The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source has completed installation of another eagerly awaited analytical tool. SEQUOIA will be a star performer in the SNS's bevy of instruments for materials research, providing unprecedented, high-resolution neutron scattering studies of the dynamics of atoms and molecules in materials. Researchers in the condensed matter and materials sciences will have with SEQUOIA unprecedented ability to analyze and understand the dynamics behind high-temperature superconductors, quantum and molecular magnetism and ferroelectric, piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials. "SEQUOIA, like all of the SNS's advanced instruments, will stay on the cutting edge of neutron instrumentation for years to come, providing a huge leap in our ability to understand fundamental interactions in the advanced materials of today and of tomorrow," said Dean Myles, who directs Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Neutron Scattering Science Division and Center for Structural Molecular Biology. The work is funded by DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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