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A review of uranium-based thin films
R. Springell, E. Lawrence Bright, D. A. Chaney +4
Thin films based on silicon and transition-metal elements dominate the semiconducting industry and are ubiquitous in all modern devices. Films have also been produced in the rare-e…
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…
Thermal Energy Transport in Oxide Nuclear Fuel
David H. Hurley, Anter El-Azab, Matthew S. Bryan +13
To efficiently capture the energy of the nuclear bond, advanced nuclear reactor concepts seek solid fuels that must withstand unprecedented temperature and radiation extremes. In t…
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…
Synchrotron x-ray scattering of UN and U2N3 epitaxial films
E. Lawrence Bright, R. Springell, D. G. Porter +2
We examine the magnetic ordering of UN and of a closely related nitride, U2N3, by preparing thin epitaxial films and using synchrotron x-ray techniques. The magnetic configuration…
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…