5 papers
A Topotactic Phase Transition in the Uranium Oxide System
Jacek Wasik, Renaud Podor, Jarrod Lewis +4
A topotactic phase transition involves the transformation of one crystalline solid to another, which may include the loss or gain of material, where the orientation of the parent c…
Resistivity anomalies and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in superconducting thin film solid solutions of NbU for
Syed Akbar Hussain, Katie Brewer, Livina Onuegbu +4
Polycrystalline thin films of solid solutions with were prepared via d.c. magnetron sputtering at ambient conditions. X-ray…
Local Structure of Epitaxial Single Crystal UO Thin Films
Jarrod C. Lewis, Steven D. Conradson, Jacek Wasik +5
The influence of oxygen stoichiometry on the uranium local environment is explored in epitaxial single crystal uranium oxide thin films grown by DC magnetron sputtering. Through po…
Epitaxial thin film growth in the U-Ge binary system
Syed Akbar Hussain, Ali A. M. H. Jasem, Lottie M. Harding +2
We explore the U-Ge phase diagram using thin film growth by co-deposition of U and Ge via d.c. magnetron sputtering. Using three different single crystal substrates - MgO, CaF…
Structure and Phase Transitions of Metastable Hexagonal Uranium Thin Films
Rebecca Nicholls, Chris Bell, Johann Bouchet +2
We report a simple technique for the synthesis of uniaxially textured, metastable hexagonal close-packed-like uranium thin films with thicknesses between 175-2800 Å. The initial st…