Beamlines | I16 - Case Studies

  • Robustness of the electronic properties of Spin-Orbit Mott Insulators from entanglement
    11 Apr 2013
    Transition metal oxides (TMO’s) containing a 5d element are increasingly attracting attention in the quest to discover and exploit novel electronic states.  In the case of the 5d TMOs, these More...
  • Complex multicolor tilings and critical phenomena in tetraphilic liquid crystals
    02 Jun 2011
    Solid-state materials, particularly those performing useful functions (e.g. zeolites), often form frameworks or cellular structures on the nanoscale1. These frameworks are usually rigid. Liquid crystals More...
  • Understanding the magnetostructural transition in epitaxial FeRh films
    02 Jun 2011
    Magnetic recording lies at the heart of many modern electronic devices. The density at which information can be stored is directy related to the size of the magnetic particles within the storage devices. More...
  • Coherent twinning in complex oxides
    01 Oct 2010
    The experiment undertaken on I16 showed strong evidence of twinning, from the ‘speckled’ Bragg peaks of manganites crystallites. This was consistent with a new theory of the connection between More...
  • A “forbidden” reflection determines crystal chirality
    29 Sep 2010
    We have demonstrated the use of a new technique for determining absolute crystal chirality by resonant X-ray diffraction of circularly polarized X-rays from a crystal of tellurium. The new approach is More...
  • Multi-Ferroics
    07 May 2008
    In Brief Multiferroics are materials in which ferroelectric and magnetic orders are closely related, opening the possibility for tuning the first one with the other and vice versa. This class of material More...
  • Reading Magnetic Memory
    04 Sep 2007
    David Eastwood is a post-graduate student working with Professor Brian Tanner at the University of Durham. David used I16 to carry out detailed examinations of new sensors to be used in computer More...