Instruments and Large Facilities

• Broad knowledge of DCS, Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg MD, USA.

• Working knowledge of the four-circle Enraf-Nonius CAD4 diffractometer, the STOE IPDS using monochromated Mo-K$_{\alpha}$ radiation (on single crystal samples), the STOE focusing beam transmission diffractometer equipped with a linear position sensitive detector using monochromatic Cu-K$_{\alpha 1}$ radiation (on powder samples).

• Broad knowledge of the classical X-ray diffraction photographic techniques based on single crystal samples: precession camera and Weissenberg camera (using filtered Mo-K$_{\alpha}$ and Cu-K$_{\alpha}$ radiation).

• Experience performing low-temperature measurements with cryostats, close cycle refrigerators and nitrogen-gas-flow cooling systems.

• Experience performing Time-of-flight measurements at neutron sources:

  * GLAD and SEPD-IPNS (Intense Pulsed Neutron Source), Argonne National Lab. (Chicago, IL, USA)

  * HIPPO and NPD- LANSCE (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center), Los Alamos National Laboratory, (Los Alamos, NM, USA)

• Experience performing powder diffraction at neutron sources:

  * BT1- NCNR (NIST Center for neutron research), Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  * 3T2- LLB (Laboratoire Leon Brillouin), Saclay, France

• Experience performing Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis on NG7-NCNR (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

• Attended hands-on tutorial courses on neutron and synchrotron radiation at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), CEA (Comisariat a la Energie Atomique), ILL (Institut Laue-Langevin), and the LLB (Laboratoire Leon Brillouin):

  * Small angle scattering (D22-ILL)

  * Topography (ID19-ESRF)

  * Triple-axis spectrometry (IN3-ILL and LLB)

  * Powder diffraction (DIB-ILL and LLB)

  * Time-of-flight (IN6-ILL)

  * Small angle scattering (CEA)

  * Diffuse scattering (BM2-ESRF)