FaRMS researchers were at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, presenting an overview of the FaRMS capabilities to the NNUF network at the final celebratory meeting of all the NNUF Facilities.
Pictured: Dr. Lottie Harding and Dr. Chris Bell presenting to the NNUF network. Photo courtesy of Sofia Leadbetter.
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!
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).
Past and present members of FaRMS presented at the Uranium Science 2023 conference recently. This year the event ran from 5th – 7th July 2023 at the Henry Royce Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Past members E. Lawrence Bright, D. Chaney and J. Lewis all gave oral presentations, as well as current FaRMS team members F. Legg and C. Bell. Work by L. Harding was also presented as a poster.
Team members at the conference dinner at the Manchester Museum. From left to right: Florence Legg, Phil Hutchinson, Chris Bell, Dan Chaney, Ross Springell, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jarrod Lewis, Lottie Harding and Eleanor Lawrence Bright.