The Institut Laue-Langevin is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology.
The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is a European intergovernmental research centre based in Grenoble, France, operating the most intense neutron source in the world.
The ILL is operated by the 3 founding countries – France, Germany and the UK – in association with its scientific partner countries. Belgium, in a consortium with Sweden (BELSWENI), became a scientific member in 2008 for a first period of 5 years.
The ILL was founded in 1967 to provide scientific communities in its member countries with a unique flux of neutrons and matching instruments (some 40) for the study of condensed matter in fields which range from structural biology, chemistry to materials, nuclear physics, magnetism...
More than 640 experiments, selected by scientific review committees, are completed each year by about 1400 visiting scientists bearing witness to the scientific success of the facility.
BELSPO created a national accompanying committee "European sources for synchrotron radiation and neutrons" (NAC SRN) with representatives of the concerned Belgian research institutes in order to optimise the use of ESRF and ILL.
Laurent Ghys
Federal, Interfederal and International Coordination
