China’s neutron instrument for microscopic structure and dynamics observation passes acceptance review

China’s first high-energy direct-geometry inelastic neutron-scattering time-of-flight spectrometer has passed its official acceptance review, Sun Yat-sen University announced. The advanced instrument acts like an ultra-high-speed camera, capturing material structures and atomic or molecular motion at the picosecond scale. Using neutrons, which penetrate deeply and carry no charge, it can directly measure microscopic dynamics through changes in neutron speed and direction after inelastic collisions. The spectrometer will support research in fields such as superconductivity, quantum magnetism, ion diffusion, and broader studies in physics, chemistry, and biology.

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