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Mapping the Full Magnetic Dispersion of Multiferroic LuFe2O4
A better understanding of the magnetic excitation spectrum of LuFe2O4 is required to refine current models of the magnetoelectric coupling in this novel "electronic"... -
Probing the mechanism of thermoelectric enhancement in Kondo insulator YbB12 ...
We propose to study the evolution of the spectral features in the dynamical magnetic response in series Yb_{1-x}Tm_{x}B_{12} (x=0.15, 0.6, 0.8). Tm doping results in non-trivial... -
Spin Wave Dispersion in BaFe2As2
Understanding the magnetic exchange coupling and fundamental Hamiltonian of the parent compound of FeAs-based superconductors is extremely important, because such information... -
Paramagnetic excitations in BaFe2As2 at high temperature
One fundamental issue in the iron-based superconductors is whether the conventional local moment Heisenberg model is sufficient to describe magnetism in these materials, or... -
How does a catalyst promoter affect the degree of hydrogen retention of iron-...
We have recently used INS to determine how a hydrogen pre-treatment stage of an iron based Fischer-Tropsch catalyst may modify catalytic performance. That work established how... -
The relationship between the pseudogap and magnetic excitations in La2-xSrxCuO4
This proposal is part of an ongoing project to relate the magnetic excitations to other electronic properties of the cuprate superconductors. We have recently proposed that the... -
Probe spin excitations in heavily overdoped BaFe2-xNixAs2
Spin excitations is correlated with superconductivity in high Tc superconductors. The spin excitations in La2-xSrxCuO4 superconductors become weaker in overdoped region and... -
Spin excitation anisotropy in FeSe
Iron selenide (FeSe), a member of "11" family in iron-based superconductors, does not have static AF order; thus, the structural transition and associated nematic order have... -
The study of spin excitations in superconducting LiFeAs
The spin excitations in superconducting LiFeAs have been found evolved from incommensurate peaks to commensurate peak at low energy. But the spin resonance is still not clear in... -
High Temperature study of BaFe2As2
Recent unpublished data collected at MAPS by our group revealed that the spin wave dispersion of the Ba(122) parent differ significantly from Ca(122). In Ba(122) there is a... -
High precision measurement of the spin waves in Yttrium Iron Garnet
Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is a material with extremely wide ranging applications. It is a ferrimagnetic spinel with the narrowest ferromagnetic resonance linewidth of any known... -
Inelastic neutron scattering studies of bismuth oxyhalide photocatalysts
The material Bi24O31Br10(OH)x; is a novel highly efficient photocatalyst for organic redox reactions, and we are currently investigating structurally similar bismuth oxyhalides... -
Evolve of the Spin Waves in Rb0.8Fe1.6Se2 at High Temperature
The newly discovered AxFe2-ySe2 (A=K,Rb,Cs) compounds have attracted great interests because of their parent compounds are insulators instead of being metallic [2-6].... -
Explore the spectrum of spin excitations in non-superconducting BaFe1.8Ni0.1C...
Recently, our neutron scattering experiments on electron doped BaFe2-xNixAs2 and hole doped Ba1-xKxFe2As2 suggest that the presence of both high-energy spin excitations giving... -
High Energy Spin Excitations in Electron Overdoped NaFe0.7Ni0.3As
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in iron-based high-temperature superconductors are of great interest in condensed matter physics research. These two... -
Inelastic magnetic excitations in NaFe0.95Co0.05As (Tc~17 K)
Though NaFeAs shares the same crystallographic structure with LiFeAs, there are many different aspects between them. We would like to compare the magnetic excitation in it with... -
High precision measurements of the spin wave dispersion in Yttrium Iron Garnet
Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is a material with extremely wide ranging applications, having the narrowest ferromagnetic resonance linewidth of any known material. Despite decades... -
The application of INS to examine a Fischer-Tropsch-to-Olefin catalyst that h...
In conjunction with an industrial partner (Sasol Technology UK), the applicants have previously used INS measurements performed on the MAPS spectrometer to characterize a series... -
Spin waves in as-grown PLCCO-- How doping without annealing affects the spin ...
We propose to study the spin wave excitations of nonsuperconducting single crystal Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4 (PLCCO). Previous experiments on superconducting PLCCO have shown that spin... -
High precision measurement of the spin waves in Yttrium Iron Garnet
Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is a material with extremely wide ranging applications. It is a ferrimagnetic spinel with the narrowest ferromagnetic resonance linewidth of any known...