Materials and Condensed Matter Physics

2016 publications

Imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces
TTA Lummen, RJ Lamb, G Berruto, T LaGrange, L Dal Negro, FJ García de Abajo, D McGrouther, B Barwick & F Carbone
Nature Communications 7 (2016), 13156

Towards Mapping Perovskite Oxide 3-D Structure Using Two-Dimensional Pixelated STEM Detector
M Nord, A Ross, I Hallsteinsen, T Tybell, I MacLaren
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22 [S3] (2016) 476-477

The Role of Grain Boundary Dislocations in the Segregation-Induced Grain Boundary Embrittlement of Copper by Bismuth
C A Wade, I MacLaren, R P Vinci, M Watanabe
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22 [S3] (2016) 1264-1265

Developing Rapid and Advanced Visualisation of Magnetic Structures Using 2-D Pixelated STEM Detectors
M Nord, M Krajnak, R Bali, G Hlawacek, V Liersch, J Fassbender, S McVitie, G W Paterson, I Maclaren, D McGrouther
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22 [S3] (2016) 530-531

Combining STEM Imaging and EELS Mapping to Understand the Growth of La2CoMnO6 Double Perovskites on (111) Oriented Perovskite Substrates
I MacLaren, T-M Yu, B Sala, D Hernandez-Maldonado, D Kepaptsoglou, J Kleibeuker, E-M Choi, J L MacManus-Driscoll
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22 [S3] (2016) 1520-1521

Identifying the Carrier of Martian Water in the Nakhla Meteorite
M Lee, I MacLaren
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22 [S3] (2016) 1806-1807

Spin wave power flow and caustics in ultrathin ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Joo-Von Kim, Robert L. Stamps, and Robert E. Camley
Phys.  Rev. Lett. 117 (2016) 197204

Internal structure of hexagonal skyrmion lattices in cubic helimagnets
McGrouther, D., Lamb, R.J., Krajnak, M., McFadzean, S., McVitie, S., Stamps, R.L., Leonov, A.O., Bogdanov, A.N., and Togawa, Y.
New Journal of Physics, 18 (2016) 095004

Medipix3 Demonstration and understanding of near ideal detector performance for 60 & 80 keV electrons
JA Mir, R Clough, R MacInnes, C Gough, R Plackett, I Shipsey, H Sawada, I MacLaren, R Ballabriga, D Maneuski, V O'Shea, D McGrouther, AI Kirkland,
arXiv:1608.07586 (2016)

Tunable focusing in natural hyperbolic magnetic media
Macêdo, R., Dumelow, T., and Stamps, R. L.
ACS Photonics, 3 (2016) 1670-1677

Chiral surface twists and skyrmion stability in nanolayers of cubic helimagnets
Leonov, A. O. et al.
Physical Review Letters, 117 (2016) 087202

Competing anisotropies in exchange-biased nanostructured thin films
Goncalves, F.J.T., Paterson, G.W., Stamps, R.L., O'Reilly, S., Bowman, R., Gubbiotti, G., and Schmool, D.S.
Physical Review B, 94 (2016) 054417

Reconfigurable wave band structure of an artificial square ice
Iacocca, E., Gliga, S., Stamps, R. L., and Heinonen, O.
Physical Review B, 93 (2016) 134420.

Spin-orbit interaction enhancement in permalloy thin films by Pt doping
Hrabec, A., Gonçalves, F.J.T., Spencer, C.S., Arenholz, E., N'Diaye, A.T., Stamps, R.L., and Marrows, C. H.
Physical Review B, 93 (2016) 014432.

Spin-wave eigenmodes of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls
Borys, P., Garcia-Sanchez, F., Kim, J.-V., and Stamps, R. L.
Advanced Electronic Materials, 2 (2016) 1500202

The effect of substrate clamping on the paraelectric to antiferroelectric phase transition in Nd-doped BiFeO₃ thin films,
H R Zhang, K Kalantari, D M Marincel, S Trolier-McKinstry, I MacLaren, Q M Ramasse, W M Rainforth, I M Reaney
Thin Solid Films 616 (2016) 767-772

Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain,
BA Maher, IAM Ahmed, V Karloukovski, DA MacLaren, PG Foulds, D Allsop, DMA Mann, R Torres-Jardón, and L Calderon-Garciduenas
PNAS 113 (2016) 10797

Accurate measurement of absolute experimental inelastic mean free paths and EELS differential cross-sections,
A J Craven, J Bobynko, B Sala, I MacLaren,
Ultramicroscopy 170 (2016) 113-127

Linear chemically sensitive electron tomography using DualEELS and dictionary-based compressed sensing,
A AlAfeef , J Bobynko, W P Cockshott, A J Craven, I Zuazo, P Barges, I MacLaren,
Ultramicroscopy 170 (2016) 96-106 

Dynamical Torque in Co_xFe_3–xO₄ Nanocube Thin Films Characterized by Femtosecond Magneto-Optics: A π-Shift Control of the Magnetization Precession,
M Vomir, R Turnbull, I Birced, P Parreira, DA MacLaren, SL Lee, P André and J-Y Bigot,
NanoLetters 16 (2016) 5291

Seed layer technique for high quality epitaxial manganite films,
P Graziosi, A Gambardella, M Calbucci, K O’Shea, DA MacLaren, A Riminucci, I Bergenti, S Fugattini, M Prezioso, N Homonnay, G Schmidt, D Pullini, D Busquets-Mataix and V Dediu
AIP Adv. 6 (2016) 085109

Gadolinium-doped magnetite nanoparticles from a single-source precursor,
FJ Douglas, DA MacLaren, N Maclean, I Andreu, FJ Kettles, F Tuna, CC Berry, M Castroc and M Murrie
RSC Adv. 6 (2016) 74500

Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films,
E-J Guo, J Cramer, A Kehlberger, CA Ferguson, DA MacLaren, G Jakob and M Kläui
Phys. Rev. X 6 (2016) 031012

Electron Tomography Image Reconstruction using Data-Driven Adaptive Compressed Sensing,
A Al-Afeef, W P Cockshott, I MacLaren, S McVitie
Scanning 38 (2016) 251-276

Pixelated detectors and improved efficiency for magnetic imaging in STEM differential phase contrast,
M Krajnak, D McGrouther, D Maneuski, V O' Shea and S McVitie
Ultramicroscopy 165 (2016) 42

Direct visualization of the thermomagnetic behavior of pseudo–single-domain magnetite particles,
TP. Almeida, AR. Muxworthy, A Kovács, W Williams, PD. Brown and RE. Dunin-Borkowski
Science Advances 2 (2016) e1501801

Designing a fully compensated half-metallic ferrimagnet,
M Žic, K Rode, N Thiyagarajah, Y-C Lau, D Betto, JMD Coey, S Sanvito, KJ O'Shea, CA Ferguson, DA MacLaren and T Archer
Phys. Rev. B 93 (2016) 140202(R)

Tungsten Bronze Barium Neodymium Titanate (Ba_6–3nNd_8+2nTi₁₈O₅₄): An Intrinsic Nanostructured Material and Its Defect Distribution,
F Azough, R J Cernik, B Schaffer, D Kepaptsoglou, Q M Ramasse, M Bigatti, A Ali, I MacLaren, J Barthel, M Molinari, J D Baran, S C Parker and R Freer
Inorg. Chem. 55 (2016) 3338-3350

Mid-infrared intersubband absorption from p-Ge quantum wells grown on Si substrates,
K Gallacher, A Ballabio, R W Millar, J Frigerio, A Bashir, I MacLaren, G Isella, M Ortolani and D J Paul
Appl. Phys. Lett. 108 (2016) 091114

Analysis of Ge micro-cavities with in-plane tensile strains above 2 %,
R W Millar, K Gallacher, J Frigerio, A Ballabio, A Bashir, I MacLaren, G Isella, D J Paul
Optics Express 24 (2016) 4365-4374

Order, disorder and mixing: The atomic structure of amorphous mixtures of titania and tantala,
R Bassiri, M R Abernathy, F Liou, A Mehta, E Gustafson, M J Hart, H N Isa, N Kim, A C Lin, I MacLaren, I W Martin, R K Route, S Rowan, B Shyam, J F Stebbins, M M Fejer
J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 438 (2016) 59-66

Stability, bistability and instability of amorphous ZrO2 resistive memory devices,
P Parreira, G W Paterson, S McVitie and D A MacLaren.
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 (2016) 095111

Medium range structural order in amorphous tantala spatially resolved with changes to atomic structure by thermal annealing,
M J Hart, R Bassiri, K B Borisenko, M Véron, E F Rauch, I W Martin, S Rowan, M M Fejer, I MacLaren
J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 438 (2016) 10-17

Maghemite-like regions at the crossing of two antiphase boundaries in doped BiFeO₃
J M Salih, L Q Wang, Q M Ramasse, L Jones, J Barthel, I M Reaney, A J Craven, I MacLaren
Mater. Sci. Techn. 32 (2016)