Neutron Scattering in Condensed‐Matter Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.2813698
Since its discovery 50 years ago, the neutron has commanded public attention and respect. As an intermediary in nuclear fission, it is woven into the political fabric of modern life and seems destined to remain so. But the neutron plays many other, less prominent and controversial roles as well. It has, for example, technological applications in fields as diverse as logging oil wells, detecting art forgeries and doping electronic semiconductor materials, as D. Allan Bromley has reviewed in these pages.
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More about the Authors
John D. Axe. Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Robert M. Nicklow. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
