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Search Publications by: Brian B. Maranville (Fed)

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Structural and Magnetic Depth Profiles of Magneto-Ionic Heterostructures Beyond the Interface Limit

July 22, 2016
Author(s)
Dustin A. Gilbert, Alexander J. Grutter, Elke Arenholz, Kai Liu, Brian J. Kirby, Julie A. Borchers, Brian B. Maranville
Electric-field control of magnetism provides a promising route towards ultralow power information storage and sensor technologies. The effects of magneto-ionic motion have so far been prominently featured in the direct modification of interface chemical

Controllable Positive Exchange Bias via Redox-Driven Oxygen Migration

March 21, 2016
Author(s)
Dustin A. Gilbert, Justin Olamit, Randy K. Dumas, Brian J. Kirby, Alexander J. Grutter, Brian B. Maranville, Elke Arenholz, Julie A. Borchers, Kai Liu
We have observed oxygen migration across buried interfaces in Gd^xdx^Fe 1-x /NiCoO films, which leads to tunable positive exchange bias over a relatively small cooling field range of 300 mT. The tunability is shown to be the result of an interfacial layer

Reversible Control of Magnetism in La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 through Chemically-Induced Oxygen Migration

February 24, 2016
Author(s)
Alexander J. Grutter, Dustin A. Gilbert, U. S. Alaan, E. Arenholz, Brian B. Maranville, Julie A. Borchers, Y. Suzuki, Kai Liu, Brian J. Kirby
We demonstrate reversible control of magnetization and anisotropy in La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 films through interfacial oxygen migration. Gd metal capping layers deposited onto La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 leach Oxygen from the film through a solid-state redox

Realization of Ground-State Artificial Skyrmion Lattices at Room Temperature

October 8, 2015
Author(s)
Dustin A. Gilbert, Brian B. Maranville, Andy L. Balk, Brian J. Kirby, Peter Fischer, Daniel T. Pierce, John Unguris, Julie A. Borchers, Kai Liu
The topological nature of magnetic skyrmions deriving from broken symmetries leads to extraordinary static and dynamic properties that provide new insight in fundamental problems of magnetism and exciting potentials for exploitation in novel magnetic

Effective Anisotropy Gradient in Pressure Graded [Co/Pd] Multilayers

February 14, 2015
Author(s)
Brian J. Kirby, P. K. Greene, Brian B. Maranville, J. E. Davis, Kai Liu
A vertically graded anisotropy profile has been proposed as an optimized balance of low coercivity and thermal stability for multilayers used in magnetic media. Deposition pressure is known to have a profound effect on the magnetic reversal properties of

3 He Spin Filter Based Polarized Neutron Capability at the NIST Center for Neutron Research

July 24, 2014
Author(s)
WangChun Chen, Thomas R. Gentile, Ross W. Erwin, Shannon Watson, Qiang NMN Ye, Kathryn L. Krycka, Brian B. Maranville
A 3 He neutron spin filter (NSF) program for polarized neutron scattering was launched in 2006 as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Expansion Initiative. The goal of the project was to

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

Effect of Capping Material on Interfacial Ferromagnetism in FeRh Thin Films

January 31, 2014
Author(s)
C. Baldasseroni, G. K. Palsson, C. Bordel, S. Valencia, A. A. Unal, F. Kronast, S. Nemsak, C. S. Fadley, Julie Borchers, Brian B. Maranville, F. Hellman
The role of the capping material in stabilizing a thin ferromagnetic layer at the interface between an FeRh film and cap in the nominally antiferromagnetic phase at room temperature was studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in photoemission electron

Optimization of Spin-triplet Supercurrent in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions

March 20, 2012
Author(s)
Benjamin James McMorran, Theresa Ginley, Julie Borchers, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, John Unguris
In the past year, several groups have observed evidence for long-range spin-triplet, supercurrent in Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic (F) materials. In our work, the spin-triplet pair correlations are created by non-collinear magnetizations

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

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

The Periodic Table of Damping in Doped Ni 80 Fe 20 Thin Films

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
J O. Rantschler, D Pulugurthaand, Andrew P. Chen, L M. Connors, Audie M. Castillo, Alexander J. Shapiro, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Brian B. Maranville, Robert D. McMichael
The effect of doping on the magnetic damping parameter of Ni80Fe20 is measured for 21 transition metal dopants:Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Cu, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, and Au. For most of the dopants, the damping parameter increases

Preoxidation as a general approach to suppressing orange-peel coupling in magnetic tunnel junctions

October 1, 2006
Author(s)
William F. Egelhoff Jr., Robert McMichael, Cindi L. Dennis, Mark D. Stiles, Alexander J. Shapiro, Brian B. Maranville, Cedric J. Powell
We have found that preoxidation of the bottom electrode prior to deposition of Al 2 O 3 or MgO is very effective as a general approach to suppressing orange-peel coupling in magnetic tunnel junctions. When orange-peel coupling is suppressed, the hard-axis

Thermal Neutron Demagnetization of NdFeB Magnets

July 30, 2006
Author(s)
R Klaffky, Richard M. Lindstrom, Brian B. Maranville, Robert D. Shull, B Micklich, J Vacca
To isolate the effect that thermal neutrons have on Nd2Fe14B permanent magnets, the magnetization and coercivity were studied as a function of dose. The changes in remanent magnetization are substantial and are attributed to boron thermal neutron capture