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Elizabeth Blackburn, John Goodkind, Sunil K. Sinha, Collin Broholm, John R. Copley, Ross W. Erwin
There has been a resurgence of interest in the properties of Solid Helium due to the recent discovery of non-classical rotational inertia (NCRI) in solid 4He by Chan and coworkers below 200 mK which they have interpreted as a transition to a "supersolid"
Vivek Srinivasamurthi, Joseph A. Dura, Sushil K. Satija, Charles F. Majkrzak
Nafion thin films (500 Å) spin coated onto the Pt and Au layers on Si are investigated for water uptake and swelling. Neutron Reflectometry data demonstrate that these structures are composed of nafion layers which differ from their bulk properties in
The technique of combinatorial atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition, a recent addition to growing number of combinatorial synthesis methods, has been used to form 12 members of the Ti xV 1-xN alloy series with 0.38 < x < 094. This series of
Terrence J. Udovic, Qingzhen Huang, Antonio Santoro, John J. Rush
The efficacy of different structural models for describing the observed neutron-powder-diffraction (NPD) measurements of bulk polycrystalline YD3 as well as other hexagonal rare-earth (i.e., Nd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm) trideuteride powders has been
Jun Li, Udayshankar G. Singh, Thomas D. Schladt, Judith K. Stalick, Susannah L. Scott, Ram Seshadri
Metastable YFeO3 with the hexagonal YAlO3 structure was obtained by a sol−gel process at 700 °C, using metal nitrate precursors with pH control and the appropriate citric acid to nitrate ratio. Under similar conditions, YFe1−xPdxO3−δ (0 x ≤ 0.1)
Seoungsu Lee, Taekjib Choi, William D. Ratcliff, Ross W. Erwin, S W. Cheong, V. Kiryukhin
We report on polarized neutron-scattering and piezoresponse force microscopy studies of millimeter-sized single crystals of multiferroic BiFeO3. The crystals, grown below the Curie temperature, consist of a single ferroelectric domain. Two unique electric
J.-H. Kim, Sungdae Ji, S.-H. Lee, B. Lake, Taner N. Yildirim, H. Nojiri, H. Kikuchi, K. Habicht, Yiming Qiu, K. Kiefer
We report bulk magnetization, and elastic and inelastic neutron scattering measurements under an external magnetic field, H, on the weakly coupled distorted kagom¿e system, Cu 2(OD) 3Cl. Our results show that the ordered state below 6.7 K is a canted
Hao Sha, F Ye, Pengcheng Dai, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, D Mesa, Jeffrey Lynn, Y Tomioka, Y Tokura, Jiandi Zhang
Neutron scattering has been used to investigate the evolution of long- and short-range charge-ordered (CO), ferromagnetic, and antiferromagnetic (AF) correlations in single crystals of Pr1−xCaxMnO3. The existence and population of spin clusters as
Yiming Qiu, M. Kofu, Wei Bao, S.-H. Lee, Qingzhen Huang, Taner N. Yildirim, John R. Copley, Jeffrey Lynn, T. Wu, G. Wu, X. H. Chen
The recently discovered superconductor LaO0.87F0.13FeAs (TC≈26 K) was investigated using the neutron-scattering technique. No spin-density-wave (SDW) order was observed in the normal state or in the superconducting state, both with and without an applied
We report neutron diffuse scattering measurements on a single crystal of 68%Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3- 32%PbTiO3. Strong diffuse scattering is observed at low temperatures. An external field applied along the [001] direction affects the diffuse scattering in the
Ying Chen, Jeffrey Lynn, Jiying Li, G. J. Li, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, Pengcheng Dai, Clarnia dela Cruz, H. A. Mook
Polarized and unpolarized neutron diffraction measurements have been carried out to investigate the iron magnetic order in undoped NdOFeAs. Antiferromagnetic order is observed below 141(6) K, which is in close proximity to the structural distortion
From all-electron fixed-spin-moment calculations we show that ferromagnetic and checkerboard antiferromagnetic ordering in LaFeAsO are not stable and the stripe antiferromagnetic configuration with is the only stable ground state. The main exchange
Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Taner Yildirim, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Angela R. Hight Walker
Metal-organic framework-5 (MOF-5) was recently suggested to possess an exceptionally large negative thermal expansion coefficient. Our direct experimental measurement of the thermal expansion of MOF-5, using neutron powder diffraction, in the temperature
C. Sudakar, K. Pradmanabhan, R Naik, G Lawes, Brian Kirby, Sanjiv Kumar, V. M. Naik
We investigated the magnetic properties of CuO–ZnO heterostructures to elucidate the origin of the ferromagnetic signature in Cu doped ZnO. The CuO and ZnO layer thickness were varied from 15 to 150 nm and from 70 to 350 nm, respectively. Rutherford
H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe, A. Harter, Naresh S. Dalal, Jason Gardner
The new pyrochlore Mn2Sb2O7 has been synthesized via a low-temperature method to retain cubic Fd2m symmetry. The resulting material has an unconventional spin glass state at TSG∼41 K, in the absence of detectable site disorder or a structural phase
J Park, X Li, D Tran, T Abdel-Baset, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Muhammad D. Arif
In this study neutron radiography is applied to investigate the performance of a PEM fuel cell based on the effect of liquid water accumulation in the cell. Dynamic performance tests have been carried out on a PEM fuel cell with a specially designed
M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, Sung Chang, E. C. Samulon, C. D. Batista, I. R. Fisher
We present single crystal inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the S=1 dimerized quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnet Ba3Mn2O8. The singlet-triplet dispersion reveals nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic interactions between
Vivek M. Prabhu, Jihoon Kang, Nayool Shin, Do Y. Yoon, Do Y. Jang
A comprehensive structural and electrical characterization of solution-processed blend films of 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene (TIPS-pentacene) and poly(alpha-methylstyrene) (PaMS) was performed to understand and optimize the blend
Shannon Watson, T. Hauet, Julie A. Borchers, S Mangin, Eric E. Fullerton
Using magnetometry and polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR), we have mapped the reversal processes of the antiferromagnetically coupled, hard/soft system, TbFeCo/[Co/Pd(tpd)}15, with perpendicular anisotropy. The magnitude of the exchange coupling within
Seoungsu Lee, William D. Ratcliff, S.-W. Cheong, V. Kiryukhin
Single crystals of multiferroic BiFeO 3 were investigated using neutron scattering. Application of an electric field reversibly switches ferroelastic domains, inducing changes in the magnetic structure which follows rotation of the structural domains. In
The spatial intensity distribution of neutrons emerging from a curved guide is asymmetric, and straight guide sections are sometimes appended to curved guides to make the intensity distribution more nearly uniform. For idealized uniform illumination and in
Metal−organic framework (MOF) compounds with exposed transition-metal (TM) sites were recently found to exhibit significantly larger experimental heats of adsorption of H2 than classical MOFs, thus attracting greater attention. Here we show that the
Chunxia Chen, Praveen Depa, Janna K. Maranas, Victoria G. Sakai
We evaluate explicit atom, united atom, and coarse-grained force fields for molecular dynamics simulation of poly(methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)by comparison to structural and dynamic neutron scattering data. The coarse-grained force field is assigned based on