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AUTHOR
Garry J. Mcintyre
Photostimulated luminescence properties of neutron image plates
Abstract The luminescence properties of two commercial neutron-sensitive image-plates based on Gd 2 O 3 -doped BaFBr:Eu 2 + storage phosphors are examined. These are white Fuji plates and blue Fuji plates (BAS-ND) with Gd 2 O 3 content by weight of 34% and 50%, respectively. Both plates show two maxima in the photostimulation spectrum near 500 nm and 600 nm, with the ratio of the peak responses ( I 600 nm / I 500 nm ) 1.39 and 0.53 for the white and blue plates respectively. The optimum wavelengths for photostimulation for the two phosphors are therefore different. The response of the blue plate is only 25% that of the white plate, if each is stimulated at its optimum wavelength.
Elastic and quasielastic neutron scattering studies in KBr:KCN mixed crystals
Neutron scattering studies in (KBr)1–x(KCN)x mixed crystals are presented utilizing powder diffraction, single crystal diffraction and time-of-flight techniques. Forx>0.6 (KBr)1–x(KCN)x crystals exhibit ferroelastic and ferroelectric low-temperature phases. Crystals withx<0.6 undergo transitions into an orientational glass state. Here we present a detailed phase diagram including new results for x=0.85 and x=0.65. For the latter system a stable rhombohedral low-temperature phase has been detected where the orientational disorder of the plastic phase is only partly removed and quadrupolar relaxations between three body diagonals are still possible. From the powder diffraction experimen…
Temperature- and pressure-dependent structural study of {Fe(pmd) 2[Ag(CN)2 ]2}n spin-crossover compound by neutron Laue diffraction
The effect of pressure (up to 0.17GPa) on the spin-crossover compound {Fe(pmd)2[Ag(CN)2]2} n [orthorhombic isomer (II), pmd = pyrimidine] has been investigated by temperature- and pressure-dependent neutron Laue diffraction and magnetometry. The cooperative high-spin ↔ low-spin transition, centred at ca 180K at ambient pressure, is shifted to higher temperatures as pressure is applied, showing a moderate sensitivity of the compound to pressure, since the spin transition is displaced by ca 140KGPa-1. The space-group symmetry (orthorhombic Pccn) remains unchanged over the pressure-temperature (P-T) range studied. The main structural consequence of the high-spin to low-spin transition is the c…
Neutron diffraction experiments on UCu4+xAl8−x
Abstract Neutron diffraction experiments are reported on UCu4+xAl8−x for concentrations 0.1≤ x ≤1.9 and temperatures 1.6 K≤T≤300 K. For x ≤ 1 these compounds undergo antiferromagnetic phase transitions into a collinear AF I-type structure. with the magnetic moments aligned along the tetragonal c-axis and alternating order within the a−b planes. With increasing concentration the ordering temperatures decrease and moment compensation due to a Kondo-type interaction develops for x>1.
Magnetic order in UCu4+xAl8−x
Abstract A neutron diffraction study has been performed on UCu4+xAl8−x. The compound was chosen as an example of a uranium-based system, which goes from a magnetically ordered state to a pure heavy-fermion state. In the range x = 0.25–1, UCu4+xAl8−x orders in a simple collinear antiferromagnetic structure. With increasing concentration of Cu, the ordering temperature decreases and moment compensation develops due to the increasing hybridization of the 5f electrons.