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Magneto-structural order in the breathing pyrochlore spinel LiGaCr4O8s
Normally, magnetic materials at low temperature can be described in terms of magnetic order; a repeating pattern of magnetic moments which satisfy the internal interactions of... -
QENS studies of Na-ion battery materials
LixCoO2 is used extensively in portable batteries in laptops and mobile phones, but the scarcity of Li means that alternative materials are required. Structurally related... -
Magnetic order in Er2Si2O7
We propose to use neutron diffraction to establish the magnetic structure of D-type of Er2Si2O7 in zero field first with a view of extending the measurements to an applied field... -
Magnetic order of correlated hourglass fermion candidate Eu5In2Sb5
A new kind of topologically protected electronic state has been predicted in crystals whose surfaces form atomic patterns with certain non-symmorphic symmetries. Eu5In2Sb6 is... -
Quantum critical E/T scaling of the dynamic susceptibility in Sr3Ru2O7
Spin fluctuations of materials close to a quantum critical point (QCP) exhibit anomalous behaviors. Sr3Ru2O7 has been shown to exhibit field-induced spin density wave (SDW)... -
In-situ high resolution neutron diffraction and Electric polarization measure...
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the WISH instrument team has worked together to enable simultaneous real-time high resolution (powder and single crystal) neutron... -
Role of interstitial oxygen ordering on the spin excitation of Pr2-xSrxNiO4+d
Dynamics of charge and spin stripe in 214-type nickelets (La2-xSrxNiO4+d) have been investigated intensively in last two decades as similar electronic ordering was found in... -
Chemical effect on elastic properties in hexa-alogenated-benzenes
Benzene is the parent compound of organic solids based on C-H...pi interactions that have been used in organic field effect transistors. Any change in the C-H...pi interactions... -
Determining the Induced Magnetism in Graphene by Polarised Neutron Reflectivity
This proposal aims to unambiguously understand the proximity effect between graphene and a transition metal using Polarised Neutron Reflectivity (PNR) measurements at the POLREF... -
Magnetic Excitations in the Shastry-Sutherland magnet; Neodymium Tetraboride
We are proposing to investigate the magnetic excitations of NdB4 in zero field using LET. NdB4 crystallises into tetragonal structure where the Nd ions forms layers which map to... -
Investigation of the correlations above TN in PdCrO2
In recent years there has been a large interest in geometrically frustrated magnetic systems, especially those with spins interacting on two-dimensional triangular lattices... -
Magnetic structure of Cr2GaN
The Mn+1AXn phases, crystalized in hexagonal P63/mmc, have attracted considerable interest for its metallic properties and mechanic properties. In 2013, Liu et al reported that... -
Competing degenrate magnetic states in Ba1-xNaxFe2As2
Magnetic and superconducting ground states have been proposed to coexist in a relatively narrow compositional range in the so-called 122 pnictide superconductors. We recently... -
The origin of room temperature ferromagnetism in strained BiFeMnO epitaxial f...
We have produced high quality, epitaxial and phase pure thin films of BiFe0.5Mn0.5O3 (BFMO) grown on (001) SrTiO3 substrates using pulsed laser deposition. The magnetic... -
High resolution neutron diffraction study to investigate quadrupolar ordering...
Recently we have investigated magnetic and quadrupolar ordered states of YbRu2Ge2 using zero-field muon spin relaxation (µSR), neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron... -
Diffse scattering Investigation of magnetic correlations in CsCrMgF6
The modified pyrochlores AM2+M3+F6 (A alkali metal ion, M transition metal ion) are a class of highly frustrated materials that have a randomness associated with the positions... -
Unusual higher order incommensurate components in the magnetic structure of TmCu
This proposal forms a very specific part of our project to investigate complex magnetic structures in rare earth intermetallics. In extensive bulk measurements on high purity... -
Anharmonic thermal motion of hydrogen atom(s)
This is a feasibility study of a possible influence of anharmonic thermal motion of hydrogen atom(s) on quantitative electron density distributions in single crystals of model... -
In situ Investigation of the Locations of Gas Molecules within a Decorated Po...
We request 5 days on WISH to study the preferred binding sites and locations of adsorbed gas molecules (CO2, SO2, C2D2, C2D4, and D2) within a decorated Al(III)-carboxylate... -
Neutron scattering investigation of spin-dynamics in the S= 1/2 trimer chain ...
Spin-trimer chain systems are of current interest due to unconventional properties arising from the strong quantum fluctuations and topology, such as, quantum phenomenon of...