After quite a long absence of neutrons at the MLZ due to the Corona pandemic, we unfortunately faced a technical issue with the cold source of the FRM II in spring this year. Careful analysis of the situation yielded that the cold source had to be removed and will be replaced after a transition period of “thermal operation”.

This particularly affects all instruments in the Neutron Guide Hall West. Detailed simulations of the neutron flux at the instruments anticipated in the thermal scenario show that a user programme for the “cold instruments” starting in March 2022 will be possible. Updated information on the specific instruments is provided at our MLZ home page, and you are welcome to discuss with our scientists at the MLZ User Meeting next week.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming our users again soon! In order to mitigate possible effects of the pandemic on travel plans we are well prepared for the many facets of remote collaboration before, during and after your experiments, which gives all of us an optimistic perspective for the next year!

Prof. Dr. Martin Müller (Scientific Director MLZ)

The MLZ will run without cold source for the next time. What does this really mean for the instruments?

No neutrons do not mean that there are no news from the instruments! Just visit the gallery and learn about some of them in a short way.

Let’s introduce anaklasis, a new Python software package that simplifies model building and elaborate statistical analysis for specular reflectivity data sets.

Several improvements had been made at KWS-3, all aiming for more instrument flexibility.

Meet the new dilatometer at STRESS-SPEC and SANS-1!

How did an instrument experience the last months? Let’s ask RESEDA, our resonance spin echo spectrometer! (And why does its instrument scientist Johanna K. Jochum sit on that box???)

TEM, the Transmission Electron Microscope facility, moved to one of our new buildings. Our gallery shows how tricky this was!

And another move: MBE; the Molecular Beam Epitaxy facility, also left the first floor of Neutron Guide Hall East in direction to its new lab.

Clamp cells at HEiDi – part of a bigger BMBF-project at MLZ regarding high pressure sample environment.

Learn more about the Next generation Horizontal SANS Magnet (NHSM) for quantum phenomena in nanostructures and correlated electron systems.

Next phase for LaDiff and FIREPOD: They were disassembled at their current hometown Berlin before traveling to Bavaria.

There are many deliveries to MLZ each day – but this one was outstanding: The PERC magnet arrived!

Nested focussing devices are already used fo X-ray telescopes. But what are they doing at MIRA?

There are several updates at the coincidence Doppler-broadening spectrometer at NEPOMUC!

NeutroSense, a project aiming for event-mode detection, will make experiments at imaging instruments like ANTARES far better.

The robot at STRESS-SPEC got an upgrade: A laser furnace!

Mirijam Zobel, the new chair of the Institute of Crystallography at RWTH Aachen University, is thus also the new head of HEiDi and POLI.

PUMA, the thermal three axes spectrometer, has a new cooperation partner: The Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) took over from Göttingen University.

At MLZ, we have new colleagues at the Physics Lab, the Advanced Materials Group, KWS-2 and our PR team!

At the IUCr 25 at Prague, crystallographers met in a hybride format – and the MLZ was there with a booth!

The MLZ was also present at virtual booths: At the SKM21-Meeting of DPG and at the IUCr25, for example.

Another challenging year lies behind all of us – and neutron users have not only to deal with the pandemic’s restrictions…

The MLZ has presented this year’s prize for instrumentation and scientific use just over the fence: To Peter Böni!

More than 50 years ago, researchers discovered a pronounced phase transition in strontium iron oxide at room temperature. However, what exactly happens in this process at the atomic level has been unclear ever since.

An international research team at the FRM II has developed a new imaging technology.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich succeeded in demonstrating the existence of a novel nanoswitch with the aid of neutrons. .

Young researchers wanted: MLZ is awarding 15 postdoctoral positions for two years via the EU funded Global Neutron Scientists (GNeuS) project. Applications can be submitted until January 15^th, 2022.