Complementary to synchrotron-radiation studies, neutron scattering and diffraction methods are of utmost importance for probing the structure and dynamics of matter at an atomic, molecular and mesoscopic level, however today often suffering from comparatively low source strength. This will change with next generation pulsed spallation neutron sources with MW average proton beam power, which will allow accumulating and analyzing for each neutron pulse a large wavelength band by time of flight. For imaging and diffraction experiments at the strongest projected spallation source ESS in the current EU Joint Research Activity DETNI large-area time-of-flight resolving thermal neutron detectors are being developed with two-dimensional spatial resolution and rate capability down to 50 µm and up to 100 MHz per detector, respectively. In this talk an overview will be given - in comparison with the current state-of-the-art - on novel solutions for thermal neutron detectors, comprising, for instance, silicon micro-strip detectors for neutron radiography applications, hybrid low-pressure micro-strip gas chamber and gas electron multiplier (GEM) detectors with solid neutron converters, and the related front-end ASIC development.

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