Design of low profile sample stage

Issue title: DENIM VIII 2019

Guest editors: Nancy J. Hadad

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Cooper, Simon^{; *}

Affiliations: UKRI STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Spallation Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK. E-mail: [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: The Italian Neutron Experimental Station, or INES for short, instrument beamline at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Spallation Source recently underwent an upgrade to its sample positioning area to improve the sample handling capability and capacity of the instrument. INES is a powder diffractometer instrument devoted to materials characterization and cultural heritage studies. Due to the types of samples received for cultural heritage studies the instrument scientists wanted to maximize the height of samples that could be scanned with the instrument. This paper covers the in-house design and delivery of a new, two axis, linear positioning stage for INES that due to the addition of a new linear height stage, needed to be as low profile as possible to give the instrument scientists the sample capacity they required.

Keywords: Design, neutron, sample stage, motion

DOI: 10.3233/JNR-200169

Journal: Journal of Neutron Research, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 393-401, 2020