An Oregon State University graduate student has successfully turned her participation in a two-day POWGEN Neutron Diffraction workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source into a published paper in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry. Participants at the workshop in September were invited to bring their own samples for analysis on the time of flight diffractometer. They received training on the instrument and then were taught how to collect and analyze the data. Rosa Grajczyk, a second-year PhD student in chemistry working on structural properties of new materials, brought a solid solution of indium-gallium-magnesium-oxide to the workshop as part of her thesis work. "The amount of detail that went into the workshop was incredible," Grajczyk said, "and I was facilitated by the helpfulness of everyone at the facility." Her paper on the lattice structure of the new material was accepted in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry. - Agatha Bardoel, 865.574.0644, March 14, 2012
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