KPD is a conventional double axis diffractometer for powder specimens. Beam quality of this machine is very good but the data taking efficiency is not so good because number of counter is not so much.KPD is scheduled to be upgraded near future. Special features 1. Incident beam collimation is very good as this machine is installed at the thermal neutron guide(T-1)of small angnlar divergence and the monochromator is vertical bent germanium crystal. 2. All attatchments mentioned in the"attatchment"section are available for this machine. 3. Control program is KID. Plan of Upgrading Concept of the upgrading is "High Efficiency with Medium Resolution" powder diffractometer. The following things are included in the plan; 1. Multi-counter system 2. Sample changer 3. Data analyzing system 4. Electric furnace up to 2000K etc.
Contact person : Masayoshi OOHASHI Institute for Materials Research Tohoku University
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