Members of the FaRMS team are authors of newly accepted study entitled “Absence of Induced Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Uranium Dioxide Thin Films”, in the journal Physical Review B. The paper is in press, but there is a link to the preprint here. First author, William Thomas, carried out this work as part of his PhD, supervised by Ross Springell and Sven Friedemann. All of the samples grown in this study were fabricated using the FaRMS sputtering system, and key x-ray circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements were carried out at the ID12 beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. Congratulations William!
Month: February 2024
FaRMS Team member Dr. Lottie Harding at the ESRF in Grenoble
Dr. Lottie Harding, from the FaRMS team was recently at the BM20 (ROBL) experiment at the ESRF, Grenoble. As part of a team from Bristol and Sheffield, the valence states of uranium within a billion year old mineral were being probed.
Pictured above, (left to right): Prof. Claire Corkhill (University of Bristol), Aidan Friskney (Sheffield University), Dr. Lewis Blackburn (Sheffield University) and Dr. Lottie Harding (University of Bristol).