Scientific Review: The Single Crystal Diffractometer RESI

The single crystal diffractometer RESI (REciprocal Space Investigator) provides powerful techniques for structure research using thermal neutrons. With its unique setup of a kappa-goniometer and a neutron sensitive imaging plate, it is very well-suited for recording Bragg data, in particular, on samples with large unit cells, incommensurate structures, phase transitions, or dense patterns of reflections (quasicrystals). It is also designed to explore extended disorder diffuse scattering. Alternatively, an Eulerian craddle can be used for heavier sample environment or an analyzer option to separate the purely elastic scattering.