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https://www.nist.gov/people/brian-kirby
Brian Kirby (Fed)
Group Leader, Research Facility Operations, NCNR
Research Interests:
Advanced neutron scattering techniques
Magnetic multilayers and thin films
Magnetic property localization in nanostructured materials
Electric field control of magnetism
Magnetism at complex oxide interfaces
Awards
2012 NIST Bronze Medal, "For the elucidation of complex magnetic coupling in ferromagnetic, semiconducting multilayers using innovative polarized neutron reflectivity methods"
Vipul Chaturvedi, Supriya Ghosh, Dominique Gautreau, William M. Postiglione, John E. Dewey, Patrick Quarterman, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Brian Kirby, Hua Zhou, Huikui Cheng, Amanda Huon, Timothy Charlton, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Caroline Korostynski, Andrew Jacobson, Lucca Figari, Javier Garcia Barriocanal, T. Birol, K. A. Mkhoyan, Chris Leighton
Cobalt oxides have long been understood to display intriguing phenomena known as spin-state crossovers, where the cobalt ion spin changes vs. temperature
M. J. Roos, Patrick Quarterman, Jinjun Ding, Mingzhong Wu, Brian Kirby, B. L. Zink
We present evidence for and characterization of a ≈ 4 nm thick (Y1−xGdx)3Fe5O12 layer with x ≥ 0.4 formed at the interface between a gadolinium gallium garnet
X. H. Zhang, T. R. Gao, L. Fang, S. Fackler, Julie Borchers, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, S. E. Lofland, A. T. N'Diaye, E. Arenholz, A. Ullah, J. Cui, R. Skomski, Ichiro Takeuchi
The spin structure of exchange-coupled MnBi:Co-Fe bilayers is investigated by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR)
Peyton Murray, Christopher Jensen, Alberto Quintana, Junwei Zhang, Xixiang Zhang, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, Kai Liu
Electrically induced ionic motion offers a new way to realize voltage-controlled magnetism, opening the door to a new generation of logic, sensor, and data
Graded magnetic materials represent a promising new avenue in modern material science from both fundamental and application points of view. Over the course of