Project overview
X-ray diffraction is the main technique by which scientists and engineers study the structures of crystalline materials, however some sample types are often neglected due to the requirement for specialised instrumentation and expertise. This proposal provides advanced equipment to apply diffraction and related methods to a series of lesser-studied sample types of great importance in technology and in understanding environmental processes. These include thin layers of material on surfaces, where information about atomic separations, particle sizes, crystal orientation and changes in the size of the lattice due to interactions with the underlying material can be obtained. This will be critical to the understanding of a range of functional materials with applications in energy conversion and storage, electronics, optoelectronics and engineering. It will also be possible to study very small regions of a material, this is important in examination of single components or regions of a sample where variations are important in understanding properties. Sample types include minerals, where the structure of individual grains will contribute to knowledge of interactions with the environment, and single components of grids of material designed to have specific interactions with light.
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Research outputs
Bigeng Chen, Xingshi Yu, Xia Chen, Milan Milošević, David Thomson, Ali Khokhar, Shinichi Saito, Otto Muskens & Graham Reed,
2018, Optics Express, 26(19), 24953-24963
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.024953
Type: article
Roberto Mirabal-Rojas, Sandra E. Rodil, Giovanni Ramirez, Tomas Polcar, Enrique Camps & Ali Erdemir,
2018, Surface and Coatings Technology, 349, 111-118
Type: article
Guoyao Chen, Jiangbing Du, Lin Sun, Lifang Zheng, Ke Xu, Hon Ki Tsang, Xia Chen, Graham T. Reed & Zuyuan He,
2018, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 36(18), 4106-4113
Type: article
Chunlei Sun, Wenhao Wu, Yu Yu, Guanyu Chen, Xinliang Zhang, Xia Chen, David J. Thomson & Graham T. Reed,
2018, Nanophotonics, 7(9), 1571-1580
Type: article
Gabriela Kissling, Ruomeng Huang, Andrew Jolleys, Sophie L Benjamin, Andrew L. Hector, Gillian Reid, William Levason, Cornelis De Groot & Philip N. Bartlett,
2018, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 165(11), D557-D567
DOI: 10.1149/2.0981811jes
Type: article
Sophie Benjamin, Cornelis De Groot, Chitra Gurnani, Samantha, Louise Hawken, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Marek Jura, William Levason, Eleanor Reid, Gillian Reid, Stephen Richards & Gavin B.G. Stenning,
2018, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6(29), 7734-7739
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC01285G
Type: article