Neutron research

News

Calibrating the Calibrator: The National Standard Neutron Source

January 17, 2017

Neutron detectors and sources play critical roles in national defense, homeland security, nuclear power plant control,...

In Search of ‘Sterile’ Neutrinos

December 09, 2016

Lately, neutrinos – the tiny, nearly massless particles that many scientists study to better understand the fundamental...

NIST Collaboration Heats Up Exotic Topological Insulators

October 31, 2016

Fashion is changing in the avant-garde world of next-generation computer component materials. Traditional...

Move Over, Lasers: Scientists Can Now Create Holograms from Neutrons, Too

October 20, 2016

For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

Publications

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of two-dimensional Rashba ferromagnets

November 03, 2016

Author(s):

KyoungWhan Kim, Kyung Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, Mark D. Stiles

We compute the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy within two-dimensional Rashba models. For a free- electron Rashba model with infinite band width and...

Effect of the Surface Charge Distribution on the Fluid Phase Behavior of Charged Colloids and Proteins

October 21, 2016

Author(s):

Marco A. Blanco Medina, Vincent K. Shen

A generic but simple model is presented to evaluate the eft ect of the heterogeneous surface charge distribution of proteins and zwitterionic nanoparticles on...

Atomistic Modelling of Scattering Data in the Collaborative Computational Project for Small Angle Scattering (CCP-SAS)¹

October 17, 2016

Author(s):

Stephen J. Perkins, David W. Wright, Hailiang NMN Zhang, Emre H. Brookes, Jianhan Chen, Thomas C. Irving, Susan Krueger, David J. Barlow, Karen J. Edler, David J. Scott, Nicholas J. Terrill, Stephen M. King, Paul Butler, Joseph Curtis

In solution scattering, the major investment worldwide in multiuser X-ray synchrotrons and neutron sources have resulted in huge advances in the throughput and...

Magnetic microscopy and simulation of strain-mediated control of magnetization in Ni/PMN-PT nanostructures

October 17, 2016

Author(s):

Ian J. Gilbert, Andres C. Chavez, Daniel T. Pierce, John Unguris, Wei-Yang Sun, Cheng-Yen Liang, Gregory P. Carman

Strain-mediated thin film multiferroics comprising piezoelectric/ferromagnetic heterostructures enable the electrical manipulation of magnetization with much...