5 papers
Tuneable Correlated Disorder in Alloys
D. Chaney, A. Castellano, A. Bosak +8
Understanding the role of disorder and the correlations that exist within it, is one of the defining challenges in contemporary materials science. However, there are few material s…
Comparing the Corrosion of Uranium Nitride and Uranium Dioxide Surfaces with H2O2
E. Lawrence Bright, S. Rennie, A. Siberry +4
Uranium mononitride, UN, is considered a potential accident tolerant fuel due to its high uranium density, high thermal conductivity, and high melting point. Compared with the rela…
The Role of Crystal Orientation in the Dissolution of UO Thin Films
S. Rennie, E. Lawrence Bright, J. E. Sutcliffe +5
Epitaxial thin films have been utilised to investigate the radiolytic dissolution of uranium dioxide interfaces. Thin films of UO deposited on single crystal yttria stabilised…
Epitaxial UN and -UN Thin Films
E. Lawrence Bright, S. Rennie, M. Cattelan +3
Single crystal epitaxial thin films of UN and UN have been grown for the first time by reactive DC magnetron sputtering. These films provide ideal samples for fundamental r…
Study of phonons in irradiated epitaxial thin films of UO
S. Rennie, E. Lawrence Bright, J. E. Darnbrough +6
We report experiments to determine the effect of radiation damage on the phonon spectra of the most common nuclear fuel, UO. We have irradiated thin ( 300 nm) epitaxial f…