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Search Publications by: Charles F. Majkrzak (Fed)

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Optimization of 6 LiF:ZnS(Ag) Scintillator Light Yield using GEANT4

June 1, 2018
Author(s)
Y. Yehuda-Zada, Kevin N. Pritchard, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, P. Yvonne Barnes, Kerry Siebein, M. Jackson, C. Hurlbut, Y. Kadmon, Y. Cohen, R. M. Ibberson, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj, I. Orion, A. Osovizky
A new cold neutron detector has been developed at the NCNR for the CANDoR project. Geometric and performance constraints dictate that this detector be exceptionally thin (2nm). For this reason, the design of the detector consists of 6LiF:ZnS(Ag)

Selection of Silicon Photomultipliers for a 6 LiF:ZnS(Ag) Scintillator Based Cold Neutron Detector

April 8, 2018
Author(s)
A. Osovizky, Kevin N. Pritchard, Y. Yehuda-Zada, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, Peter NMN Tsai, M. Ghelman, Alan Keith Thompson, R. M. Ibberson, George M. Baltic, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj
We describe the process of selecting a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) as the light sensor for an ultrathin (2 nm) highly efficient cold neutron proportional counter. The neutron detector consists of 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) scintillator in which wavelength shifting

6 LiF:ZnS(Ag) Mixture Optimization for a Miniature Highly Efficient Cold Neutron Detector

April 2, 2018
Author(s)
A. Osovizky, Kevin N. Pritchard, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, Louis E. Binkley, Y. Yehuda-Zada, Peter NMN Tsai, Alan Keith Thompson, P. Yvonne Barnes, Kerry Siebein, Nancy Hadad, M. Jackson, C. Hurlbut, R. Ibberson, George M. Baltic, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj
We report the optimization of a ^6^LiF:ZnS(Ag) scintillator mixture for an ultrathin (2nm), highly efficient cold neutron dector. Preliminary results with early protypes demonstrate excellent for 3.62 meV (4.75 Angstrom wavelenght) neutrons but mediocre

Correlation Between Morphology and Device Performance of pBTTT:PC 71 BM Solar Cells

October 1, 2016
Author(s)
Wenluan Zhang, Hao Shen, Brett W. Guralnick, Brian Kirby, Ngoc A. Nguyen, Roddel Remy, Charles Majkrzak, Michael E. Mackay
Phenyl-C 71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC 71BM) could intercalate between the side-chains of poly(2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (pBTTT) creating a stable co-crystal structure, so optimal solar cell performance was obtained at

Measurement and Modeling of Polarized Specular Neutron Reflectivity in Large Magnetic Fields

August 1, 2016
Author(s)
Brian B. Maranville, Brian J Kirby, Alexander J Grutter, Paul Kienzle, Charles F. Majkrzak, Yaohua Liu, Cindi L. Dennis
The presence of a large applied magnetic field removes the degeneracy of the vacuum energy states for spin-up and spin-down neutrons. For polarized neutron reflectometry, this must be included in the reference potential energy of the Schrodinger equation

Surface Segregation Driven by Molecular Architecture Asymmetry in Polymer Blends

November 28, 2014
Author(s)
Jae Sik Lee, Nam-Heui Lee, Somesh Peri, Mark D. Foster, Charles Majkrzak, Renfeng Hu, David T. Wu
The contributions of chain ends and branch points to surface segregation of long-branched chains in blends with linear chains have been studied using Neutron Reflectometry and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for a series of novel, well-defined

Phase-Sensitive Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

April 1, 2014
Author(s)
Charles F. Majkrzak, Kathryn L. Krycka, Susan Krueger, Norman F. Berk, Paul A. Kienzle, Brian B. Maranville
A method is described for determining the neutron scattering length density distribution of a molecular scale object directly from phase-sensitive small angle neutron scattering (SANS). The structure factor amplitude is obtained through the use of a

Determination of the Effective Transverse Coherence of the Neutron Wave Packet as Employed in Reflectivity Investigations of Condensed-Matter Structures. I. Measurements

March 27, 2014
Author(s)
Charles F. Majkrzak, Christopher Metting, Brian B. Maranville, Joseph A. Dura, Sushil K. Satija, Terrence J. Udovic, Norman F. Berk
The primary purpose of this investigation is to determine the effective coherent extent of the neutron wave packet transverse to its mean propagation vector k, as prepared in a typical instrument used to study the structure of materials in thin film form

Design of remnant magnetization FeCoV films as compact, heatless neutron spin rotators

April 5, 2013
Author(s)
Michael G. Huber, M. O. Abutaleb, Dimitry A. Pushin, Charles F. Majkrzak, Muhammad Arif, D G. Cory
We introduce a design of a neutron spin rotator for applications with space and temperature constraints. These passive devices employ remnant magnetization Fe- CoV thin films and can be tuned experimentally to achieve arbitrary rotation of an incident

Halothane Changes the Domain Structure of a Binary Lipid Membrane

February 28, 2012
Author(s)
Michael Weinrich, Hirsh Nanda, David Worcester, Charles Majkrzak, Brian B. Maranville, Sergey M. Bezrukov
X-ray and neutron diffraction studies of model lipid raft membranes demonstrate that halothane at physiological concnetrations produces redistribution of lipids between domains of different lipid types identified by different lamellar-d-spacings and

Phase-Sensitive Specular Neutron Reflectometry for Imaging the Nanometer Scale Compositional Depth profile of Thin-Film Materials

November 20, 2011
Author(s)
Brian Kirby, Paul A. Kienzle, Brian B. Maranville, Norman F. Berk, J. Krycka, Frank Heinrich, Charles Majkrzak
Neutron reflectometry is a powerful method for probing the molecular scale structure of both hard and soft condensed matter films. Moreover, the phase-sensitive methods which have been developed make it possible for specular neutron reflectometry to be

Helical Magnetic Order in MnSi Thin Films

August 22, 2011
Author(s)
E. A. Karhu, S. Kahwaji, M. D. Robertson, H. Fritzche, Brian Kirby, Charles Majkrzak, T. L. Monchesky
We present a study of the magnetic structure of crystalline MnSi(111) thin films by molecular beam epitaxy. A combination of polarized neutron diffraction (PNR) and SQUID magnetometry show that the films have helical magnetic order with a pitch vector Q

Structural Evidence for an Edge-Contaminated Vortex Phase in a Nb Crystal using Neutron Diffrraction

July 20, 2011
Author(s)
Helen A. Hanson, X. Wang, I. K. Dimitrov, J. Shi, X. S. Ling, Brian B. Maranville, Charles Majkrzak, M. Laver, U. Keiderling, M. Russina
We report the structural observation of a disordered vortex matter phase existing near the edge of a bulk type-II superconductor Nb using a novel position-sensitive neutron diffraction technique. This "edge-contaminated" vortex state was implicated in

Variations in Cross-link Density with Deposition Pressure in Ultrathin Plasma Polymerized Benzene and Octafluorocyclobutane Films

September 1, 2010
Author(s)
Someswara R. Peri, Brian Habersberger, Bulent Akgun, Hao Jiang, Jesse Enlow, Timothy J. Bunning, Charles Majkrzak, Mark D. Foster
For ultrathin, plasma polymerized (PP) films, variations in structure with depth near the substrate and near the surface are much more readily apparent than in thick films. Neutron reflectometry (NR) measurements of ultrathin PP-films from

Abstracts for the MSEL Assessment Panel, March 2001

January 26, 2001
Author(s)
Leslie E. Smith, Alamgir Karim, Leonid A. Bendersky, C Lu, J J. Scott, Ichiro Takeuchi, Kathleen M. Flynn, Vinod K. Tewary, Davor Balzar, G A. Alers, Stephen E. Russek, Charles C. Han, Haonan Wang, William E. Wallace, Daniel A. Fischer, K Efimenko, Wen-Li Wu, Jan Genzer, Joseph C. Woicik, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Henry J. Prask, Charles F. Majkrzak, Norman F. Berk, John G. Barker, Charles J. Glinka, Eric K. Lin, Ward L. Johnson, Paul R. Heyliger, David T. Read, R R. Keller, J Blendell, Grady S. White, Lin-Sien H. Lum, Eric J. Cockayne, Igor Levin, C E. Johnson, Maureen E. Williams, Gery R. Stafford, William J. Boettinger, Kil-Won Moon, Daniel Josell, Daniel Wheeler, Thomas P. Moffat, W H. Huber, Lee J. Richter, Clayton S. Yang, Robert D. Shull, R A. Fry, Robert D. McMichael, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Ursula R. Kattner, James A. Warren, Jonathan E. Guyer, Steven P. Mates, Stephen D. Ridder, Frank S. Biancaniello, D Basak, Jon C. Geist, Kalman D. Migler
Abstracts relating to research and development in the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) are presented for a poster session to be presented to the 2001 MSEL Assessment Panel.