Materials and Condensed Matter Physics

2015 publications

Magnetic soliton confinement and discretization effects arising from macroscopic coherence in a chiral spin soliton lattice
Togawa, Y. et al. (2015)
Physical Review B, 92, 220412(R)

Beating the Stoner criterion using molecular interfaces
F Al Ma’Mari , T Moorsom, G Teobaldi, W Deacon, T Prokscha, H Luetkens, S Lee, G E Sterbinsky, D A Arena, D A MacLaren, M Flokstra, M Ali1, M C Wheeler, G Burnell, B J Hickey, O Cespedes
Nature, 524, (2015) doi: 10.1038/nature14621

Ground state search, hysteretic behaviour, and reversal mechanism of skyrmionic textures in confined helimagnetic nanostructures
Beg, M. et al. (2015)
Scientific Reports, 5, 17137

Unexpected Magnetic Properties of Gas-Stabilized Platinum Nanostructures in the Tunneling Regime
O Cespedes, M Wheeler, T Moorsom, M Viret
Nano Lett, 15, (2015), doi: 10.1021/nl504254d

Magnetic characteristics of a high-layer-number NiFe/FeMn multilayer
Paterson, G.W., Goncalves, F.J.T., McFadzean, S., O'Reilly, S., Bowman, R., and Stamps, R.L. (2015)
Journal of Applied Physics, 118(20), 203903

Parallel axis theorem for free-space electron wavefunctions
Greenshields, C. R., Franke-Arnold, S., and Stamps, R. L. (2015)
New Journal of Physics, 17, 093015

Space and thickness influence on magnetization reversal in periodic cylinder shaped exchange spring
Hu, C.-l., Zhou, Y.-c., Liao, L., and Stamps, R.L. (2015)
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 386, pp. 146-149

Narrow magnonic waveguides based on domain walls
Garcia-Sanchez, F., Borys, P., Soucaille, R., Adam, J.-P., Stamps, R. L., and Kim, J.-V. (2015)
Physical Review Letters, 114(24), 247206

Highly asymmetric magnetic domain wall propagation due to coupling to a periodic pinning potential
Novak, R.L. et al. (2015)
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 48(23), 235004

Anisotropy engineering using exchange bias on antidot templates
Goncalves, F. J. T., Desautels, R. D., Su, S., Drysdale, T., van Lierop, J., Lin, K.-W., Schmool, D. S., and Stamps, R. L. (2015)
AIP Advances, 5(6), 067101

Magnetic microscopy and topological stability of homochiral Néel domain walls in a Pt/Co/AlOx trilayer
MJ Benitez, A Hrabec, AP Mihai, TA Moore, G Burnell, D McGrouther, CH Marrows & S McVitie
Nature Comm. 6 (2015), 8957

Lorentz TEM Imaging of Stripe Structures Embedded in a Soft Magnetic Matrix
M A Basith, S McVitie, T Strache, M Fritzsche, A Muecklich, J Fassbender, and J McCord
Phys. Rev. Applied 4 (2015), 034012

4D STEM: High efficiency phase contrast imaging using a fast pixelated detector
H Yang, L Jones, H Ryll, M Simson, H Soltau, Y Kondo, R Sagawa, H Banba, I MacLaren, and P D Nellist
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 644 (2015) 012032

Strain localization in thin films of Bi(Fe,Mn)O₃ due to the formation of stepped Mn⁴⁺-rich antiphase boundaries
I MacLaren, B Sala, S M L Andersson, T J Pennycook, J Xiong, Q X Jia, E-M Choi, J L MacManus-Driscoll
Nanoscale Research Letters 10 (2015) 407

Electron Tomography Image Reconstruction using Data-Driven Adaptive Compressed Sensing
A AlAfeef, W P Cockshott, I MacLaren, S McVitie
Scanning (2015) in press

Rapid surfactant-free synthesis of Mg(OH)₂ nanoplates and pseudomorphic dehydration to MgO
J M Hanlon, L Bravo Diaz, G Balducci, B A Stobbs, M Bielewski, P Chung, I MacLaren and D H Gregory
CrystEngComm 17 (2015) 5672-5679

Stabilisation of Fe₂O₃-rich Perovskite Nanophase in Epitaxial Rare-earth Doped BiFeO₃ Films
H R Zhang, I M Reaney, D Marincel, S Trolier-McKinstry, Q M Ramasse, I MacLaren, S D Findlay, R Fraleigh, I M Ross, S B Hu, W Ren, W M Rainforth
Scientific Reports 5 (2015) 13066

Interface reactions in LSMO-metal hybrid structures, N Homonnay, KJ O'Shea, C Eisenschmidt, M Wahler, DA MacLaren and G Schmidt
Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (2015) 22196

Investigating the effects of contacting functional oxide films
KJ O’Shea, N Homonnay, G Schmidt and DA MacLaren.
J Phys: Conf. Ser. 644 (2015) 012001

Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of a Chiral Plasmonic Structure
GW Paterson, A Karimullah, SDR Williamson, M Kadodwala and DA MacLaren
J Phys: Conf. Ser. 644 (2015) 012005

Beating the Stoner criterion using molecular interfaces
F Al Ma’Mari, T Moorsom, G Teobaldi, W Deacon, T Prokscha, H Luetkens, S Lee, GE Sterbinsky, DA Arena, DA MacLaren, M Flokstra, M Ali, MC Wheeler, G Burnell, BJ Hickey and O Cespedes
Nature 524 (2015) 69

Nanoscale mapping of the magnetic properties of (111)-oriented La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃
KJ O'Shea, DA MacLaren, D McGrouther, D Schwarzbach, M Jungbauer, S Hühn, V Moshnyaga and RL Stamps
NanoLetters 15 (2015) 5868

Metal Distributions, Efficient n-Type Doping, and Evidence for in-Gap States in TiNiMySn (M = Co, Ni, Cu) half-Heusler Nanocomposites
R A Downie, R I Smith, D A MacLaren, and J-W G Bos
Chem. Mater., 27 (2015) 2449

Opal-A in the Nakhla meteorite: A tracer of ephemeral liquid water in the Amazonian crust of Mars
M R Lee, I MacLaren, S M L Andersson, A Kovács, T Tomkinson, D F Mark, C L Smith
Meteoritics and Planetary Science (2015) 1362-1377

Utilising DualEELS to probe the nanoscale mechanisms of the corrosion of Zircaloy-4 in 350°C pressurised water
K J Annand, I MacLaren, M Gass
J. Nucl. Mater., 465 (2015) 390-399

Morphology and local electrical properties of PTB7:PC₇₁BM blends
A Alekseev, GJ Hedley, A Al-Afeef, OA Ageevd and IDW Samuel
J. Mat. Chem. A 3 (2015) 8706

On the origin of differential phase contrast at a locally charged and globally charge-compensated domain boundary in a polar-ordered material
I MacLaren, L Q Wang, D McGrouther, A J Craven, S McVitie, R Schierholz, A Kovács, J Barthel and R E Dunin-Borkowski
Ultramicroscopy 154 (2015) 58-63

Engineering Magnetic Domain-Wall Structure in Permalloy Nanowires
MJ Benitez, MA Basith, RJ Lamb, D McGrouther, S McFadzean, DA MacLaren, A Hrabec, CH Marrows and S McVitie
Phys. Rev. Applied 3 (2015) 034008

Order within disorder: The atomic structure of ion-beam sputtered amorphous tantala (a-Ta2O5),
R Bassiri, F Liou, MR Abernathy, AC Lin, N Kim, A Mehta, B Shyam, RL Byer, EK Gustafson, M Hart, I MacLaren, IW Martin, RK Route, S Rowan, JF Stebbins and MM Fejer,
APL Materials 3 (2015) 036103

Aberration corrected Lorentz scanning transmission electron microscopy
S McVitie, D McGrouther, S McFadzean, DA MacLaren, KJ O’Shea and MJ Benitez
Ultramicroscopy 152 (2015) 57

Metastable magnetic domain walls in cylindrical nanowires
CA Ferguson, DA MacLaren and S McVitie
J. Magn. Magn. Matter 381 (2015) 457

Concentric 360° domain wall nesting in magnetic tunnel junction films: a lorentz TEM study
KJ O’Shea, K Rode, H Kurt, D McGrouther and DA MacLaren
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48 (2015) 055001

Spectrum imaging of complex nanostructures using DualEELS: I. digital extraction replicas
J Bobynko, I MacLaren and AJ Craven
Ultramicroscopy 149 (2015) 9-20

The application of inelastic neutron scattering to investigate a hydrogen pre-treatment stage of an iron Fischer-Tropsch catalyst
R Warringham, NG Hamilton, IP Silverwood, C How, PB Webb, RP Tooze, W Zhou, CD Frost, SF Parker and D Lennon
Applied Catalysis A: General, 489 (2015) 209

Filming the formation and fluctuation of skyrmion domains by cryo-Lorentz transmission electron microscopy
J Rajeswaria, P Huang, G F Mancinia, Y Murookaa, T Latychevskaia, D McGrouther, M Cantoni, E Baldini, J S White,  A Magrez, T Giamarchi, H M Rønnow, and F Carbonea
PNAS 112 (2015) 14212–14217