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Non-Collinear Magnetic Textures Studied By Neutron Scattering, Nan Tang
Non-Collinear Magnetic Textures Studied By Neutron Scattering, Nan Tang
Doctoral Dissertations
Non-collinear magnetic structures, where the magnetic moments do not align along a single axis, can lead to interesting physical phenomena and potential device applications. In this dissertation, two specific non-collinear magnetic textures are studied which includes soft/hard bilayer and skyrmions. Soft/hard magnetic bilayer thin films have been widely used in data storage technologies and permanent magnet applications. Here, we use polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) to study magnetic configuration in soft-hard bilayer heterostructure thin films designed with different sample geometry and material properties under a range of temperatures and fields. Comparing the PNR results to the micromagnetic simulations reveals that the …
Thin Film Combinatorial Synthesis Of Advanced Scintillation Materials, Jonathan Daniel Peak
Thin Film Combinatorial Synthesis Of Advanced Scintillation Materials, Jonathan Daniel Peak
Doctoral Dissertations
The development and application of a combinatorial sputtering thin film technique to screen potential scintillation material systems was investigated. The technique was first benchmarked by exploring the binary lutetium oxide-silicon oxide material system, which successfully identified the luminescence phases of the system, Lu2SiO5 (LSO) and Lu2Si2O7 (LPS). The second application was to optimize the activator concentration in cerium doped LSO. The successfully optimized cerium concentration in the thin film LSO of 0.34 atomic percent was much greater than the standard cerium concentration in single crystal LSO. This lead to an intensive study based on temperature dependent steady-state and lifetime photoluminescence …