Wombat (high-intensity powder diffractometer)

On Wombat, the focus is on commissioning sample-environment apparatus and running real-time experiments.

Ross Whitfield (below), an honours student with Darren Goossens at the Australian National University in Canberra, looked at sintering processes of steel using the vacuum furnace.

The data (below) show clearly the appearance and disappearance of various phases over a ramp/hold/cooling cycle of several hours, with data taken at one minute intervals.