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Inelastic neutron scattering study quantum criticality of Ba(Fe1/3Co1/3Ni1/3)...
Exotic finite-temperature collective excitations beyond standard Landau Fermi liquid framework exhibit anomalous temperature dependences in the transport and thermodynamic... -
Inelastic neutron scattering study of exchange disorder in CaFe2O4 and CaFe1....
We would like to investigate polycrystalline CaFe2O4 which undergoes two magnetic transitions to a B phase below 190 K and to a A phase below 160 K. Both phases coexist in a... -
Structure and Magnetic Order in Mn2NiReO6 - an All Transition Metal double ...
A2BBO6 double perovskites are an important family of materials, with spintronic properties found in some examples e.g. Sr2FeMoO6. Although A2+ sites are usually occupied by... -
Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction Study of a photo-active pyrene derivative
The compound proposed for this study is an interesting example of how strongly spectroscopic properties of pyrene derivatives in the solid state can depend on the crystal... -
Magnetic structure and multiferroicity in metal-formate perovskites
The family of guanadinium metal formates (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) are isostructural with the perovskites and are therefore of interest for potential applications: in particular,... -
Study of hybridization gap formation in a single crystal of the heavy-Fermion...
The solution of the Anderson lattice model (ALM) leads to two renormalized bands near EF with an energy gap due to hybridization between the 4f- and conduction electrons. The... -
Magnetic order in the highly frustrated S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet haydeeit...
Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are new and exotic states of matter that in 2 dimensions were proposed by Anderson to underpin the transition to unconventional superconductivity of... -
Magnetism and structural distortions in the Sr(2-x)Ba(x)NiOsO6 system
The magnetism of double perovskites can be amazingly sensitive to subtle distortions of their structures. Previous studies have shown that Ca2NiOsO6 is a ferrimagnet, Sr2NiOsO6... -
Study of magnetic spiral in the room temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 - PbTiO3
BiFeO3 is a room temperature multiferroic, displaying both ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic (AFE) ordering. x-BiFeO3 - (1-x)-PbTiO3 is also multiferroic at room temperature... -
Effects of external and chemical pressure on the magnetovolume effects in Ba3...
Ba3BiIr2O9 and Ba3BiRu2O9 undergo very unusual structural transitions at 74 and 176 K respectively, with instantaneous negative thermal expansion of up to 1% in the Ir compound.... -
Understanding the ground state wavefunction in PrPtAl and YbNiSn
The proposal addreses the compounds PrPtAl and YbNiSn. Both systems are canted ferromagnets with both materials undergoing moment reorientation transitions as a function of... -
Low-temperature incommensurate magnetic structure study of magneto-dielectric...
The interplay between spin, charge, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedoms in SrMn1-xWxO3 (X= 0.1625, 0.175) produce the charge and/or spin density waves (CDW, SDW) modulated... -
In-situ Variable Temperature Studies of Dy Doped BiFeO3
Multiferroics and in particular BiFeO3 have recieved alot of interest. The potential of multiferroic materials to be incorporated into many devices such as sensors and memory... -
Studies of Diffusion of Adsorbed Gas Molecules in a Porous MOF by QENS
We request 6 days on IRIS to study the diffusion of adsorbed gas molecules (H2, CH4, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6) within a functional porous metal-organic framework (MOF) as a function of... -
Avalanche-like hybrid-improper ferroelectric transition in SrBi2Nb2O9
Improper-ferroelectrics (FE) are the backbone to development towards room-temperature multiferroics and carry the immense technological potential for next-generation... -
Magnetic phase transition in lightly doped LiGa1-xInxCr4O8
Magnetic frustration - the inability to mutually satisfy all magnetic interactions in a system - is the source of many interesting phenomena, including spin liquids and ices. In... -
Structure and phase transitions of Sr3Ru2O7
Sr3Ru2O7 is a layered Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite which displays intriguing behaviour at low temperatures and high magnetic field. It can be tuned close to a quantum critical... -
Uncompensated moments in antiferromagnetic barriers in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 / La0.3...
Recently, we have demonstrated that a large ferromagnetic moment can be induced at theinsulating barrier (La0.3Ca0.7MnO3 (LC7MO)) separating two... -
Study of structural phase transition in the spin-dimer YbAl3C3 using high res...
YbAl3C3 undergoes a structural phase transition at 80 K and a spin-dimer formation below 10K. To gain more information on the nature of the spin-dimer state and the phase... -
QENS studies of improved hydrogen release in nanostructured ammonia borane fi...
Increasing the density of hydrogen storage is critical for the commercial introduction of hydrogen vehicles. Our nanostructured electrospun ammonia borane (AB)-polystyrene (PS)...