Research Highlights
Magnetism
- ARCS maps collaborative magnetic spin behavior in iron telluride
Published Work: “Unconventional Temperature Enhanced Magnetism in Fe1:1Te” (2011)
Contact: Igor Zaliznyak
- Unexpected Magnetic Excitations in Doped Insulator Surprise Researchers
Published Work: “Persistence of magnons in a site-diluted dimerized frustrated antiferromagnet” (2011)
Contact: Matt Stone
- Neutron Analysis Reveals Unique Atomic-Scale Behavior of "Cobalt Blue"
Published Work: "Kinetically inhibited order in a diamond-lattice antiferromagnet" (2011)
Contact: Gregory MacDougall
- Neutrons Show LiF Tunnel Barriers in Spin Valve Devices Improve Efficiency
Researchers are working to discover new materials for spin valves, devices used in magnetic sensors, random access memories, and hard disk drives.
Published Work: "Electronic and structural characterization of LiF tunnel barriers in organic spin-valve structures"(2011)
Contact: Valeria Lauter
- SEQUOIA Measures Magnetic Excitations Revealing Exotic Physics in One Dimension
Researchers use time-of-flight neutron scattering to detect and measure the magnetic interactions between a material’s magnetic ions―a phenomenon known as a “spin-Peierls” phase transition.
Published Work: "Singlet-triplet excitations in the unconventional spin-Peierls system TiOBr" (2011)
Contact: Patrick Clancy, McMaster University
