Review of pulsed neutron techniques for the study of amorphous solids

This paper presents some of the advantages of neutrons and pulsed neutron methods for study of amorphous materials. It compares the kinematic constraints on neutron and other spectroscopies, and describes the main features of pulsed neutron beams. The report discusses time-of-flight wide- and small-angle neutron diffractometers, chopper and inverse-geometry spectrometers, and illustrates a method of millisecond-scale time-resolved neutron diffraction.