The Current Status of IBARAKI Material Design Diffractometer

Abstract

Here we describe a neutron powder diffractometer, iMATERIA, at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility in J-PARC. iMATERIA (IBARAKI Materials Design Diffractometer) has been constructed to be a high throughput versatile diffractometer enabling materials scientists to use it like a chemical analytical instrument in their material development processes. Typical measuring time to obtain 'Rietveld-quality' data is several minutes for the sample size of laboratory X-ray diffractometer. iMATERIA is already open for academic and industrial users.