht builds and operates outstanding neutron scattering instruments at the outstation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht at the FRM II in Garching. The TOF reflectometer and GISANS instrument REFSANS  is maintained by staff of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht as well as the texture projects on the residual stress and texture diffractometer STRESS-SPEC. They are also part of our neutron scattering activities. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht also contributes a substantial proportion of the construction of the new SANS-1 instrument at the FRM-II, which will be in operation in 2011.

For the complementary use of synchrotron radiation in the area of Materials Research Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht operates the HARWI II beamline at the storage ring DORIS III at the outstation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht at DESY. HARWI II has been optimized for texture, residual stress measurements and imaging of materials with high-energy X-ray radiation from a wiggler. At the new high brilliance synchrotron radiation source of the third generation PETRA III two new beamlines are built and operated, the High Energy Materials Research Beamline HEMS - optimized for diffraction and tomography experiments at high energies - and the Imaging Beamline which is optimized for tomographic investigations.

In collaboration with EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht also developed and built the small-angle scattering instrument BioSAXS for biological samples at PETRA III.