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Source of Electronic Magnetism in Palladium Bionanoparticles
The work will aim to use the unique property of muons, as sensitive probes of their local magnetic environment, to investigate the source of the electronic magnetism observed in... -
A µSR study of single crystals of the superconductor FeSe1 xTex (0≤x...
Superconductivity was recently discovered in alpha-phase FeSex with a Tc of 8 K. Selenium can be replaced with Tellurium (FeSe1-xTex) and this results in an increase in Tc to 15... -
A muSR spectroscopic study of the spin dynamics and reentrant spin-glass tran...
We have recently synthesised the novel iridocuprate IrSr2Sm1.15Ce0.85Cu2O10. This material exhibits a complex temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility with multiple... -
Study of low dynamics in the normal phase of iron based superconductors
Since the discovery of the iron-pnictides superconductors most of the efforts has been devoted to the study of the fundamental questions concerning the coexistence of magnetism... -
MuSR Studies of the Proton Conducting Polymer Nafion
The fluorinated ionomer Nafion is a material that provides efficient proton conducting membranes for application in important technological areas such as hydrogen fuel cells.... -
muSR of Polyethylene Oxide: A Simple Proton-Conducting Polymer
Proton-conducting polymer membranes have significant technological applications in hydrogen or methanol fuel cells. muSR can shed light on the mechanisms for proton transport in... -
Molecular Dynamics in Polystyrene
The goal of this experiment is to better understand the molecular dynamics in polystyrene in order to shed light on the discrepancy between beta-NMR and low-energy muSR... -
muSR in Rare-earth doped Phenanthrene Superconductors
We plan to perform transverse field and zero-field μSR experiments to investigate the temperature dependence of the relaxation rate in the superconducting phase of... -
Longitudinal relaxation measurements in the ferromagnetic phase of the superc...
We aim to perform zero and longitudinal field muon spin relaxation measurements in order to investigate anomalous spin dynamics effects observed in EuFe2(As1-xPx)2 with x=0.20... -
Probing Li+ diffusion mechanics in NMC bulk and nanomaterials with varying ni...
Recent advances in energy materials have led to the development of high capacity insertion cathodes for Li-ion batteries. One of the most promising of these materials is lithium... -
Studying the Temperature Dependence of The Slower μSR Frequencies in CsN...
We seek to continue our study of CsNiCl3 to determine the nature of the two magnetic transitions.Previous experiments at PSI have shown there are two distinct muons sites, one... -
Study of Magnetic Features in WQeakly Mn-Doped ZnGeP2
Continued investigation of magnetic fluctuations in the Mn-doiped chalcopyrite semiconductor ZnGeP2 is proposed using LF-MuSR depolarization rates. Due to ferromagnetism above... -
Muon spin relaxation study of biskyrmions in MnNiGa
Skyrmions are chiral spin textures that exist in a variety of magnetic materials. These states are topologically non-trivial, which gives them stability expected to be useful... -
Proton Conductivity in Phosphoric Acid: The Role of Nuclear Quantum Effects.
We propose to employ the neutron Compton scattering (NCS) in the realm of ionic liquids (iL), applying it to the protiated and deuterated variants of an archetipic IL, phosporic... -
Investigation of antiferromagnetic long-range interactions in Co-based Heusle...
Ni-Mn based Heusler alloys with composition related to the stoichiometry Ni2MnX, with X belonging to the IIIA-VA chemical species, are widely considered as a class of... -
Li-ion diffusion studies of Li-containing garnets prepared by microwave-assis...
The implementation of safe high voltage Li-ion batteries, capable of powering demanding technologies such as electric vehicles, is precluded by the current use of organic... -
Magnetic excitations in mesoporous hematite
We have recently prepared mesoporous forms of various metals oxides. In some cases the imposition of a mesostructure changes other properties of the material significantly. One... -
New Lifshits magnetic liquid phase in a non-centrosymmetric compound Mn3RhSi
Recently, new phase with Lifshits invariant of incommensurability is reported as a solitonic spin-liquid state above the magnetically ordered phase on Fe1-yTe. It cannot not be... -
Impurity-induced frustration in La2CuO4
We plan to investigate by means of zero-field muSR the doping dependence of the sublatticemagnetization in La2Cu1-xZnxO4 and in La2Cu1-xMgxO4. In both systems Cu2+ S=1/2 spins... -
Quasi two-dimensional molecular layers separated by magnetic and non-magnetic...
Recent progress in the field of molecular magnetism has shown the clear potential for gaining control over the structural building blocks of molecular materials in order to...
