An $8.5 million science deal between ANSTO?s Bragg Institute and the National Science Council of Taiwan, was signed today in Taipei, allowing Australian researchers to further expand their scientific capabilities.
This is the first major scientific deal to be struck between institutes from Australia and Taiwan, and covers the installation and operation of a 9th neutron-beam instrument at the OPAL reactor: a cold-neutron 3-axis spectrometer, designed to study the dynamics of electronic materials in the energy range of meV and below.
The Taiwan investment adds particular value to the area of high-technology electronic materials science where Taiwan is strong and in which Australia can also reap benefits.
Taiwanese scientists will be guaranteed access to the Bragg Institute?s facilities equivalent to 70% use of the instrument. The remaining time will be available to the Australian and international research community. The instrument will take around four years to build, and the agreement lasts for five years from the instrument?s commissioning, renewable for five year periods after that.
In parallel with this announcement, Drs. Chun-Chuen Yang and Sheng-Yun Wu (National Central University, Chungli), shown on the right outside the OPAL Neutron Guide Hall, joined us to start work on the conceptual design of their cold-neutron 3-axis spectrometer.
Published: 08/06/2005