Support morphology affects nanoparticle adsorption
Chi-Ming Yim, working as a postdoc in the LCN group of Geoff Thornton, has discovered an intriguing phenomenon in adsorption properties of nanoparticles. Low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) experiments, carried out in the LCN, have allowed direct...
Escaping the quantum critical singularity; modulated magnetism in PrPtAI
The transition between ferromagnetism and paramagnetism in metals is one of the simplest examples of a continuous phase transition. Interesting behaviour is expected when the transition temperature becomes small because incoherent fluctuations above the transition...
A light touch to reading electron spins
Scientists at the LCN have shown a new way of reading electron spins, which eliminates the need for powerful magnetic fields and reduces the reliance on very low temperatures. The study is published this week in the journal Nature Materials. One of the fundamental...