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submitted for publication (8)

Ion-gel-gating-induced oxygen vacancy formation in epitaxial La 0.5Sr0.5CoO 3- films from in operando x-ray and neutron scattering Jeff Walter, Biqiong Yu, Guichuan Yu, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, Julie Borchers, Zhan Zhang, Hua Zhou, Turan Birol, Martin Greven, and Chris Leighton.

Neutron Reflectivity and ToF-SIMS Studies of Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers Confined Between Graphene Oxide Sheets Ki-In Choi, Tae-Ho Kim, Yeonhee Lee, Hyeri Kim, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil Satija, Jae Hak Choi and Jaseung Koo.

Octahedral tilt independent magnetism in confined GdTiO3 films R. F. Need, B. J. Isaac, B. J. Kirby, J. A. Borchers, S. Stemmer, and Stephen D. Wilson.

Ionic Tuning of Cobaltites at the Nanoscale Dustin A. Gilbert, Alexander J. Grutter, Peyton Murray, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Alexander M. Kane, Aleksey L. Ionin, Steven R. Spurgeon, Brian J. Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, A. T. N’Diaye, Apurva Mehta, Elke Arenholz, Kai Liu, Yayoi Takamura, and Julie A. Borchers.

Quasistatic antiferromagnetism in the quantum wells of SmTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures R. F. Need, P. B. Marshall, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, Z. Salman, B. J. Kirby, S. Stemmer, M. J. Graf, and Stephen D. Wilson.

Topological transitions induced by antiferromagnetism in a thin-film topological insulator Qing Lin He, Gen Yin, Luyan Yu, Alexander J. Grutter, Lei Pan, Xufeng Kou, Xiaoyu Che, Guoqiang Yu, Tianxiao Nie, Bin Zhang, Qiming Shao, Koichi Murata, Xiaodan Zhu, Yabin Fan, Xiaodong Han, Brian J. Kirby, and Kang L. Wang.

Tunable Non-collinear Antiferromagnetic Resistive Memory through Oxide Superlattice Design Jason D. Hoffman, Stephen M. Wu, Brian J. Kirby, and Anand Bhattacharya.

Phonon Heat-Conduction Localization M. N. Luckyanova, J. Mendoza, H. Lu, S. Huang, J. Zhou, M. Li, B. J. Kirby, A. J. Grutter, M. Dresselhaus, A. Gossard, and G. Chen.

published in 2017 (7)

The tracer diffusion coefficient of soft nanoparticles in a linear polymer matrix Adam E. Imel, Sahar Rostom, Wade Holley, Durairaj Baskaran, J. W. Maysab and Mark D. Dadmun RSC Advances, 7, 15574 (2017).

Structural Delta Doping” to Control Local Magnetization in Isovalent Oxide Heterostructures E. J. Moon, Q. He, S. Ghosh, B. J. Kirby, S. T. Pantelides, A. Y. Borisevich, and S. J. May. Physical Review Letters, 119, 197204 (2017).

Dirac-electron-mediated magnetic proximity effect in topological insulator/magnetic insulator heterostructures Mingda Li, Qichen Song, Weiwei Zhao, Joseph A. Garlow, Te-Huan Liu, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, Jagadeesh S. Moodera, Moses H. W. Chan, Gang Chen, and Cui-Zu Chang. Physical Review B, 96, 201301 (2017).

Compensated Ferrimagnetism in the Zero-Moment Heusler Alloy Mn3Al Michelle E. Jamer, Yung Jui Wang, Gregory M. Stephen, Ian J. McDonald, Alexander J. Grutter, George E. Sterbinsky, Dario A. Arena, Julie A. Borchers, Brian J. Kirby, Laura H. Lewis, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil, and Don Heiman. Physical Review Applied, 7, 064036 (2017).

Magnetic properties of epitaxial CoCr films with depth-dependent exchange-coupling profiles Lorenzo Fallarino, Brian J. Kirby, Matteo Pancaldi, Patricia Riego, Andrew L. Balk, Casey W. Miller, Paolo Vavassori, and Andreas Berger. Physical Review B, 95, 134445 (2017).

Tailoring Exchange Couplings in Magnetic Topological Insulator/Antiferromagnet Heterostructures Qing Lin He, Xufeng Kou, Alexander J. Grutter, Lei Pan, Xiaoyu Che, Yuxiang Liu, Tianxiao Nie, Steven M. Disseler, Brian J. Kirby, William Ratcliff II, Qiming Shao, Koichi Murata, Yabin Fan, Mohammad Montazeri, Julie A. Borchers, and Kang L. Wang. Nature Materials, 16, 94 (2017).

Lateral Magnetically Modulated Multilayers by Combining Ion Implantation and Lithography Enric Menéndez, Hiwa Modarresi, Claire Petermann, Josep Nogués, Neus Domingo, Haoliang Liu, Brian Kirby, Amir Mohd, Salhi Zahir Amir, Earl Babcock, Stefan Mattauch, Chris Van Haesendonck, André Vantomme, and Kristiaan Temst. Small, 13, 1603465 (2017).

published in 2016 (15)

Structurally driven magnetic reconstructions at the interface of (111)-oriented La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/LaFeO3 I. Hallsteinsen, M. Moreau, A. Grutter, M. Nord, P-E. Vullum, D. A. Gilbert, T. Bolstad, J. K. Grepstad, R. Holmestad, S. M. Selbach, A. T. N’Diaye, B. J. Kirby, E. Arenholz, and T. Tybell. Physical Review B, 94, 047203 (2016).

Structure and Conductivity of Epitaxial Thin Films of In-doped BaZrO3 Based Proton Conductors Laura Mazzei, Max Wolff, Daniele Pergolesi, Joseph A. Dura, Lars Börjesson, Philipp Gutfreund, Marco Bettinelli, Thomas Lippert, and Maths Karlsson. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, 28415 (2016).

Oscillatory non-collinear magnetism induced by interfacial charge transfer in superlattices composed of metallic oxides Jason D. Hoffman, Brian J. Kirby, Jihwan Kwon, Gilberto Fabbris, Derek Meyers, John W. Freeland, Ivar Martin, Olle G. Heinonen, Paul Steadman, Hua Zhou, Christian M. Schlepütz, Mark P. M. Dean, Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis, Jian-Min Zuo, and Anand Bhattacharya. Physical Review X, 6, 041038 (2016).

Magnetic Yoking and Tunable Interactions in FePt-Based Hard/Soft Bilayers D. A. Gilbert, J. W. Liao, B. J. Kirby, M. Winklhofer, C. H. Lai, and K. Liu. Scientific Reports, 6, 32842 (2016).

Large energy product enhancement in perpendicularly coupled MnBi/CoFe magnetic bilayers T. R. Gao, L. Fang, S. Fackler, S. Maruyama, X. H. Zhang, L. L. Wang, T. Rana, P. Manchanda, A. Kashyap, K. Janicka, A. L. Wysocki, A. T. N’Diaye, E. Arenholz, J. A. Borchers, B. J. Kirby, B. B. Maranville, K. W. Sun, M. J. Kramer, V. P. Antropov, D. D. Johnson, R. Skomski, J. Cui, and I. Takeuchi Physical Review B, 94, 060411 (2016).

Control of Magnetic Interfaces Through Structurally Induced Symmetry Mismatch in Complex Oxide Superlattices A. J. Grutter, A. Vailionis, J. A. Borchers, B. J. Kirby, C. L. Flint, C. He, E. Arenholz, and Y. Suzuki. Nano Letters, 16, 5647 (2016).

Correlation Between Morphology and Device Performance of pBTTT:PC71BM Solar Cells Wenluan Zhang, Hao Shen, Brett W. Guralnick, Brian J. Kirby, Roddel Remy, Charles F. Majkrzak, and Michael E. Mackay. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 155, 387 (2016).

Beyond the Interface Limit: Structural and Magnetic Depth Profiles of Voltage-Controlled Magneto-Ionic Heterostructures Dustin A. Gilbert, Alexander J. Grutter, Elke Arenholz, Kai Liu, B. J. Kirby, Julie A. Borchers, and Brian B. Maranville. Nature Communications, 7, 12264 (2016).

Interface-driven ferromagnetism within the quantum wells of a rare earth titanate superlattice R. F. Need, B. J. Isaac, B. J. Kirby, J. A. Borchers, S. Stemmer, and Stephen D. Wilson. Physical Review Letters, 117, 037205 (2016).

Measurement and modeling of polarized specular neutron reflectivity in large magnetic fields Brian B. Maranville, Brian J. Kirby, Alex J. Grutter, Paul A. Kienzle, Yaohua Liu, and Charles F. Majkrzak. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 49, 1121, (2016)

Synthesis, Fabrication, and Heterostructure of Charged, Substituted Polystyrene Multilayer Dielectrics and Their Effects in Pentacene Transistors Olivia J. Alley, Evan Plunkett, Tejaswini S. Kale, Xin Guo, Grace McClintock, Manasa Bhupathiraju, B. J. Kirby, Daniel H. Reich, and Howard E. Katz. Macromolecules, 49, 3478 (2016).

Probing 2-D Magnetic Structures in a 3-D World A. J. Grutter. APL Materials, 4, 032402 (2016).

Controllable Positive Exchange Bias via Redox-Driven Oxygen Migration Dustin A. Gilbert, Justin Olamit, Randy K. Dumas, B. J. Kirby, Alexander J. Grutter, Brian B. Maranville, Elke Arenholz, Julie A. Borchers, and Kai Liu. Nature Communications, 7, 11050 (2016).

Reversible control of magnetism in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 through chemically-induced oxygen migration A. J. Grutter, D. A. Gilbert, U. S. Alaan, E. Arenholz, B. B. Maranville, J. A. Borchers, Y. Suzuki, Kai Liu, and B. J. Kirby. Applied Physics Letters, 108, 082405 (2016).

Spatial Evolution of the Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in an Exchange Graded Film B. J. Kirby, H. F. Belliveau, D. D. Belyea, P. A. Kienzle, A. J. Grutter, P. Riego, A. Berger, and Casey W. Miller. Physical Review Letters, 116, 047203 (2016).

published in 2015 (5)

Phase separation enhanced magneto-electric coupling in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/BaTiO3 ultra-thin films A. Alberca, C. Munuera, J. Azpeitia, B. Kirby, N. M. Nemes, A. Perez, J. Tornos, F. J. Mompean, C. Leon, J. Santamaria, and M. Garcia-Hernandez. Scientific Reports, 5, 17926 (2015).

Proximity Driven Enhanced Magnetic Order at Ferromagnetic Insulator / Magnetic Topological Insulator Interface Mingda Li, Cui-Zu Chang, Brian J. Kirby, Michelle Jamer, Wenping Cui, Lijun Wu, Peng Wei, Ferhat Katmis, Yimei Zhu, Don Heiman, Ju Li, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera. Physical Review Letters, 115, 087201 (2015).

Electric Field Control of Interfacial Ferromagnetism in CaMnO3/CaRuO3 Heterostructures A. J. Grutter, B. J. Kirby, M. T. Gray, C. L. Flint, U. S. Alaan, Y. Suzuki, and J. A. Borchers. Physical Review Letters, 115, 047601 (2015).

Effective anisotropy gradient in pressure graded [Co/Pd] multilayers B. J. Kirby, P. K. Greene, B. B. Maranville, J. E. Davies, and Kai Liu. Journal of Applied Physics, 117, 063905 (2015).

Fast strain wave induced magnetization changes in long cobalt bars: Domain motion versus coherent rotation S. Davis, J. A. Borchers, B. B. Maranville, and S. Adenwalla. Journal of Applied Physics, 117, 063904 (2015).

published in 2014 (11)

Surface segregation driven by molecular architecture asymmetry in polymer blends Jae Sik Lee, Nam-Heui Lee, Somesh Peri, Mark D. Foster, Charles F. Majkrzak, Renfeng Hu and David T. Wu. Physical Review Letters, 113, 225702 (2014).

Magnetocaloric Effect in Thin Films and Heterostructures Casey W. Miller, Dustin D. Belyea, and Brian J. Kirby. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A , 32, 040802 (2014).

Interfacial exchange coupling in Fe/(Ga,Mn)As bilayers A. M. Alsmadi, Y. Choi, D. J. Keavney, K. F. Eid, B. J. Kirby, X. Liu, J. Leiner, K. Tivakornsasithorn, M. Dobrowolska, and J. K. Furdyna. Physical Review B, 89, 224409 (2014).

Ferromagnetism and spin-dependent transport in n-type Mn-doped bismuth telluride thin films Joon Sue Lee, Anthony Richardella, David W. Rench, Robert D. Fraleigh, Thomas C. Flanagan, Julie A. Borchers, Jing Tao, and Nitin Samarth. Physical Review B, 89, 174424 (2014).

Deposition Order Dependent Magnetization Reversal in Pressure Graded Co/Pd films P. K. Greene, B. J. Kirby, J. W. Lau, J. A. Borchers, M. R. Fitzsimmons, and Kai Liu. Applied Physics Letters, 104, 152401 (2014).

Effect of interfacial octahedral behavior in ultrathin manganite films E. J. Moon, P. V Balachandran, B. J. Kirby, D. J. Keavney, R. J. Sichel-Tissot, C. M. Schleputz, E. Karapetrova, X. M. Cheng, J. M. Rondinelli, and S. J. May. Nano Letters, 14, 2509 (2014).

Determination of the effective transverse coherence of the neutron wave packet as employed in reflectivity investigations of condensed-matter structures. II. Analysis of elastic scattering using energy-gated wave packets with an application to neutron reflection from ruled gratings N. F. Berk. Physical Review A, 89, 033852 (2014).

Interdependence between training and magnetization reversal in granular Co-CoO exchange bias systems E. Menendez, T. Dias, J. Geshev, J. F. Lopez-Barbera, J. Nogues, R. Steitz, B. J. Kirby, J. A. Borchers, L. M. C. Pereira, A. Vantomme, and K. Temst. Physical Review B, 89, 144407 (2014).

Zooming in on disordered systems: Neutron reflection studies of proteins associated with fluid membranes Frank Heinrich, and Mathias Losche. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, published online March 25, 2014.

Myristoylation Restricts Orientation of the GRASP Domain on Membranes and Promotes Membrane Tethering Frank Heinrich, Hirsh Nanda, Goh Haw Zan, Collin Bachert, Mathias Losche and Adam D. Linstedt. Journal of Biological Chemistry, published online February 6, 2014.

Determination of the effective transverse coherence of the neutron wave packet as employed in reflectivity investigations of condensed matter structures Part I: Measurements Charles F. Majkrzak, Christopher Metting, Brian B. Maranville, Joseph A. Dura, Sushil Satija, Terrence Udovic, and Norman F. Berk. Physical Review A, 89, 033851 (2014).

Structural and Magnetic Etch Damage in CoFeB L. Krayer, J. W. Lau, and B. J. Kirby. Journal of Applied Physics, 115, 17B751 (2014).

published in 2013 (12)

Quantum confinement in oxide quantum wells Susanne Stemmer and Andrew J. Millis. MRS Bulletin, 38, 1032 (2013).

Structural control of magnetic anisotropy in a strain-driven multiferroic EuTiO3 thin film X. Ke, T. Birol, R. Misra, J.-H. Lee, B. J. Kirby, D. G. Schlom, C. J. Fennie, and J. W. Freeland. Physical Review B, 88, 094434 (2013).

Studies of Biomimetic Cellular Membranes Using Neutron Reflection Anton P. Le Brun, Tamim A. Darwish, and Michael James. Journal of Chemical and Biological Interfaces, 1, 3 (2013).

Effect of interface morphology on intermetallics formation upon annealing of Al–Ni multilayer Mitali Swain, Surendra Singh, Saibal Basu, and Mukul Gupta. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 576, 5 (2013).

Structure and Properties of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes with Unsaturated Anchor Molecules X. Rima Budvytyte, Gintaras Valincius, Gediminas Niaura, Vladislava Voiciuk, Mindaugas Mickevicius, Hilary Chapman, Haw-Zan Goh, Prabhanshu Shekhar, Frank Heinrich, Siddharth Shenoy, Mathias Lösche, and David J. Vanderah. Langmuir, 29, 8645 (2013).

Addition of a carbohydrate-binding module enhances cellulase penetration into cellulose substrates Vimalier Reyes-Ortiz, Richard A Heins, Gang Cheng, Edward Y Kim, Briana C Vernon, Ryan B Elandt, Paul D Adams, Kenneth L Sale, Masood Z Hadi, Blake A Simmons, Michael S Kent, and Danielle Tullman-Ercek. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 6, 93 (2013).

Magnetic depth profile in GaMnAs layers with vertically graded Mn concentrations J. Leiner, B. J. Kirby, M. R. Fitzsimmons, K. Tivakornsasithorn, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, and M. Dobrowolska. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 350, 135 (2014).

Ferromagnetism in Bi2Se3:Mn epitaxial layers H. J. von Bardeleben, J. L. Cantin, D. M. Zhang, A. Richardella, D. W. Rench, N. Samarth, and J. A. Borchers. Physical Review B, 88, 075149 (2013).

Characterizing formation of interfacial domain wall and exchange coupling strength in laminated exchange coupled composites H. -C. Hou, B. J. Kirby, K. Z. Gao, and C. -H. Lai. Applied Physics Letters, 102, 162408 (2013).

Morphological Characterization of Plastic Solar Cells Using Polarized Neutron Reflectivity B. W. Guralnick, B. J. Kirby, C. F. Majkrzak, and M. E. Mackay. Applied Physics Letters, 102, 083305 (2013).

Neutron Reflectometry Studies of the Adsorbed Structure of the Amelogenin, LRAP Barbara J. Tarasevich, Ursula Perez-Salas, David L. Masica, John Philo, Paul Kienzle, Susan Krueger, Charles F. Majkrzak, Jeffrey L. Gray, and Wendy J. Shaw The Journal of Chemical Chemistry B, 117, 3098 (2013).

Depth-resolved magnetization reversal in nanoporous perpendicular anisotropy multilayers B. J. Kirby, M. T. Rahman, R. K. Dumas, J. E. Davies, C. H. Lai, and Kai Liu. Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 033909 (2013).

published in 2012 (13)

Percolating bulk heterostructures from neutron reflectometry and small-angle scattering data Daniel P. Olds, Phillip M. Duxbury, Jonathan W. Kiel, and Michael E. Mackay. Physical Review E, 86, 061803 (2012).

Interfacial Ferromagnetism and Exchange Bias in CaRuO3/CaMnO3 Superlattices C. He, A. J. Grutter, M. Gu, N. D. Browning, Y. Takamura, B. J. Kirby, J. A. Borchers, J. W. Kim, M. R. Fitzsimmons, X. Zhai, V. V. Mehta, F. J. Wong, and Y. Suzuki. Physical Review Letters, 109, 197202 (2012).

Controlling Design of remnant magnetization FeCoV films as compact, heatless neutron spin rotators M. O. Abutaleb, D. A. Pushin, M. G. Huber, C. F. Majkrzak, M. Arif, and D. G. Cory. Applied Physics Letters, 101, 18 (2012).

Controlling Spin Ordering in Frustrated Magnets via Heteroepitaxy Jodi M. Iwata-Harms, Franklin J. Wong, B. J. Kirby, Julie A. Borchers, Michael F. Toney, Britney B. Nelson-Cheeseman, Marco Liberati, Elke Arenholz, and Yuri Suzuki. Physical Review B, 85, 214424 (2012).

Biomimetic supported lipid bilayers with high cholesterol content formed by a-helical peptide-induced vesicle fusion Gregory J. Hardy, Rahul Nayak, S. Munir Alam, Joseph G. Shapter, Frank Heinrich, and Stefan Zauscher. Journal of Materials Chemistry, published online, cite as: DOI: 10.1039/c2jm32016a, (2012).

Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Semiconductor Multilayers and Superlattices J. K. Furdyna, J. Leiner, X. Liu, M. Dobrowolska, S. Lee, J. -H. Chung, and B. J. Kirby. Acta Physica Polonica A, 121, 973 (2012).

How neutron scattering experiments can target the behavior of milk proteins C. Loupiac. Neutron News, 23, 22 (2012).

Membrane Association of the PTEN Tumor Suppressor: Molecular Details of the Protein-Membrane Complex from SPR Binding Studies and Neutron Reflection Siddharth Shenoy, Prabhanshu Shekhar, Frank Heinrich, Marie-Claire Daou, Arne Gericke, Alonzo H. Ross, Mathias Losche. PLoS ONE, 7, e32591 (2012).

Hydrogen distribution in Nb/Ta superlattices Max Wolff, Gunnar K Palsson, Panagiotis T Korelis, Joseph A Dura, Charles Majkrzak and Bjorgvin Hjorvarsson. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 24, 255306 (2012).

Optimization of Spin-Triplet Supercurrent in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions Carolin Klose, Trupti S. Khaire, Yixing Wang, W. P. Pratt, Jr., Norman O. Birge, B. J. McMorran, T. P. Ginley, J. A. Borchers, B. J. Kirby, B. B. Maranville, and J. Unguris. Physical Review Letters, 108, 127002 (2012).

Depth of alpha-Synuclein in a Bilayer Determined by Fluorescence, Neutron Reflectometry, and Computation Candace M. Pfefferkorn, Frank Heinrich, Alexander J. Sodt, Alexander S. Maltsev, Richard W. Pastor, and Jennifer C. Lee. Biophysical Journal, 102, 613 (2012).

Chiral modulations and reorientation effects in MnSi thin films E. A. Karhu, U. K. Robler, A. N. Bogdanov, S. Kahwaji, B. J. Kirby, H. Fritzsche, M. D. Robertson, C. F. Majkrzak, and T. L. Monchesky. Physical Review B, 85, 094429 (2012).

X-ray and neutron reflectivity and electronic properties of PCBM-poly(bromo)styrene blends and bilayers with poly(3-hexylthiophene) Stuart B. Kirschner, Nathaniel P. Smith, Kevin A. Wepasnick, Howard E. Katz, Brian J. Kirby, Julie A. Borchers, and Daniel H. Reich. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, 4364 (2012).

published in 2011 (18)

Phase-Sensitive Specular Neutron Reflectometry for Imaging the Nanometer Scale Compositional Depth Profile of Thin-Film Materials B. J. Kirby, P. A. Kienzle, B. B. Maranville, N. F. Berk, J. Krycka, F. Heinrich, and C.F. Majkrzak. Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.cocis.2011.11.001.

Continuous distribution model for the investigation of complex molecular architectures near interfaces with scattering techniques Prabhanshu Shekhar, Hirsh Nanda, Mathias Losche, and Frank Heinrich. Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 102216 (2011).

When beauty is only skin deep; optimizing the sensitivity of specular neutron reflectivity for probing structure beneath the surface of thin films Charles F. Majkrzak, Elisabeth Carpenter, Frank Heinrich, and Norman F. Berk. Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 102212 (2011).

Modulation Doping of Ferromagnetism in Antiferromagnetic Manganite Superlattices T. S. Santos, B. J. Kirby, S. Kumar, S. J. May, J. A. Borchers, B. B. Maranville, J. Zarestky, S. G. E. te Velthuis, J. van den Brink, and A. Bhattacharya. Physical Review Letters, 107, 167202 (2011).

Interfacial electronic and magnetic properties of a Y0.6 Pr0.4 Ba2 Cu3 O7 /La2/3 Ca1/2 MnO3 superlattice Jian Liu, B. J. Kirby, B. Gray, M. Kareev, H. -U. Habermeier, G. Cristiani, J. W. Freeland, and J. Chakhalian. Physical Review B, 84, 092506 (2011).

Helical magnetic order in MnSi thin films E. A. Karhu, S. Kahwaji, M. D. Robertson, H. Fritzsche, B. J. Kirby, C. F. Majkrzak, and T. L. Monchesky. Physical Review B, 84, 060404(R) (2011).

Fingerprinting magnetic reversal in graded anisotropy FePtCu films R. K. Dumas, Yeyu Fang, B. J. Kirby, Chaolin Zha, V. Bonanni, Josep Nogues, and Johan Åkerman. Physical Review B, 84, 054434 (2011).

Investigation of weak interlayer exchange coupling in GaMnAs/GaAs superlattices with insulating nonmagnetic spacers Jae-Ho Chung, Young-Sang Song, Taehee Yoo, Sun-Jae Chung, Sanghoon Lee, B. J. Kirby, X. Liu, and J. K. Furdyna. Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 013912 (2011).

Neutron Reflectometry and QCM-D Study of the Interaction of Cellulases with Films of Amorphous Cellulose G. Cheng, Z. Lius, J. K. Murton, M. Jablin, M. Dubey, J. Majewski, C. Halbert, J. Browning, J. Ankner, B. Akgun, C. Wang, A. R. Esker, K. L. Sale, B. A. Simmons, and M. S. Kent, Biomacromolecules, 12, 2216 (2011).

Porous Mg formation upon dehydrogenation of MgH2 thin films J. A. Dura, S. T. Kelly, P. A. Kienzle, J.-H. Her, T. J. Udovic, C. F. Majkrzak, C.-J. Chung, and B. M. Clemens, Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 093501 (2011).

Membrane-Based Sensing Approaches Julia Braunagel, Ann Junghans, and Ingo Koper, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 64, 54 (2011).

Antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between GaMnAs layers separated by a nonmagnetic GaAs:Be spacer J. Leiner, K. Tivakornsasithorn, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, M. Dobrowolska, B. J. Kirby, H. Lee, T. Yoo, and Sanghoon Lee. Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 07C307 (2011).

Probing Protein-Membrane Interactions Using Solid Supported Membranes Ann Junghans, Chloe Champagne, Philippe Cayot, Camille Loupiac, and Ingo Koper, Langmuir, 27, 2709 (2011).

Magnetization Reversal Mechanisms in Heusler Alloy Spin Valves T. P. Ginley, J. A. Borchers, B. J. Kirby, C. L. Dennis, M. J. Carey, and J. R. Childress. Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 07B110 (2011).

A neutron reflectivity study of the interfacial and thermal behaviour of surface-attached hairpin DNA T. H. M. Kjallman, A. J. Nelson, M. James, J. A. Dura, J. Travas-Sejdic and D. J. McGillivray, Soft Matter, 7, 5020 (2011).

Impact of interfacial magnetism on magnetocaloric properties of thin film heterostructures B. J. Kirby, J. W. Lau, D. V. Williams, C. A. Bauer, and Casey W. Miller, Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 063905 (2011).

The structural orientation of antibody layers bound to engineered biosensor surfaces Anton P. Le Brun, Stephen A. Holt, Deepan S.H. Shah, Charles F. Majkrzak, Jeremy H. Lakey, Biomaterials, 32, 3303 (2011).

HIV-1 Gag Extension: Conformational Changes Require Simultaneous Interaction with Membrane and Nucleic Acid Siddhartha A.K. Datta, Frank Heinrich, Sindhu Raghunandan, Susan Krueger, Joseph E. Curtis, Alan Rein, and Hirsh Nanda, Journal of Molecular Biology, 406, 205 (2011).

published in 2010 (10)

Structural Analysis of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes Ann Junghans and Ingo Koper, Langmuir, 26, 11035 (2010).

Observation of Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling in a GaMnAs/GaAs:Be/GaMnAs trilayer structure J. Leiner, H. Lee, T. Yoo, Sanghoon Lee, B. J. Kirby, K. Tivakornsasithorn, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, and M. Dobrowolska, Physical Review B, 82, 195205 (2010).

Deuterium-induced volume expansion in Fe0.5V0.5/V superlattices G. Palsson, V. Kapaklis, J. A. Dura, J. Jacob, S. Jayanetti, A. R. Rennei, and B. Hjörvarsson, Physical Review B, 82, 245424 (2010).

Variations in cross-link density with deposition pressure in ultrathin plasma polymerized benzene and octafluorocyclobutane films Someswara R. Peri, Brian Habersberger, Bulent Akgun, Hao Jiang, Jesse Enlow, Timothy J. Bunning, Charles F. Majkrzak, and Mark D. Foster Polymer, 51, 4390 (2010).

Phase-sensitive neutron reflectometry measurements applied in the study of photovoltaic films J. W. Kiel, M. E. Mackay, B. J. Kirby, B. B. Maranville, and C. F. Majkrzak Journal of Chemical Physics, 133, 074902 (2010).

Vertically graded anisotropy in Co/Pd multilayers B. J. Kirby, J. E. Davies, Kai Liu, S. M. Watson, G. T. Zimanyi, R. D. Shull, P. A. Kienzle, and J. A. Borchers Physical Review B, 81, 100405(R) (2010).

Application of Polarized Neutron Reflectometry and X-Ray Resonant Magnetic Reflectometry for Determining the Inhomogeneous Magnetic Structure in Fe/Gd Multilayers E. A. Kravtsov, D. Haskel, S. G. E. te Velthuis, J. S. Jiang, and B. J. Kirby, Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 74, 1471 (2010).

Growth kinetics of intermetallic alloy phase at the interfaces of a Ni/Al multilayer using polarized neutron and x-ray reflectometry Surendra Singh, Saibal Basu, M. Gupta, C. F. Majkrzak, and P. A. Kienzle, Physical Review B, 81, 235413 (2010).

Nanoparticle concentration profile in polymer-based solar cells J. W. Kiel, B. J. Kirby, C. F. Majkrzak, B. B. Maranville, and M. E. Mackay Soft Matter, 6, 641 (2010).

Giant magnetoresistance and long-range antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling in (Ga,Mn)As/GaAs:Be multilayers Sunjae Chung, Sanghoon Lee, J.-H. Chung, Taehe Yoo, B. Kirby, X. Liu, and J. K. Furdyna Physical Review B, 82, 054420 (2010).

published in 2009 (13)

Effect of molecular ordering on spin and charge injection in rubrene K. V. Raman, S. M. Watson, J. H. Shim, J. A. Borchers, J. Chang, and J. S. Moodera Physical Review B 80, 195212 (2009).

Internal Structure of Ultrathin Diblock Copolymer Brushes B. Akgun, G. Ugur, W. J. Brittain, C. F. Majkrzak, X. Li, J. Wang, H. Li, D. T. Wu, Q. Wang, and M. D. Foster Macromolocules, 42, 8411 (2009).

Multi-Lamellar Interface Structures in Nafion J. A. Dura, V. S. Murthi, M. Hartman, S. K. Satija, and C. F. Majkrzak, Macromolocules 42, 4769 (2009).

An ion-channel-containing model membrane: structural determination by magnetic contrast neutron reflectometry S. A. Holt, A. P. Le Brun, C. F. Majkrzak, D. J. McGillivray, F. Heinrich, M. Losche, and J. H. Lakery Soft Matter 5, 2576 (2009).

Ferromagnetic semiconductor GaMnAs: Magnetic anisotropy and Interlayer exchange coupling Sanghoon Lee, J. -H. Chung, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, and B. J. Kirby, Materials Today 12, 14 (2009).

Inhomogeneous magnetic states in Fe/Gd heterostructures probed by the complementary use of magnetic neutron and x-ray reflectometry E. Kravtsov, D. Haskel, S. G. E. te Velthuis, J. S. Jiang, and B. J. Kirby, Physical Review B 79, 134438 (2009).

A Molecular Beam Epitaxy Facility for In-Situ Neutron Scattering J. A. Dura and J. LaRock, Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 073906 (2009).

Neutron scattering study of the competing magnetic correlations in La0.85Sr0.15CoO3 D. Phelan, Despina Louca, S. N. Ancona, S. Rosenkranz, H. Zheng, and J. F. Mitchell, Physical Review B 79, 094420 (2009).

Anomalous Ferromagnetism in TbMnO3 Thin Films B. J. Kirby, D. Kan, A. Luykx, M. Murakami, D. Kundaliya, and I. Takeuchi, Journal of Applied Physics 105, 07D917 (2009).

Direct Observation of Magnetic Gradient in Co/Pd Pressure-Graded Media B. J. Kirby, S. M. Watson, J. E. Davies, Kai Liu, R. D. Shull, and J. A. Borchers, Journal of Applied Physics 105, 07C929 (2009).

Interlayer coupling in EuS/SrS, EuS/PbSe and EuS/PbTe magnetic semiconductor superlattices H. Kepa, C. F. Majkrzak, A. Sipatov, A. G. Fedorov, T. A. Samburskaya, and T. M. Giebultowicz, Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter 21, 124207 (2009).

Correlation between microstructure and magnetotransport in organic semiconductor spin-valve structures Y. Liu, S. M. Watson, T. Lee, J. M. Gorham, H. E. Katz, J. A. Borchers, H. D. Fairbrother, and D. H. Reich Physical Review B 79, 075312 (2009).

Ultra-thin SiO2 on Si IX: absolute measurements of the amount of silicon oxide as a thickness of SiO2 on Si M. P. Seah, W. E. S. Unger, Hai Wang, W. Jordaan, Th. Gross, J. A. Dura, Dae Won Moon, P. Totarong, M. Krumrey, R. Hauert and Mo Zhiqiang Surface and Interface Analysis 41, 430 (2009).

published in 2008 (14)

Carrier-Mediated Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Multilayers Ga[1-x]Mn[x]As / GaAs:Be J. -H Chung, S. J. Chung, Sanghoon Lee, B. J. Kirby, J. A. Borchers, Y. J. Cho, X. Liu, and J. K. Furdyna, Physical Review Letters 101, 237202 (2008).

Spiral spin structures and origin of the magnetoelectric coupling in YMn2O5 J.-H. Kim, S.-H. Lee, S. I. Park, M. Kenzelmann, A. B. Harris, J. Schefer, J.-H. Chung, C. F. Majkrzak, M. Takeda, S. Wakimoto, S. Y. Park, S-W. Cheong, M. Matsuda, H. Kimura, Y. Noda, and K. Kakurai, Physical Review B 78, 245115 (2008).

Soluble Amyloid Beta-Oligomers Affect Dielectric Membrane Properties by Bilayer Insertion and Domain Formation: Implications for Cell Toxicity G. Valincius, F. Heinrich, R. Budvytyte, D. J. Vanderah, D. J. McGillivray, Y. Sokolov, J. E. Hall, and M. Losche Biophysical Journal 95, 4845 (2008).

Ferromagnetism in CuO-ZnO multilayers C. Sudakar, K. Padmanabhan, R. Naik, G. Lawes, B. J. Kirby, Sanjiv Kumar, and V. M. Naik, Applied Physics Letters 93, 042502 (2008).

Interfacial Magnetic Domain Wall Formation in Perpendicular-Anisotropy, Exchange-Spring Films S.M. Watson, T. Hauet, J.A. Borchers, S. Mangin and E.E. Fullerton, Applied Physics Letters 92, 202507 (2008).

Effect of Structural Roughness on Domain Wall Formation in Spin Valves Using Off-specular Reflectivity Techniques Jun Park, S. M. Watson, C. M. Furjanic, D. K. Draganova, M. J. Carey, J. A. Borchers, C. Y. Chen, P. D. Sparks and J. C. Eckert, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 44, 2839 (2008).

The Influence of Growth Temperature and Annealing on the Magnetization Depth Profiles Across Ferromagnetic/Semiconductor Interfaces S. Park, M. R. Fitzsimmons, C. F. Majkrzak, B. D. Schultz, and C. J. Palmstrom, Journal of Applied Physics 104, 083905 (2008).

Monitoring the Assembly of Antibody-Binding Membrane Protein Arrays Using Polarised Neutron Reflection A. P. Le Brun, S. A. Holt, D. S. Shah, C. F. Majkrzak, and J. H. Lakey, Journal of European Biophysics 37, 639 (2008).

MnTe and ZnTe Grown on Sapphire by MBE E. Przezdziecka, E. Dynowska, W. Paszkowicz, W. Dobrowolski, H. Kepa, C.F. Majkrzak, T.M. Giebultowicz, E. Janik, and J. Kossut, Thin Solid Films 516, 4813 (2008).

New Sources and Instrumentation for Neutrons in Biology S. C. M. Teixeira, et al., Chemical Physics 345, 133 (2008).

Thickness of the Pinned Layer as a Controlling Factor in Domain Wall Formation During Training in IrMn-based Spin Valves J. Park, C. Furjanic, S. Eisenberg, D. Diaganova, J.A. Borchers, S.M. Watson, D.J. Tighe, P.A. Kienzle, M.J. Carey, P.D. Sparks and J.C. Eckert, Journal of Applied Physics 103, 07C111 (2008).

Relationship between tunnel magnetoresistance and magnetic layer structure in EuO-based tunnel junctions investigated using polarized neutron reflectivity S.M. Watson, T.S. Santos, J.A. Borchers, and J.S. Moodera, Journal of Applied Physics 103, 07A719 (2008).

Magnetization Reversal of Ga1-xMnxAs Layers Separated by a Non-Magnetic Spacer B.J. Kirby, J.A. Borchers, X. Liu, Z. Ge, Y.J. Cho, M. Dobrowolska, and J.K. Furdyna, Journal of Applied Physics 103, 07D116 (2008).

Temperature Dependence of the Magnetic Interlayer Ordering in Fe(3)/V(14)Hx (001) Superlattices Bjorgvin Hjorvarsson, G. Andersson, J.A. Dura, T.J. Udovic, P. Isberg, and C.F. Majkrzak, Superlattices and Microstructures 43, 101 (2008).

published in 2007 (11)

Nanoscale Magnetic Structure of Ferromangetic/Antiferromagnetic Manganite Multilayers D. Niebieskikwiat, L.E. Hueso, J.A. Borchers, N. D. Mathur and M.B. Salamon, Physical Review Letters 99, 247207 (2007).

Suppression of Nuclear Polarization near the Surface of Optically Pumped GaAs M.R. Fitzsimmons, B.J. Kirby, N.W. Hengartner, F. Trouw, M.J. Erickson, S.D. Flexner, T. Kondo, C. Adelmann, C.J. Palmstrom, P.A. Crowell, W. Chen, T.R. Gentile, J.A. Borchers, C.F. Majkrzak, and R. Pynn, Physical Review B 76, 245301 (2007).

Search for magnetic order in superconducting RuSr2Eu1.2Ce0.8Cu2O10 J. W. Lynn, Y. Chen, Q. Huang, S. K. Goh, and G. V. M. Williams Physical Review B 76, 014519 (2007).

Definitive Evidence of Interlayer Coupling Between Ga1-xMnxAs Layers Separated by a Non-Magnetic Spacer B.J. Kirby, J.A. Borchers, X. Liu, Z. Ge, Y.J. Cho, M. Dobrowolska, and J.K. Furdyna, Physical Review B 76, 205316 (2007).

Tuning Exchange-bias Properties by Thermal Effects in a Hard/Soft Bilayer T. Hauet, S. Mangin, F. Montaigne, J.A. Borchers, and Y. Henry, Applied Physics Letters 91, 022505 (2007).

Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Superlattices Studied by Polarized Neutron Reflectometry H. Kepa, C.F. Majkrzak, A. Yu. Sipatov, and T.M. Giebultowicz, Physica B 397, 36 (2007).

Determining the Structures of Layered Materials by Neutron Reflection C.F. Majkrzak, American Crystallographic Association RefleXions, Spring, 2007.

News from NCNR: Polarized 3He Neutron Spin Filters for NCNR Instruments W.C. Chen, J.A. Borchers, R. Erwin, T.R. Gentile, and J.W. Lynn, Notizario Neutroni E Luce di Sincrotrone 12, 17 (2007).

Neutron Reflectivity Investigations of EuS/PbS Superlattices Grown on (111) BaF2 Substrate H. Kepa, C.F. Majkrzak, A. Yu. Sipatov, Z.Q. Wiren, and T.M. Giebultuwicz, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 310, 2280 (2007).

Pinned Spin Depth Profile of an Overannealed, Exchange Biased, Oxidized-Mn/Ga1-xMnxAs Bilayer - the Effects of Overannealing B.J. Kirby, M.R. Fitzsimmons, J.A. Borchers, Z. Ge, X. Liu, and J.K. Furdyna, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 43, 3016 (2007).

Determination of Complex Magnetic Structures From Polarized Neutron Reflectivity Data by Flexible Modeling of Depth-Dependent Vector Magnetization A.D. Mont, P.A. Kienzle, S.M. Watson, J.A. Borchers, J. Eckert, P. Sparks, S. Moyerman, and M.J. Carey, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 43, 3346 (2007).

2006 (5)

Training Effect in an Exchange Bias System: The Role of Interfacial Domain Walls T. Hauet, J.A. Borchers, P. Mangin, Y. Henry, and S. Mangin, Physical Review Letters 96, 067207 (2006).

Magnetic and Chemical Nonuniformity in Ga1-xMnxAs Films as Probed by Polarized Neutron and X-Ray Reflectometry B.J. Kirby, J.A. Borchers, J.J. Rhyne, K.V. O'Donovan, S.G.E. te Velthuis, S. Roy, Cecilia Sanchez-Hanke, T. Wojtowicz, X. Liu, W.L. Lim, M. Dobrowolska, and J.K. Furdyna, Physical Review B 74, 245304 (2006).

Structural Investigations of Membranes of Interest in Biology C.F. Majkrzak, N.F. Berk, S. Krueger, and U.A. Perez-Salas, in Neutrons in Biology - Techniques and Applications, edited by J. Fitter, T. Gutberlet and J. Katsaras (Springer), (2006).

Magnetic Structure Variations During Giant Magnetoresistance Training in Spin Valves With Picoscale Antiferromagnetic Layers S. Moyerman, J.C. Eckert, J.A. Borchers, K.L. Perdue, M. Doucet, P.D. Sparks, and M.J. Carey, Journal of Applied Physics 99 (8), 08R505 (2006).

Ferromagnetic Relaxation in Spin Valves With Picoscale Antiferromagnetic Layers S. M. Moyerman, W. Gannett, J.A. Borchers, M. Doucet, M.J. Carey, P.D. Sparks, and J.C. Eckert, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 42 (10), 2630 (2006).

2005 (6)

Application of Polarized Neutron Reflectometry to Studies of Artificially Structured Magnetic Materials M.R. Fitzsimmons, and C.F. Majkrzak, in Modern Techniques for Characterizing Magnetic Materials, edited by Y. Zhu, (Springer) (2005).

Continuously Operating Compact 3He-based Neutron Spin Filter G.L. Jones, J. Baker, W.C. Chen, B. Collett, J.A. Cowan, M.F. Dias, T.R. Gentile, C. Hoffmann, T. Koetzle, W.T. Lee, K. Littrell, M. Miller, A. Schultz, W.M. Snow, X. Tong, H. Yan, and A. Yue, Physica B 356, 86 (2005).

Neutron Diffraction and Reflectivity Studies of Eu Chalcogenide Based Superlattices H. Kepa, C.F. Majkrzak, P. Sankowski, P. Kacman, and T.M. Giebultowicz, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 401, 238 (2005).

Effects of Capping on the Ga1-xMnxAs Magnetic Depth Profile B.J. Kirby, J.A. Borchers, J.J. Rhyne, K.V. O'Donovan,T. Wojtowicz, X. Liu, Z. Ge, S. Shen, and J.K. Furdyna, Applied Physics Letters 86, 072506 (2005).

Polarized Neutron Reflectometry C.F. Majkrzak, N.F. Berk, and K.V. O'Donovan in Neutron Scattering From Magnetic Materials, edited by T.K. Chatterji, (Elsevier Science) (2005).

Magnetization Profile in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Recording Media Michael F. Toney, Julie.A. Borchers, Kevin V. O'Donovan, and Charles F. Majkrzak, David T. Margulies, and Eric E. Fullerton, Applied Physics Letters 86, 162506 (2005).

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