Development of large-m polarizing neutron supermirror fabricated by using ion beam sputtering instrument at KURRI

摘要

Authors have succeeded in fabricating m = 3.9 Fe/Si and m = 5 Fe/Ge polarizing neutron supermirrors with high reflectivity using ion beam sputtering instrument installed at KURRI. The reflectivity of up-spin neutron are above 0.80 and 0.67 for the m = 3.9 Fe/Si and m = 5 Fe/Ge supermirrors with external magnetic field of 45 mT, in which number of layers are 1600 and 3750, respectively. The polarization efficiencies are about 0.90. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.