[en] The design and construction phases for the Microfoil Internal Conversion Electron (MICE) detector have been completed and it has been interfaced into the computer control for our high intensity Moessbauer scattering instrument. Thorough evaluation and optimization of MICE for low temperature operation are in progress. Data already taken, however, show that it gives an order of magnitude enhancement in signal-to-background compared to the Ge detector used in a transmission geometry. Publications about the performance of MICE, about thermal diffuse scattering studies on Si, and about charge density wave studies on TaS₂ are forthcoming