Curriculum Vitae - Dr Alan J Drew
Director of Graduate Studies
Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics
School of Physics & Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London
Address: 182 Butt Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3DT, UK
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1206 769373
Mob: +44 (0)7930 754643
Nationality: British
Academic/Research Positions
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October 2011 – Present
Lecturer, Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
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September 2008 - Present
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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September 2008 – August 2011
Leverhulme Fellow & Lecturer, Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of
London, UK.
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March 2008 – September 2008
Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
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Jan 2006 – Sept 2008
Lecturer (Oberassistant), Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Oct 2004 – September 2006
Research Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851; School of Physics
and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; and ETH
Zurich, Switzerland.
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Oct 2003 – Sept 2004
Research Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews.
Education
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Oct 2000 – Oct 2003
Ph.D. Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews.
Thesis title: Neutron Scattering and Muon-Spin Rotation Studies of Superconducting
Materials.
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Oct 1999 – Sept 2000
M.Phil. Materials Engineering (M.Res.), University of Birmingham.
A 1 year research masters and was focussed on measuring ab-plane and c-axis resistivity
measurements of BSCCO, in a temperature range of 4K to 1000K. The cryostat benefited
from in-situ oxygen or Nobel gas annealing.
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Sept 1996 – Sept 1999
2:1 B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics, University of Birmingham.
Standard Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Computing modules.
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Sept 1989 – June 1996
Wisbech Grammar School, Cambs.
Three A-levels, one AS-level and nine GCSE’s.
Knowledge Creation
Publications
See full list at the end; recent highlights:
• Four papers in Nature Materials since 2009.
• Five papers in Physical Review Letters since 2008.
• Further papers in preparation for/submitted to Physical Review Letters, Nature
Materials and Science in 2011 (see publication list below).
The nine high-profile publications above have enabled a strong international reputation, with
a strongly-rising citation count (~180 in 2010, ~140 in 2009) and numerous invitations to
conferences (see below).
International standing & position of responsibility
Presented (oral and poster) research 28 times in the period 2002-2007 and 32 times between
2008 and the present day. Some of these activities are detailed below.
Invited presentations at international conferences:
• SpinOS (Salt Lake City) February 2009: currently the world’s only dedicated organic
spintronics conference
• E-MRS (Warsaw), September 2009: Europe’s largest and most prestigious
conference on materials research. Invited, but unable to attend due to paternity leave.
• ASR2009, (Advanced Science Research Symposium, Tokai, Japan), November
2009: Conference on Positron, Muon and other exotic particle beams for materials
and molecular sciences, hosted by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency
• DFG Meeting, March 2010 (German Physical Society Annual Meeting, Regensburg,
German): invited speaker to “topical session on organic spintronics” at Europe’s
largest physics conference (5,500 delegates).
• NGSCES2010, May 2010 (Canary Islands, Spain): Conference on New Generation
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
• FGS-MP2010, July 2010 (Jyväskylä, Finland): Plenary speaker to the Finish
Materials Physics Graduate School.
• MuSR2011, May 2011 (Cancun, Mexico): Invited talk on spin penetration in organic
semiconductors
• MPAC-2011, September 2011 (Tokyo, Japan): Invited talk on excited states probed
with muons.
Positions of Responsibility
• Director of Graduate Studies, School of Physics & Astronomy, QMUL.
• On the organizing committee of SpinOS 2012 and instrumental to bringing it to
QMUL, in September 2012.
• On the advisory board of the MuSR 2014 conference.
• Organised a 2 days SEPNET workshop on Spintronics, September 2010, at QMUL.
Roughly 40 participants, including participants from fifteen different institutions and
eight countries.
• Member of an international panel of experts: Radioactive Beam Research, IAEA,
United Nations, Vienna
• Member of the STFC Framework Access Panel (FAP6)
• Member of the IOP Magnetism Group Committee, the STFC IUC Committee,
member of the review panel for the National Centre for Neutron Research, USA.
• Vice President for Europe for the International Society of Muon Spectroscopy
• Advisory board member for the NMI3 European Union FP7 project
International workshops, invited speaker:
• SμS08 (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland), January 2008
• MANEP Topical Meeting on superconducting iron-pnictides (Fribourg, Switerland),
May 2008.
• IAEA/United Nations Technical Meeting, July 2008 (Vancouver, Canada): exotic
beam research for advanced engineering materials.
• JUMP09, October 2009 (Villigen, Switzerland)
• SμS10 (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland), January 2010
• RAL High Field Meeting, October 2010 (Abingdon, Oxford)
• 1st Chinese-UK workshop on organic spintronics, August 2011
• Muon Graduate Winter School, March 2012 (Abingdon, Oxford)
Invited departmental colloquim (limited to 2008-11):
• April2008: School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, UK
• April 2009: Department of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, April 2009
• May 2009: Institute for Nanostructured Materials, CNR Bologna, Italy, May 2009
• November 2009: Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• January 2010: Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, UK
• Januarly 2011: Physics Department, University of Kaiserslautern, Gernany
• January 2011: Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, UK
• February 2011: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,
Bangalore, India
• February 2011: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
• February 2011: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
• February 2011: Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
• February 2011: Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
• February 2011: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
• February 2011: Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune, India
• September 2011: KEK, Tokai, Japan
• September 2011: RIKEN Institute, Tokyo, Japan
• September 2011: School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews
Research Income
Current funding, all as Primary Investigator (unless otherwise stated):
• £7,205 (2011-2012), EPSRC - Ferroelectric & multiferroic thin film growth
• £291,250 (2011), STFC – ISIS Beamtime Allocation
• £6,897 (2011), University of London – laser upgrade to the RIKEN-RAL facility.
• €300,980 (2011-2014), European Union FP7 – NMP small-medium scale focused
research project – “Next Generation Hybrid Interfaces for Spintronic Applications
(HINTS)”. Partner in a consortium of 8 institutions, including Prof. A. Fert (Nobel
Prize Winner, Physics 2007).
• £245,070 (2010), STFC – ISIS Beamtime Allocation
• £11,674 (2010-2011, Royal Society Equipment Grant “Equipment for performing
direct measurements of spin penetration in organic materials”
• £966 (2009), Royal Society International Travel Grant “Spin coherent transport in
organic materials: the effect of interfaces”.
• £199,080 (2009), STFC – ISIS Beamtime Allocation
• £57,707 (2009-2011), EPSRC “DTC in Plastic Electronics”.
• £267,447 (2009-2012), EPSRC “Investigation of intrinsic charge and spin transport
mechanisms in organic molecules”.
• £336,970 (2008), STFC – ISIS Beamtime Allocation
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£4,525 (2008-2011), STFC, ISIS Experiment Consumables.
£81,000 (2008 –2011), Early Career Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust.
CHF 600,000 (2007-2011), Swiss National Science Foundation (Independent
Research) 200020-119784: on the interplay of magnetic correlations with electronic
transport and superconductivity in oxides with strongly correlated charge carriers
and subsequent multilayers. Co-investigator (PI:Prof. C. Bernhard).
CHF 330,000 (2007-2011), Swiss National Science Foundation (R’Equip) 206021117403: Awarded for a multipurpose chemical vapour deposition system and
carousel for sample transfer from existing pulsed laser deposition system. Coinvestigator (PI: Prof K Fromm).
CHF 800,000 (2006-2009) FriMat private donation: Awarded for part payment of
pulsed laser deposition system and staff/consumables, for epitaxial perovskite oxide
growth. Co-investigator (PI:Prof. C. Bernhard).
CHF 250,000 (2006-2008), Swiss National Science Foundation (R’Equip) 206021113057: Awarded part payment for pulsed laser deposition system for epitaxial
perovskite oxide growth. Co-investigator (PI:Prof. C. Bernhard).
£3,162 (2005), Royal Society International Short Visit: Awarded travel expenses for
equipment development: Low Energy Muon Spin Rotation. Primary Investigator.
£50,000 (2004 –2006), Research Fellowship of the Royal Commission for the
Exhibition of 1851: Awarded salary and research expenses.
Future Grant Applications/Research Income:
• €1,380,288, European Union FP7 (consortium leader) – Open-FET: Engineering
Multiferroic Materials for Advanced Technology, Submitted July 2011. Decision
imminent.
• €1,976,891, European Union FP7 (primary investigator)– ERC starting grant: Muon
Spectroscopy of Excited States. Submitted October 2011. Decision late spring 2012.
• €3,678,998, European Union FP7 (consortium leader) – Muon spectroscopy – an
advanced materials study. Submitted December 2011. Decision Summer 2012.
• £2,500,000 (approx), EPSRC Critical Mass Scheme (consortium leader) – The
interplay between local disorder and macroscopic order in multiferroics materials.
Due for submission early 2012.
Supervision PhD/PDRAs
Completed M.Res. students:
• Phil Shusharov, QMUL 2009-10
Completed PhD students:
• Dr Justin Hoppler, University of Fribourg 2006-8
• Dr Leander Schulz, University of Fribourg/QMUL: 2007-10
Current PhD students:
• Maureen Willis, QMUL: 2009-present
• Carlos Aristizabal, QMUL: 2010-present
• Hongtao Zhang, QMUL: 2010-present
• Shou Han, QMUL: 2011-present
• Viswanathan Mohandoss, QMUL: 2011-present
Postdoctoral Researchers:
• Dr. Laura Nuccio, 2009-2012
• Dr Sijie Zhang, 2012
• Dr Pratik Desai, 2011-14
Knowledge Dissemination
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching:
• Academic year 2007-7:
o Management of 1st year physics laboratory with around 180 students per
year. Labs are run twice per week and contain 25 different experiments. In
addition to teaching students (in German or English), responsibilities include
experiment development, training of laboratory assistants, general problem
solving and the organisation/management of the labs. Made a successful case
to the faculty for a CHF 200,000 upgrade to equipment, although I moved to
QMUL before the upgrade was complete. New equipment included a waveoptics experiment, michealson interferometer and a speed of sound
experiment.
• Academic year 2007-8:
o Lecture course (4th year): Solid State Magnetism. Responsible for six hours
of lectures, exercises and examination.
o Management of 1st year physics laboratory with around 180 students per
year. Installation of new experiments.
• Academic year 2008-9:
o Management of 1st year physics laboratory with around 180 students per
year. Installation of new experiments.
• Academic year 2009-10:
o Lectured electromagnetic fields to 1st year engineering undergraduates; full
33 hour lecture course, semester B. Engineers and physicists took the same
course, but it was found that in previous years, the Engineer’s background
was different to that of the physicists and it was therefore decided to split
teaching. I taught the engineers, spending considerable time on developing
their mathematical skills to cope with the course. In later years, this course
was no longer offered to the engineers.
o Supervised three undergraduate projects (summer 2010), on optical
spectroscopy, muon spectroscopy and Monte Carlo simulations. Two of the
undergraduates will get high-impact papers from their projects (they are
currently being written up).
• Academic year 2010-11:
o Synoptic physics to 3rd/4th year physics undergraduates; 2 tutorials / week,
semester 1.
o Supervised an undergraduate project; 2 hours / week, both semesters
• Academic year 2011-12:
Lectured electromagnetic fields to 1st year physics undergraduates; full 33
hour lecture course, semester B.
Postgraduate teaching:
• Academic year 2009-10:
o Organized and lectured at a 2 day postgraduate winter school on condensed
matter physics; 16 hours, 2nd semester. Roughly 25 students (15 from QMUL
and 10 from Imperial) attended.
o Gave a lecture to Finish Materials Physics Graduate School on organic
spintronics, July 2010.
• Academic year 2010-11:
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o Organized and lectured at a 2 day postgraduate winter school on condensed
matter physics; 16 hours, 2nd semester. Roughly 20 students (10 from QMUL
and 10 from Imperial) attended.
Academic year 2011-12:
o Organized and lectured at a 2 day postgraduate winter school on condensed
matter physics; 16 hours, 2nd semester. Roughly 20 students (10 from QMUL
and 10 from Imperial) attended.
o CCMMP graduate lecture course: lecture course on presentation skills and
muon spectroscopy.
o Muon Graduate Training Course: lecture course on diffusion phenomena
measured by muon spectroscopy.
Research Outreach
• As a result of Nature Materials 8, 310 - 314 (2009):
o News article featured in Superconductor Week [Volume 23, No. 3, March
23rd 2009]
o Multiple other news articles featured in various online and in-print
publications. (A Google search for: “Alan Drew superconductor pnictide”
gives many relevant hits.)
• As a result of Nature Materials 8, 109 - 114 (2009):
o News article featured on the German national broadcaster’s website
(equivalent of the BBC):
[http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/0/0,3672,7487872,00.html – link no
longer active]
o To be featured in the editorial, interview, commentary and a progress article
in the special issue of Nature Materials September 2009.
o Multiple other news articles featured in various online and in-print
publications (e.g Science Daily, Innovations Report, Science Codex; Google
search for: Alan Drew data storage)
• Research highlighted in the PSI Annual 2008 report, distributed to the general public
and politicians in Switzerland.
• As a result of Physical Review Letters 100, 116601 (2008):
o Research highlighted in the ISIS Experimental Report 2009
o Research Highlight to appear in Materials Today, August issue.
• As a result of Nature Materials 8, 315 - 319 (2009)
o Research highlighted in the PSI Annual 2008 report, distributed to the
general public and politicians in Switzerland.
• As a result of Nature Materials 10, 39 (2011)
o Multiple other news articles featured in various online and in-print
publications (e.g redorbit.com, sceincedaily, esciencenews, nanowerk)
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1963487/elusive_spintronics_success
_could_lead_to_single_chip_for_processing/index.html
• Filmed on campus performing practical demonstrations and interviewed as an expert
for the Discovery Science documentary “Electric Human”, broadcast spring 2010.
Enabling Activities
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School of Physics representative for the iQM working body, a £2.9m EPSRC
Knowledge Transfer Award.
QMUL representative on the £6.9m QMUL-Imperial DTC in plastic electronics;
improved returns for College when negotiating contract (an extra 5% of an
administrative support, clean room running costs).
School of Physics Director of Graduate Studies:
o Increased postghraduate student intake from 8 in 2008 to 31 in 2012.
Trippled student numbers in 3 years.
o Implementing new procedures to improve PhD completion rates (enhanced
role of 2nd supervisor, closer monitoring of students, willingness to take
action on failing students, new formal assessment procedures at regular
intervals, improved student recruitment).
o Implemented a new advertising strategy to increase the quality of
postgraduate research student applications to physics.
o Responsible for postgraduate recruitment strategy and communicating this to
the School and central administration (for example, by writing part of the
School’s PAR documentation).
o Introducing a pastoral care program for incoming CSC students to Physics
(10 students this year), to help them adjust to their new environment.
o Actively supporting the design and building of the Research Management
Module for SITS and a member of the steering group for this project.
o A member of the College Appeals Panel (postgraduate student, stage 3 of
appeal), Assessment Offences Panel and Student Disciplinary Committee.
o Building links between with Indian research institutes/universities and
QMUL, with a view to exploiting future bi-lateral funding (e.g UKIERI),
setting up internship programs for Indian masters students to do projects in
Physics and increasing the quality and number of Indian PhD applications to
Physics.
Chair of School of Physics Graduate Degrees Committee and a member of the
School of Physics Research Committee and IT Committee.
Contributed analysis and guidance to the internal review of the CMP group, which
changed practices on research grant applications and set up an internal review panel
for papers and proposals.
Contributing (with two other members of the CMP group) to the departmental and
CMP research strategy; as a result, Prof. Martin Dove (from Cambridge) is joining
CMP, along with considerable investment in further positions in CMP.
Acting as a mentor to more senior members of staff in CMP, with a remit of
increasing research grant and high-profile publication success rates.
Full Publication List
* denotes A. Drew is the corresponding author.
Under Review/In Preparation
*42. Control of charge carrier injection energy levels at ferromagnetic-organic interfaces
H. Zhang et al., in preparation for Physical Review Letters.
*41. Determination of the hyperfine coupling constants of muoniated radicals in
Tetracene, TIPS-Pentacene and TMS-Pentacene
L. Schulz et al., in preparation for Hyperfine Interactions.
40.
Modelling +ve and -ve organic magnetoresistance in organic light emitting diodes
WP Gillin et al., in preparation for Physical Review B
* 39. Acentric spin glass driven by a spin cant transition in BiFeO3
C. Aristizabal et al., in preparation for J. Phys. Cond. Matt.
* 38. Direct observation of room temperature magneto-electric coupling in
Ba3Dy2GaNb9O30
D. Arnold et al., submitted to Science
* 37. Spin orbit driven electron spin relaxation in organic semiconductors
L. Nuccio et al., submitted to Nature Materials
2012
* 36. The role of interfaces in organic spin valves revealed through spectroscopic and
transport measurements
AJ Drew et al., Physica Status Solidi 249, 9 (2012)
2011
* 35. The importance of intra-molecular spin relaxation in small molecular semiconductors
L. Schulz et al., et al., Phys. Rev. B 84, 085209 (2011)
* 34. Muon Spin Spectroscopy
AJ Drew, Meson, Meson 33, 19 (2011)
* 33. Engineering the hybrid organic-inorganic interface for spintronic applications
L Schulz et al., Nature Materials 10, 39 (2011)
2010
* 32. Electron spin relaxation in organic semiconductors probed through muSR
L Nuccio et al., Accepted, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. (2010)
31.
Determining the influence of excited states on current transport in OLEDs using
magnetic perturbation.
WP Gillin et al., Phys. Rev. B 82, 195208 (2010)
30.
The effect of excited states and applied magnetic fields on the measured hole
mobility in an organic semiconductor
JY Song, et al., Phys. Rev. B 82, 085205 (2010)
29.
Coexistence and competition of magnetism and superconductivity on the nanometer
scale in underdoped BaFe1.89Co0.11As2
P Marsik, et al., Physical Review Letters 105, 057001 (2010)
2009
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Elucidating the role of hyperfine interactions on organic magnetoresistance using
deuterated aluminium tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)
NJ Rolfe et al., Physical Review B 80, 241201(R) (2009)
* 27. Using Spin Polarised Neutron Reflectivity to Probe Mesoscopic Vortex States in a
Thin Film Superconductor
AJ Drew et al., Physical Review B 80, 134510 (2009)
* 26. Muons create better understanding of organic semiconductors
AJ Drew, Materials Today 12, issue 7-8, 69 (2009)
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Electronic phase separation in the slightly underdoped iron pnictide superconductor
Ba1−xKxFe2As2
JT Park et al., Physical Review Letters 102, 117006 (2009)
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Muon spin rotation study of magnetism and superconductivity in BaFe2-xCoxAs2 and
Pr1-xSrxFeAsO
C Bernhard et al., New Journal of Physics 11, 055050 (2009)
* 23. Coexistence of static magnetism and superconductivity in SmFeAsO1-xFx as revealed
by muon spin rotation
AJ Drew, et al., Nature Materials 8, 310 - 314 (2009)
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Giant superconductivity-induced modulation of the ferromagnetic magnetization in a
cuprate-manganite superlattice
J. Hoppler, et al., Nature Materials 8, 315 - 319 (2009)
* 21. Direct measurement of the electronic spin diffusion length in a fully functional
organic spin valve by low-energy muon spin rotation
AJ Drew, et al., Nature Materials 8, 109 - 114 (2009).
2008
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Superconducting energy gap and c-axis plasma frequency of (Nd,Sm)FeAsO0.82F0.18
superconductors from infrared ellipsometry
A Dubroka et al., Physical Review Letters 101, 097011 (2008)
* 19. Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in the pnictide high temperature
superconductor SmO0.82F0.18FeAs measured by muon spin rotation
AJ Drew et al., Physical Review Letters 101, 097010 (2008)
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Intrinsic Mobility Limit for Anisotropic Electron Transport in Alq3
AJ Drew et al., Physical Review Letters 100, 116601 (2008)
2007
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Muon-spin rotation study of magnetism in NaxCoO2 single crystals with 0.78 ≤ x ≤
0.97
C Bernhard et al., Europhysics Letters 80, 27005 (2007)
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Polarised neutron reflectivity investigation of periodic magnetic rings
FY Ogrin et al., IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 43, 2731 (2007)
2006
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Muons as local probes of three-body correlations in the mixed state of type-II
superconductors
GI Menon, et al., Physical Review Letters 97, 177004 (2006)
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Neutron scattering investigations of the Abrikosov state of high-temperature
superconductors
J Chang et al., Physica B, 385-386, 35 (2006)
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Driven vortices in type-II superconductors: A muon spin rotation study
D Charalambous et al., Physical Review B 73, 104514 (2006)
* 12. MuSR measurements on the vortex lattice of La1.83Sr0.17CuO4+d
A Drew et al., Physica B 374, 203 (2006)
* 11. Muon spin rotation measurements on LaNiSn
A Drew et al., Physica B 374, 270 (2006)
2005
* 10. Coexistence and coupling of superconductivity and magnetism in thin film structures
A Drew et al., Physical Review Letters 95, 197201 (2005)
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Combined neutron scattering and muon-spin rotation investigations of the Abrikosov
state of high-temperature superconductors
J Mesot et al., Proceedings of SPIE 5932, 374 (2005)
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Square vortex lattice in electron-doped Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4
R Gilardi et al., Physical Review Letters 93, 217001 (2004)
Field-induced hexagonal to square transition of the vortex lattice in overdoped
La1.8Sr0.2CuO4+d
R Gilard et al., Physica C 408-410, 491, (2004)
Direct observation of the flux-line vortex glass phase in a type II superconductor
U Divakar et al., Physical Review Letters 92, 237004 (2004)
Novel characterisation of coupled magnetic and superconductor order in thin film
hybrid structures.
AJ Drew et al., Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. EXS-3, EE9.3, (2004)
2003
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A small angle neutron scattering study of the vortex matter in La1.83Sr0.17CuO4+d
R Gilardi et al., International Journal of Modern Physics B, 17, 3411, (2003)
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mSR studies of magnetic superconductors based on the BETS molecule
FL Pratt et al., Polyhedron 22, 2307, (2003)
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Angle-dependent vortex structure in a high anisotropy superconductor
FL Pratt et al., Physica B 326, 374 (2003)
2002
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Direct evidence for an intrinsic square vortex lattice in the overdoped high-Tc
superconductor La1.83Sr0.17CuO4+d
R Gilardi et al., Physical Review Letters 88, 217003, (2002)