Laboratory for Materials Analysis by Nuclear Analytical Methods at Nuclear Physics Institute

摘要

This article describes the Laboratory for Materials Analysis by different nuclear analytical methods at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (hereafter NPI), situated north of Prague (Czech Republic), in ?e?. In the Czech Republic, the Ion Beam Analyses (IBA) were first performed in the early 1980s on the old NPI Van de Graaff accelerator. Installation of the Tandetron 4130MC accelerator in 2005 cleared the way for further development and broader dissemination of IBA methods. Since that time, a new laboratory has been established with all common IBA techniques and a high energy implantation device. Devices for prompt,neutron-based analytical methods, Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) and Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis(PGAA), were installed on a horizontal, external neutron beam from the LVR-15 research reactor (formerly Nuclear Research Institute ?e?, a.s., nowadays Research Centre ?e?, Ltd.) in the 1980s and different modes of Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), making use of the same nuclear reactor, have been utilized at NPI since the end of the 1960s.