By the 1980s, he had become a leading expert in neutron optics, publishing a review and a textbook on the subject.
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Through his experience and expertise in instrumental techniques, particularly neutron optics, Maier-Leibnitz was one of the first to realize that the neutron flux from the FRM was too low for some interesting experiments.
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It comprises all established instrument hardware such as neutron optics ( e . g . guides, apertures, lenses ), wavelength selectors ( e . g . disc choppers, velocity selectors ) and a growing variety of samples, allowing to perform virtual experiments including sophisticated setups like polarized neutrons in magnetic fields.