2019 publications

Quantitative imaging of hybrid chiral spin textures in magnetic multilayer systems by Lorentz microscopy
K Fallon, S McVitie, W Legrand, F Ajejas, D Maccariello, S Collin, V Cros, N. Reyren
Phys. Rev. B 100 (2019) 214431

Heisenberg pseudo-exchange and emergent anisotropies in field-driven pinwheel artificial spin ice
G Paterson, G M Macauley, Y Li, R Macêdo, C Ferguson, S A Morley, M C Rosamond, E H Linfield, C H Marrows, R L Stamps, S McVitie
Phys. Rev. B 100 (2019) 174410

Pixelated Detectors in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Part I: Data Acquisition, Live Processing and Storage
M Nord, R W H Webster, K A Paton, S McVitie, D McGrouther, I MacLaren, G W Paterson
arXiv:1911.11560 and submitted to Microscopy and Microanalysis (2019)

Order and disorder in the magnetisation of the chiral crystal CrNb3S6
G W Paterson, T Koyama, M Shinozaki, Y Masaki, F J T Goncalves, Y Shimamoto, T Sogo, M Nord, Y Kousaka, Y Kato, S McVitie, Y Togawa
Phys. Rev. B 99 (2019) 224429

Strain analysis of a Ge micro disk using precession electron diffraction
A Bashir, R W Millar, K Gallacher, D J Paul, A D Darbal, R Stroud, A Ballabio, J Frigerio, G Isella, I MacLaren
arXiv:1906.02484 and J. Appl. Phys. 126 (2019) 235701.

Suppression of thermal conductivity without impeding electron mobility in n-type XNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectrics
SA Barczak, RJ Quinn, JE Halpin, K Domosud, RI Smith, AR Baker, E Don, I Forbes, K Refson, DA MacLaren and JWG Bos
Mater. Chem. A, 7 (2019), 27124

Strain Anisotropy and Magnetic Domains in Embedded Nanomagnets
M Nord, A Semisalova, A Kákay, G Hlawacek, I MacLaren, V Liersch, O M Volkov, D Makarov, G W Paterson, K Potzger, J Lindner, J Fassbender, D McGrouther, R Bali
Small (2019) doi:10.1002/smll.201904738

Spin-Hall Nano-Oscillator Simulations
J Bertram, A Tanwear, A Rodriguez, G Paterson , S McVitie, H Heidari, (2019).
IEEE Sensors 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada

Symmetry-breaking interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions in synthetic antiferromagnets
A Fernández-Pacheco, E Vedmedenko, F Ummelen, R Mansell, D Petit, R P Cowburn
Nature Materials 18 (2019), 679

Ultrafast generation and control of an electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near fields
G M Vanacore, G Berruto, I Madan, E Pomarico, P Biagioni, R J Lamb, D McGrouther, O Reinhardt, I Kaminer, B Barwick, H Larocque, V Grillo, E Karimi, F J Garcia de Abajo, F Carbon
Nature Materials 18 (2019) 573

Holographic imaging of electromagnetic fields via electron-light quantum interference
I Madan, G M Vanacore, E Pomarico, G Berruto, R J Lamb, D McGrouther
Science Advances 5 (5) (2019)

Focused Electron-Beam Induced Deposition, In Situ TEM And Off-Axis Electron Holography Investigation of Bi-Magnetic Core-Shell Nanostructures
T P Almeida, D McGrouther, A Kovács, R E Dunin-Borkowski, S McVitie
Microscopy and Microanalysis 25 (2) (2019)

Characterisation of a High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtered C/Mo/W Wear Resistant Coating by Transmission Electron Microscopy
J Sharp, I Castillo Müller, P Mandal, A Abbas, M Nord, A Doye, A Ehiasarian, P Hovsepian, I MacLaren, W M Rainforth
Surface and Coatings Technology 377 (2019) 124853.

A TEM and EELS study of carbon in melt fragments from the Gardnos impact structure
P Lindgren, L Hallis, F S Hage, M R Lee, J Parnell, A Doye, I MacLaren
Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences 54 (2019) 2698

Differential Phase Contrast Imaging of the Magnetostructural Transition and Phase Boundary Motion in Uniform and Gradient-doped FeRh-based Thin Films
T P Almeida, L Clark, R Temple, J Massey, T Moore, D McGrouther, C H Marrows, S McVitie
Microscopy and Microanalysis 25 (2) (2019)

An Electronically-Driven Improper Ferroelectric: Tungsten Bronzes as Microstructural Analogues for the Hexagonal Manganites
J A McNulty, T T Tran, P S Halasyamani, S J McCartan, I MacLaren, A S Gibbs, F Y J Lim, P W Turner, J M Gregg, P Lightfoot, F D Morrison
Adv. Mater., 31 (2019) 1903620.

High precision detection of change in intermediate range order of amorphous zirconia-doped tantala thin films due to annealing
K Prasai, J Jiang, A Mishkin, B Shyam, S Angelova, R Birney, D A Drabold, M Fazio, E K Gustafson, G Harry, S Hoback, J Hough, C Lévesque, I MacLaren, A Markosyan, I W Martin, C S Menoni, P G Murray, S Penn, S Reid, R Robie, S Rowan, F Schiettekatte, R Shink, A Turner, G Vajente, H-P Cheng, M M Fejer, A Mehta, R Bassiri
Phys. Rev. Lett., 123 (2019) 045501.

3D sub-nanoscale imaging of unit cell doubling due to octahedral tilting and cation modulation in strained perovskite thin films
M Nord, A Ross, D McGrouther, J Barthel, M Moreau, I Hallsteinsen, T Tybell, I MacLaren
Phys Rev. Mater., 3 (2019) 063605.

Mirror coating solution for the cryogenic Einstein telescope
K Craig, J Steinlechner, P G Murray, A S Bell, R Birney, M Hart, K Haughian, J Hough, I MacLaren, S Reid, R Robie, S Rowan, I W Martin
Phys. Rev. Lett., 122 (2019) 231102.

An in-situ approach for preparing atom probe tomography specimens by xenon plasma-focused ion beam
JE Halpin, RWH Webster, H Gardner, MP Moody, PAJ Bagot and DA MacLaren
Ultramicroscopy 202 (2019) 121.

Low thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance in AxCoSb (A = V, Nb or Ta) half-Heuslers with inherent vacancies
DA Ferluccio, JE Halpin, KL MacIntosh, RJ Quinn, E Don, RI Smith, DA MacLaren and J-WG Bos
J. Mat. Chem. C 7 (2019) 6539.

Performing EELS at higher energy losses at both 80 and 200 kV
I MacLaren, R B Cummings, F Gordon, E Frutos-Myro, S McFadzean, A P Brown, A J Craven
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics 210 (2019) 299-355.

Liftout of High-Quality Thin Sections of a Perovskite Oxide Thin Film Using a Xenon Plasma Focused Ion Beam Microscope
I MacLaren, M Nord, C Jiao, E Yücelen
Microscopy and Microanalysis 25 (2019) 115-118

Superferromagnetism and Domain-Wall Topologies in Artificial 'Pinwheel' Spin Ice
Y Li, GW Paterson, GM Macauley, FS Nascimento, C Ferguson, SA Morley, MC Rosamond, EH Linfield, DA MacLaren, R Macedo, CH Marrows, S McVitie, and RL Stamps
ACS Nano 13 (2019) 2213.

Spontaneous formation of nanostructures during pulsed laser deposition of epitaxial half-Heusler TiNiSn on MgO(001)
RWH Webster, JE Halpin, S R Popuri, J-WG. Bos, and DA MacLaren
APL Materials 7 (2019) 013206.

Anomalous Temperature Behavior of the Chiral Spin Helix in CrNb3S6 Thin Lamellae
Y Togawa, J Kishine, P A Nosov, T Koyama, G W Paterson, S McVitie, Y Kousaka, J Akimitsu, M Ogata, and A S Ovchinnikov
Phys Rev Lett 122 (2019) 017204