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Search Publications by: Charles F. Majkrzak (Fed)

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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