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Dr. Ross McDonald

Staff Member
LANL, Pulsed Field Facility

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Phone: 505 - 665-3857
Fax: 505 - 665-4311
Address: Pulsed Field Facility
TA35, Bldg. 127, MS E536, Room D102
Los Alamos , NM 87545-

Awards, Honors & Service:
Outstanding Postdoc Oral Presentation in Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory Championing Scientific Careers Conference (2003-present)



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Publications and Scientific Activities

##Peer-Reviewed Publications
1 Bauer, E.D.; Altarawneh, M.M.; Tobash, P.H.; Gofryk, K.; Ayala-Valenzuela, O.E.; Mitchell, J.N.; McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H.; Ronning, F.; Griveau, J-C.; Colineau, E.; Eloirdi, R.; Caciuffo, R.; Scott, B.L.; Janka, O.; Kauzlarich, S.M. and Thompson, J.D., Localized 5f electrons in superconducting PuCoIn5: consequences for superconductivity in PuCoGa5, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 24 (052206), 6 (2012) [read online]
2 Goddard, P.A.; Manson, J.L.; Singleton, J.; Franke, I.; Lancaster, T.; Steele, A.J.; Blundell, S.J.; Baines, C.; Pratt, F.; McDonald, R.D.; Valenzuela, O.A.; Sengupta, P.; Corbeyl, J.F.; Southerland, H.I. and Schlueter, J.A., Dimensionality switching in molecule-based magnets, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108 (7), 077208 (2012) [read online]
3 Graf, D.; Stillwell, R.; Murphy, T.P.; Park, J.-H.; Palm, E.C.; Schlottmann, P.; McDonald, R.D.; Analytis, J.A.; Fisher, I.R. and Tozer, S.W., Pressure dependence of the BaF2As2 Fermi surface within the spin density wave state, Phys. Rev. B, 85, 134503 (2012)
4 Kohama, Y.; Wang, S.; Uchida, A.; Prsa, K.; Zvyagin, S.; Skourski, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Balicas, L.; Ronnow, H.M.; Rüegg, C. and Jaime, M., Anisotropic Cascade of Field-Induced Phase Transitions in the Frustrated Spin-Ladder System BiCu2PO6, Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 167204 (2012)
5 Mun, E.; Ni, N.; Allred, J.M.; Cava, R.J.; Ayala, O.; McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N. and Zapf, V.S., Anisotropic Hc2 up to 92 T and the signature of multiband superconductivity in Ca10(Pt4As8)((Fe1−xPtx)2As2)5, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 85 (10), 100502(R) (2012) [read online]
6 Schlueter, J.A. ; Park, H.; Halder, G.J.; Armand, W.R.; Dunmars, C.; Chapman, K.W.; Manson, J.L.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.; Polnczak, A.; Kang, J.; Lee, C.; Whangbo, M.-H.; Lancaster, T.; Steele, A.J.; Franke, I.; Wright, J.D.; Blundell, S.J.; Pratt, F.L.; deGeorge, J.; Turnbull, M.M. and Landee, C.P., Importance of halogen---halogen contacts for the structural and magnetic properties of CuX2(pyrazine-N,N'-dioxide)(H2O)2 (x = Cl & Br)., Inorg. Chem., 51 (4), 2121-2129 (2012) [read online]
7 Ueland, B.G.; Miclea, C.F.; Kato, Y.; Ayala-Valenzuela, O.; McDonald, R.D.; Okazaki, R.; Tobash, P.H.; Torrez, M.A.; Ronning, F.; Movshovich, R.; Fisk, Z.; Bauer, E.D.; Martin, I. and Thompson, J.D., Controllable chirality-induced geometrical Hall effect in a frustrated highly correlated metal, Nature, 3, 1067 (2012)
8 Zhang, S.X.; McDonald, R.D.; Shekhter, A.; Bi, Z.X.; Li, Y.; Jia, Q.X. and Picraux, S.T., Magneto-resistance up to 60 Tesla in topological insulator Bi2Te3 thin films, Appl. Phys. Lett., 101 (20), 202403 (2012)
9 Altarawneh, M.M.; Harrison, N.; McDonald, R.D.; Balakirev, F.F.; Mielke, C.H.; Tobash, P.H.; Zhu, J.-X.; Thompson, J.D.; Ronning, F. and Bauer, E.D., Fermi surface of CePt2In7: A two-dimensional analog of CeIn3, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 081103 (2011) [read online]
10 Kohama, Y.; Jaime, M.; Ayala-Valenzuela, O.E.; McDonald, R.D.; Mun, E.D.; Corbey, J.F. and Manson, J.L., Field-induced XY and Ising ground states in a quasi-two-dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet, Phys. Rev. B, 84, 184402 (2011) [read online]
11 Manson, J.L.; Warter, M.L.; Schlueter, J.A.; Lancaster, T.; Steele, A.J.; Blundell, S.J.; Pratt, F.L.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Lee, C.; Whangbo, M.-H. and Plonczak, A., [Cu(HF2)2(pyrazine)]n: A Rectangular Antiferromagnetic Lattice with a Spin Exchange Path Made Up of Two Different FHF- Bridges, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 1573-1576 (2011) [read online]
12 Manson, J.L; Lapidus, S.H.; Stephens, P.W.; Peterson, P.K.; Carreiro, K.E.; Southerland, H.; Lancaster, T.; Blundell, S.J.; Steele, A.J.; Goddard, P.A.; Pratt, F.L.; Singleton, J.; Kohama, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Del Sesto, R.E. Smith, N.A.; Bendix, O.J.; Zvyagin, S.A.; Kang, J.; Lee, C.; Whangbo, M.; Zapf, V.S. and Plonczak, A., Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of Quasi-1D Quantum Magnets [Ni(HF2)(pyz)2]X (pyz = pyrazine; X = PF6-, SbF6-) Exhibiting Ni-FHF-Ni and Ni-pyz-Ni Spin Interactions, Inorg. Chem., 50 (13), 5990-6009 (2011)
13 Moll, P.J.W.; Kanter, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Balakirev, F.F.; Blaha, P.; Schwarz, K.; Bukowski, Z.; Zhigadlo, N.D.; Katrych, S.; Mattenberger, K.; Karpinski, J. and Batlogg, B., Quantum oscillations of the superconductor LaRu2P2: Comparable mass enhancement lambda approximate to 1 in Ru and Fe phosphides, Phys. Rev. B, 84, 224507 (2011) [read online]
14 Weyeneth, S.; Moll, P.J.W.; Puzniak, R.; Ninios, K.; Balakirev, F.F.; McDonald, R.D.; Chan, H.B.; Zhigadlo, N.D.; Katrych, S.; Bukowski, Z.; Karpinski, J.; Keller, H.; Batlogg, B. and Balicas, L., Rearrangement of the antiferromagnetic ordering at high magnetic fields in SmFeAsO and SmFeAsO0.9F0.1 single crystals, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 134503 (2011)
15 Analytis, J.G.; Chu, J.H.; Chen, Y.L.; Corredor, F.; McDonald, R.D.; et al., Bulk Fermi surface coexistence with Dirac surface state in Bi2Se3: A comparison of photoemission and Shubnikov-de Haas measurements, Phys. Rev. B, 81 (20), 205407 (2010)
16 Analytis, J.G.; Chu, J.H.; McDonald, R.D.; Riggs, S.C. and Fisher I.R., Enhanced Fermi-Surface Nesting in Superconducting BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 Revealed by the de Haas-van Alphen Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105 (20), 207004 (2010) [read online]
17 Analytis, J.S.; McDonald, R.D.; Riggs, S.C.; Chu, J.-H; Boebinger, G.S. and Fisher, I.R., Two-dimensional surface state in the quantum limit of a topological insulator, Nature Physics, DOI: 10.1038 (NPHYS1861), 1-4 (2010)
18 Cox, S.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Migliori, A. and Littlewood, P.B., Sliding charge-density waves in manganites, Nature Materials, 9, 689 (2010)
19 Manson, J.L.; Schlueter, J.A.; McDonald, R.D. and Singleton, J., Crystal Structure and Antiferromagnetic Ordering of Quasi-2D [Cu(HF(2)(pyz)(2)]TaF6 (pyz=pyrazine), J. Low Temp. Phys., 159 (1-2), 15-19 (2010)
20 Singleton, J.; de la Cruz, C.; McDonald, R.D.; Li, S.; Altarawneh, M.; Goddard, P.; Franke, I.; Rickel, D.G.; Mielke, C.H.; Yao, X. and Dai, P., Magnetic quantum oscillations in YBa2Cu3O6.69 in fields up to 85 T: Patching the hole in the roof of the superconducting dome, Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 086403 (2010)
21 White, J.L., Lee, C., Gunaydin-Sen, O., Tung, L.C., Christen, H.H., Wang, Y.J., Turnbull, M.M., Landee, C.P., McDonald, R.D., Crooker, S.A., Singleton, J., Whangbo, M.-H., and Musfeldt, J.L., Magneto-optical properties and charge-spin coupling in the molecular(2,3-dmpyH)2CuBr4 spin ladder material, Phys. Rev. B, 81, 052407 (2010)
22 Aczel, A.A.; Kohama, Y.; Marcenat, C.; Weickert, F.; Jaime, M.; Ayala-Valenzuela, O.E.; McDonald, R.D.; Selesnic, S.D.; Dabkowska, H.A. and Luke, G.M., Field-Induced Bose-Einstein Condensation of Triplons up to 8K in Sr3Cr2O8, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 207203 (2009)
23 Alsmadi, A.M.; Alyones, S.; Mielke, C.H.; McDonald, R.D.; Zapf, V.; Altarawneh, M.M.; Lacerda, A.; Chang, S.; Adak, S.; Kothapalli, K. and Nakotte, H., Complex conductivity of UTX compounds in high magnetic fields, J. Appl. Phys., 105, 07E108 (2009) [read online]
24 Alsmadi, M.; Alyones, S.; Mielke, C.H.; McDonald, R.D.; Zapf, V.; Altarawneh, M.M.; Lacerda, A.; Chang, S.; Adak, S.; Kothapalli, K. and Nakotte, H., Radio-Frequency Measurements of UNiX Compounds (X = Al, Ga, Ge) in High Magnetic Fields, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 321, 3712–3718 (2009) [read online]
25 Analytis, J.G.; McDonald, R.D.; Chu, J.-H.; Riggs, S.C.; Bangura, A.F.; Kucharczyk, C.; Johannes, M. and Fisher, I.R., Quantum oscillations in the parent pnictide BaFe2As2: itinerant electrons in the reconstructed state, Phys. Rev. B, 80, 064507 (2009)
26 Coldea, A.I.; Andrew, C.M.; Analytis, J.G.; McDonald, R.D;. Bangura, A.F.; Chu, J.-H; Fisher, I.R. and Carrington, A., Topological Change of the Fermi Surface in Ternary Iron Pnictides with Reduced c/a Ratio: A de Haas–van Alphen Study of CaFe2P2, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 026404 (2009) [read online]
27 Copping, R.; Talbot-Eeckelaers, C.; Collison, D.; Helliwell, M.; Gaunt, A.J.; May, I.; Reilly; S.D.; Scott, B.L.; McDonald, R.D.; Ayala-Valenzuela, O.; Jones, J.C. and Sarsfield, M.J., Probing the 5f electrons in a plutonyl(VI) cluster complex, Dalton Trans. Chem., 10 (1039), 908648 (2009)
28 Cox, S.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Migliori, A. and Littlewood, P.B., Transport properties of La0.5Ca0.5MnO3, a highly disordered charge-density wave system, Physica B, 404, 433-436 (2009)
29 Manson, J.L.; Schlueter, J.A.; Funk, K.A.; Southerland, H.I.; Twamley, B.; Lancaster, T.; Blundell, S.J.; Baker, P.J.; Pratt, F.L.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Goddard, P.A.; Sengupta, P.; Batista, C.D.; Ding, L.; Lee, C.; Whangbo, M.-H.; Franke, I.; Cox, S.; Baines, C. and Trial, D., Strong H⋯F hydrogen bonds as synthons in polymeric quantum magnets: Structural, magnetic, and theoretical characterization of [Cu(HF 2)(pyrazine)2]SbF6, [Cu2F(HF) (HF2)(pyrazine)4](SbF6)2, and [CuAg(H3F4)(pyrazine)5](SbF6) 2, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6733-6747 (2009)
30 Manson, J.L.; Stone, K.H.; Southerland, H.I.; Lancaster, T.; Steele, A.J.; Blundell, S.J.; Pratt, F.L.; Baker, P.J.; McDonald, R.D.; Sengupta, P.; Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Lee, C.; Whangbo, M.H.; Warter, M.M.; Mielke, C.H. and Stephens, P.W., Characterization of the Antiferromagnetism in Ag(pyz)(2)(S2O8) (pyz = Pyrazine) with a Two-Dimensional Square Lattice of Ag2+ Ions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 (13), 4590-4620 (2009)
31 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N. and Singleton, J., Exact mapping of the dx2−y2 Cooper-pair wavefunction onto the spin fluctuations in cuprates: the Fermi surface as a driver for 'high Tc' superconductivity, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 21, 012201 (2009)
32 Purcell, K.M.; Graf, D.; Kano, M.; Bourg, J.; Palm, E.C.; Murphy, T.; McDonald, R.; Mielke, C.H.; Altarawneh, M.M.; Petrovic, C.; Hu, R.; Ebihara, T.; Cooley, J.; Schlottmann, P. and Tozer, S.W., Pressure evolution of a field-induced Fermi surface reconstruction and of the Néel critical field in CeIn3, Phys. Rev. B, 79, 214428 (2009)
33 Riggs, S.C.; McDonald, R.D.; Kemper, J.B.; Stegen, Z.; Boebinger, G.S.; Balakirev, F.F.; Kohama, Y.; Migliori, A.; Chen, H.; Liu, R.H. and Chen X.H., Doping dependent nonlinear Hall effect in SmFeAsO1-xFx, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 21 (41), 412201 (2009)
34 Samulon, E.C.; Kohama, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Shapiro, M.C.; Al-Hassanieh, K.A.; Batista, C.D.; Jaime, M. and Fisher, I.R., Asymmetric Quintuplet Condensation in the Frustrated S=1 Spin Dimer Compound Ba3Mn2O8, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 047202 (2009) [read online]
35 Sengupta, P.; Batista, C.D.; McDonald, R.D.; Cox, S. and Singleton, J., Nonmonotonic field dependence of the Neel temperature in the quasi-two-dimensional magnet [Cu(HF2)(pyz)(2)]BF4, Phys. Rev. B, 79, 060409 (2009)
36 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D. and Cox, S., Recent high-magnetic-field experiments on the "High T-c" cuprates; Fermi-surface instabilities as a driver for superconductivity, Physica B, 404, 350-353 (2009)
37 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D. and Cox, S., Recent high-magnetic-field experiments on the “High Tc” cuprates; Fermi-surface instabilities as a driver for superconductivity, Physica B, 404 (3-4), 350-353 (2009)
38 Coldea, A. I.; Fletcher, J.D.; Carrington, A.; Analytis, J.G.; Bangura, A.F.; Chu, J.-H.; Erickson, A.S.; Fisher, I.R.; Hussey, N.E. and McDonald, R.D., Fermi Surface of Superconducting LaFePO Determined from Quantum Oscillations, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 216402 (2008) [read online]
39 Cox, S.; McDonald, R.D.; Armanious, M.; Sengupta, P. and Paduan-Filho, A., Unusual magento-optical phenomenon reveals low energy spin dispersion in the Spin-1 anisotropic heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain system NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 (8), 087602 (2008)
40 Cox, S.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Migliori, A. and Littlewood, P.B., Sliding charge-density wave in manganites, Nature Materials, 7 (January), 25-30 (2008)
41 Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; Maitland, C.; Blundell, S.J.; Lancaster, T.; Baker, P.J.; McDonald, R.D.; Cox, S.; Sengupta, P.; Manson, J.L.; Funk, K.A. and Schlueter, J.A., Isotope effect in quasi-two-dimensional metal-organic antiferromagnets, Phys. Rev. B, 78 (5), 052408-1-4 (2008)
42 Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; Sengupta, P.; McDonald, R.D.; Lancaster, T.; Blundell, S.J.; Pratt, F.L.; Cox, S.; Harrison, N.; Manson, J.L.; Southlerland, H.I. and Schlueter, J.A., Experimentally determining the exchange parameters of quasi-two-dimensional Heisenberg magnets, New Journal of Physics, 10 (8), 083025 (2008)
43 Manson, J.L.; Conner, M.M.; Schlueter, J.A.; McConnell, A.C.; Southerland, H.I.; Malfant, I.; Lancaster, T.; Blundell, S.J.; Brooks, M.L.; Pratt, F.L.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Lee, C. and Whangbo, M.-H., Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of the Magnetic Properties of CuF2(H2O)2 (pyz) (pyz = pyrazine): A Two-Dimensional Quantum Magnet Arising from Supersuperexchange Interactions through Hydrogen Bonded Paths, Chem. Mater., 20 (24), 7408-7416 (2008)
44 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N. and Singleton, J., Thermoelectric studies of the non-thermal equilibrium dynamics in chiral metals, Physica B, 403, 1652-4 (2008)
45 Mielke, C.H. and McDonald, R.D., Single turn multi-megagauss system at the NHMFL-Los Alamos to study plutonium, Proc. 2006 Int. Conf. on Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics, 1, 227-31 (2008)
46 Bangura, A.F.; Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; Tozer, S.W.; Coldea, A.I.; Ardavan, A.; McDonald, R.D.; Blundell, S.J. and Schlueter, J.A., Angle-dependent magnetoresistance oscillations due to magnetic breakdown orbits, Phys. Rev. B, 76 (5), 052510 (2007)
47 Cox, S.; Rosten, E.; McDonald, R.D. and Singleton, J., Comment on "Pinning frequencies of the collective modes in alpha-uranium", Phys. Rev. Lett., 98 (24), 249701 (2007)
48 Harrison, N.; McDonald, R.D. and Singleton, J., Cuprate fermi orbits and fermi arcs: The effect of short-range antiferromagnetic order, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (20), 206406 (2007)
49 Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Ardavan, A.; Coldea, A.I.; Blundell, S.J.; McDonald, R.D.; Tozer, S. and Schlueter, J.A., Persistence to high temperatures of interlayer coherence in an organic superconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (2), 027004 (2007)
50 McDonald, R.D.; Goddard, P.A.; Lashley, J.; Harrison, N.; Mielke, C.H.; Singleton, J.; Harima, H. and Suzuki, M-T., High magnetic field studies of the shape memory alloy AuZn, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 67, 2100-2105 (2006)
51 McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Harrison, N. and Mielke, C.H., A photonic band-gap resonator to facilitate GHz-frequency conductivity experiments in pulsed magnetic fields, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 77, 84702-1-13 (2006)
52 Sebastian, S.E.; Tanedo, P.; Goddard, P.A.; Lee, S-C.; Wilson, A.; Kim, S.; McDonald, R.D.; Hill, S.; Harrison, N.; Batista, C.D. and Fisher, I.R., Role of anisotropy in the spin-dimer compound BaCuSi2O6, Phys. Rev. B, 74, R180401 (2006) [read online]
53 Shibauchi, T.; Krusin-Elbaum, L.; Kasahara, Y.; Shimono, Y.; Matsuda, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H. ;Yonezawa, S.; Hiroi, Z.; Arai, M.; Kita, T.; Blatter, G. and Sigrist, M., Unusual Upper Critical Field in the Pyrochlore KOs2O6, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 51, 295 (2006)
54 Shibauchi, T.; Krusin-Elbaum, L.; Kasahara, Y.; Shimono, Y.; Matsuda, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H.; Yonezawa, S.; Hiroi, Z.; Arai, M.; Kita, T.; Blatter, G. and Sigrist, M., Uncommonly high upper critical field of the pyrochlore superconductor KOs2O6 beloow the enhanced paramgnetic limit, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 74, 220506 (2006)
55 Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Ardavan, A.; Bangura, A.; McDonald, R.D.; and Schlueter, J., High-field studies of the slow thermal death of interlayer coherence in quasi-two-dimensional metals, J. Phys.: Conf. Series, 51, 319-322 (2006)
56 Singleton, J.; Harrison, N.; McDonald, R.; Goddard, P.A.; Bangura, A.; Coldea, A.; Montgomery, L.K. and Chi, X., Recent high-magnetic-field studies of unusual groundstates in quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals and superconductors, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 67, 535-541 (2006)
57 Bangura, A.F.; Goddard, P.A.; Tozer, S.; Coldea, A.I.; McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Ardavan, A., and Schleuter, J., Angle-dependent magnetotransport studies on kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 under pressure, Synthetic Met., 153, 449-452 (2005)
58 Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Lashley, J.C.; Harima, H. and Susuki, M.T., Catastrophic Fermi surface reconstruction in the shape-alloy AuZn, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 116401 (2005)
59 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Singleton, J.; Bangura, A.; Goddard, P.A.; Ramirez, A. and Chi, X., Landau quantization effects in the charge-density-wave system Per2M(mnt)2 (where M=Au and Pt), Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 106404 (2005)
60 McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Drymiotis, F.; Harrison, N.; Harima, H.; Suzuki, M.T.; Saxena, A.; Darling, T.W.; Migliori, A.; Smith, J.L. and Lashley, J.C., Fermi surface as a drive for the shape-memory effect in AuZn, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 17, 69 (2005)
61 Goddard, P.A.; Blundell, S.J.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Ardavan, A.; Narduzzo, A. and Schlueter, J.A., Angle-dependent magnetoresistance of the layered organic superconductor kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2: Simulation and experiment, Phys. Rev. B, 69, 174509 (2004)
62 Harrison, N.; Singleton, J.; Bangura, A.; Ardavan, A.; Goddard, P.A.; McDonald, R.D. and Montgomery, L.K., Unconventional quantum fluid at high magnetic fields in the marginal charge-density-wave system alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2MHg(SCN)4(M=K and Rb), Phys. Rev. B, 69 (16), 165103-1-13 (2004)
63 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Balicas, L.; Kim, K.H.; Singleton, J. and Chi, X., Charge-Density Waves Survive the Pauli Paramagnetic Limit, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 076405 (2004) [read online]
64 McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Harrison, N. and Lashley, J.C., de Haas-van Alphen spectra of the shape memory alloy AuZn, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 272-276 (Supplement 1 (E)), 1681-1683 (2004)
65 McDonald, R.D.; Klehe, A.K.; Singleton, J. and Hayes, W., Fermi-resonance and pressure-induced mode stiffening in the organic superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2, Synthetic Met., 133 (March 13), 251-253 (2003)
66 McDonald, R.D.; Klehe, A.K.; Singleton, J. and Hayes, W., The pressure dependence of many-body interactions in the organic superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2 (BEDT-TTF bis(ethylene-dithio)tetrathiafulvalene): a comparison of high-, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 15 (30), 5315-5332 (2003)
67 Klehe, A-K.; McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Kleppe, A.; Olijnyk, H.; Jephcoat, A.P.; Goncharov, A.F.; Struzhkin, V.V.; Mao, H.K.; Hemley, R.J. and Sasaki, T., Raman scattering and infrared reflectivity of kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2, Synthetic Met., 121, 857-858 (2001)
68 McDonald, R.; Brom, H.; Laukhina, E. and Singleton, J., Optical studies of the GHz transmission through (BEDT-TTF)2I3 thin film; possible indication of phase coherence above Tc, Synthetic Met., 121, 865-866 (2001)
69 McDonald, R.D.; Klehe, A-K.; Jephcoat, A.P.; Olijnyk, H.; Sasaki, T.; Hayes, W. and Singleton, J., A Raman study of the organic superconductor (BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2 at high pressure, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 13, L291-L298 (2001)
70 Klehe, A.K.; McDonald, R.D.; Goncharov, A.F.; Struzhkin, V.V.; Mao, H.K.; Hemley, R.J.; Sasaki, T.; Hayes, W. and Singleton, J., Infrared studies of the organic superconductor k-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2 under pressure, J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 12 (13), L247-L256 (2000)
##Presentations, Posters & Abstracts
1 Altarawneh, M.M.; Mielke, C.H.; McDonald, R.D.; Mitchell, J.N.; Ronning, F.; Kennison, J.A. and Bauer, E.D., Superconductivity in PuCoGa5, SCES 2010, Santa Fe, NM, June 28-July 2 (2010)
2 Moll, P.J.W.; Balakirev, F.; McDonald, R.; Karpinski, J.; Bukowski, Z. and Batlogg, B., Fermi Surface of the Pnictide Superconductor LaRu2P2 Studied by Quantum Oscillations, Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields, Tallahassee, FL, December 4-12 (2010)
3 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.; Cox, S.; Mielke, C.; de la Cruz, C.; Li, S. and Dai, P., Magnetic quantum oscillations in underdoped cuprate superconductors, Int. Conf. on Conducting Materials, Sousse, Tunisia, November (2010); Published in J. Phys. -Condens. Mat. (0)
4 McDonald, R.D.; Maich, A.; Singleton, J.; Thoma, D.; Lashley, J.; Smith, J.L.; Saxena, A.; Goddard, P.A.; Suzuki, M-T. and Harima, H., The shape-memory effect in high magnetic fields: electronically-driven phase transitions and bulk nanostructure revealed by the de Haas-van Alphen effect, ICOMAT 08, Santa Fe, NM, June 29-July 4 (2008)
5 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D. and Cox, S., Recent quantum oscillation experiments on the cuprates using the 75 and 85 T magnets at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: Fermi-surface nesting and a possible mechanism for superconductivity, ECRYS 2008: International Workshop on Electronic Crystals, Cargese, France, August 24-30 (2008); Published in Physica B (0)
6 Kim, S.; Hill, S.; Sengupta, S.; Zapf, V.S.; McDonald, R.; Jaime, M.; Batista, C.D. and Tozer, S., High Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO, March 5-9 (2007)
7 Kim, S.S.; Hill, S.; Sengupta, P.; Zapf, V.S.; McDonald, R.; Jaime, M.; Batista, C.D.; Tozer, S. and Paduan-Filho, A., High frequency electron paramagnetic resonance studies of NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO, March 5-9 (2007); Published in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 52 (1) (2007)
8 Kim, S.S.; Hill, S.; Zapf, V.S.; McDonald, R.; Jaime, M.; Batista, C.D.; Tozer, S. and Paduan-Filho, A., Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, Florida Inorganic Mini-Symposium (FIMS), Gainesville, FL, September 22 (2007)
9 Kim, S.; Hill, S.; Zapf, V.C.; McDonald, R.; Jaime, M.; Batista, C.D.; Tozer, S. and Paduan-Filho, A., Electron Paramagnetic Resonance studies of NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, Southeastern Magnetic Resonance Conf., Gainesville, FL, November 3-5 (2006)
10 Kim, S.S.; Lee, S-C.; Wilson, A.; Sebastian, S.E.; Tanedo, P.; Fisher, I.R.; Goddard, P.A.; Cox, S.; McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Batista, C.D. and Hill, S., EPR study on the spin dimer compound BaCuSi2O6, Florida Inorganic Mini-Symposium (FIMS), Gainesville, FL, October 14 (2006)
11 Shibauchi, T.; Krusin-Elbaum, L.; Kasahara, Y.; Shimono, Y.; Matsuda, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H.; Yonezawa, S.; Hiroi, Z.; Arai, M.; Kita, T.; Blatter, G. and Sigrist, M., Unusual Upper Critical Field in the Pyrochlore KOs2O6, Yamada Conf. LX on Research in High Magnetic Fields (RHMF2006), Sendai, Japan, August (2006)
12 Shibauchi, T.; Krusin-Elbaum, L.; Kasahara, Y.; Shimono, Y.; Matsuda, Y.; McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H.; Yonezawa, S.; Hiroi, Z.; Arai, M.; Kita, T.; Blatter, G. and Sigrist, M., Unusually Large T-Linear Upper Critical Field in KOs2O6 with Enhanced Paramagnetic Limit (invited), The 11th International Workshop on Vortex Matter, Wroclaw, Poland, July (2006)
13 Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Ardavan, A.; Bangura, A.; McDonald, R.D. and Schlueter, J., High-field studies of the slow thermal death of interlayer coherence in quasi-two-dimensional metals, Yamada Conf. LX on Research in High Magnetic Field, Sendai Civic Auditorium, Sendai, Japan, August 16-19 (2006)
14 Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Ardavan, A.; Tozer, S.; McDonald, R.D. and Schlueter, J., The coherence conundrum in BEDT-TTF superconductors; how does interlayer transport die as temperature rises?, American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD, March 16 (2006)
15 Bangura, A.F.; Goddard, P.A.; Tozer, S.; Coldea, A.I.; Singleton, J.; Ardavan, A.; McDonald, R.D. and Schleuter, J., Angle-dependent magnetotransport studies on k-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 under hydrostatic pressures, ISCOM2005, Key West, FL, September (2005); Published in J. Low Temp. Phys. (0)
16 McDonald, R.D., Photonic band gap resonators to facilitate GHz-frequency coplex-conductivity measurements in pulsed magnetic fields, 2005 American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 21-25 (2005)
17 McDonald, R.D., Novel techniques to elucidate the properties of correlated electron systems at ultra-high magnetic fields, 2005 Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions Conference, Miami, FL, April 17-21 (2005)
18 McDonald, R.D., High magnetic field studies of the fully gapped charge-density wave system (Per)2M(mnt)2 (where M=Au and Pt), 2005 Int. Symposium on Molecular Conductors-Novel Functions of Molecular Conductors Under Extreme Conditions, Hayama, Japan, July 17-21 (2005)
19 McDonald, R.D., The shape-memory effect explained using high magnetic fields: electronically-driven phase transitions and bulk nanostructure revealed by the de Haas-van Alphen effect, Lujan seminar, Los Alamos Center for Neutron Scattering, NM, June 29 (2005)
20 McDonald, R.D., High magnetic field studies of the fully gapped charge-density wave system (Per)¬2M(mnt)2 (where M = Au and Pt)., Physical Phenomenon at High Magnetic Fields Conference (V), Tallahassee, FL, August 5 (2005)
21 McDonald, R.D., The shape-memory effect explained using high magnetic fields: electronically-driven phase transitions and bulk nanostructure revealed by the de Haas-van Alphen effect, NHMFL colloquium, Tallahassee, FL, July 7 (2005)
22 McDonald, R.D., High magnetic field studies of the fully gapped charge-density wave system (Per)¬2M(mnt)2 (where M = Au and Pt)., 2005 Int. Symposium on Crystalline Organic Metals, Key West, FL, September 13 (2005)
23 McDonald, R.D., Big magnets, big bangs and big opportunities, Undergraduate diversity outreach lecture at the University of New Mexico, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, October 5 (2005)
24 Singleton, J.; Betts, J.; Goddard, P.; Lashley, J.; McDonald, R.; Mielke, C. and Migliori, A., The condensed-matter physics of plutonium: a "heavy-fermion" element, EPS-CMD20, Prague, Czech Republic, July (2004); Published in Conference Proceeding booklet (0)
25 Singleton, J.; Harrison, N.; McDonald, R.; Goddard P.; Bangura, A.; Coldea, A.; Chi, X. and Montgomery, L.K., Recent high-magnetic-field studies of superconducting and superconductor-like phases in quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals, Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, Sitges, Spain, July (2004); Published in J. Supercond. (0)
26 Edwards, R.; Singleton, J.; Mielke, C.; McDonald, R.; Narduzzo, A.; Ardavan, A. and Schlueter, J., Comparison of the Fermi-surface topologies of kappa-(BEDT0TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 and its deuterated analogue, American Physical Society March meeting, Austin, TX, March (2003)
27 McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H.; Harrison, N. and Singleton, J., Photonic band gap resonators to facilitate microwave-frequency complex-conductivity measurements in pulsed magnetic fields, Los Alamos National Laboratory Championing Scientific Careers Conf., University of New Mexico, Albuquerqie, NM, August 7 (2003)
28 McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Harrison, N. and Lashley, J.C., de Haas-van Alphen spectra of the shape memory alloy AuZn, ICM 2003, Rome, Italy, July 27-August 1 (2003); Published in J. Magn. Magn. Mater. (0)
29 McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Harrison, N.; Mielke, C.; Miglori, A.; Goncharov, A.; Struzhkin, V.V.; Mao, H.; Hemley, R.J.; Olijynk, H.; Jephcoat, A.; Klehe, A-K. and Hayes, W., Many-body effects in the organic superconductor /kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2: A comparison of high pressure reflectivity and Raman scattering experiments., American Physical Society March Meeting (invited), Austin, TX, March 5 (2003)
30 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Mielke, C.H.; Coldea, A.; Bangura, A.; Goddard, P.A.; Ardavan, A.; Schlueter, J.A.; Akutsu-Sato, A.; Akutsu, A.; Turner, S.S. and Day, P., The role of spatial inhomogeneities in the superconducting groundstates of BEDT-TTF charge-transfer salts, ISCOM2003, France, September (2003)
31 McDonald, R.D.; Klehe, A-K.; Singleton, J. and Hayes, W., Fermi resonance and pressure-induced mode stiffening in the organic superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2, Yamada Conference LVI, the Fourth International Symposium on Crystalline Organic Metals, Superconductors and Ferromagnets (ISCOM2001), September (2001); Published in Synthetic Metals, in press (2001)
32 Klehe, A.-K.; McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Goncharev, A.F.; Struzhkin, V.V.; Mao, H.-K.; Hemley, R.J.; Kleppe, A.; Olijynk, H.; Jephcoat, A.; Sasaki, T., Infrared and Raman reflectivity of k-(ET)2Cu(SCN)2 under pressure, International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Bad Gastein, Austria, July 15-21 (2000)
33 McDonald, R.; Brom, H.; Laukhina, E. and Singleton, J., GHz transmission through bt-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 thin film; possible indication of phase coherence above Tc, International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Bad Gastein, Austria, July 15-21 (2000)
##Books, Chapters, Reviews and Other One-Time Publications
1 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D. and Harrison, N., "Book chapter: Orbitally quantized density-wave states perturbed from equilibrium", Organic Superconductors and Metals, ed. Andrei Lebed, Springer, Berlin, 2008.
2 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D. and Harrison, N., "High-field Magnetoresistive Effects in Reduced-Dimensionality Organic Metals and Superconductors", The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors, 247-276, 2008.
##Internet Disseminations
1 Cox, S.; McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Miller, S.; Goddard, P.A.; El Shawish, S.; Bonca, J.; Schlueter, J.A. and Manson, J.L., A new collective phenomenon arising from spin anisotropic perturbations to a Heisenberg square lattice manifested in paramagnetic resonance experiments, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0907.3514, (2009)
2 Singleton, J.; de la Cruz, C.; McDonald, R.D.; Li, S.; Altarawneh, M.; Goddard, P.; Franke, I.; Rickel, D.; Mielke, C.H.; Yao, X. and Dai, P., Magnetic quantum oscillations in YBa2Cu3O{6.61} and YBa2Cu3O{6.69} in fields of up to 85 T; patching the hole in the roof of the superconducting dome, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0911.2745, (2009)
3 Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; Maitland, C.; Blundell, S.J.; Lancaster, T.; Baker, P.J.; McDonald, R.D.; Cox, S.; Sengupta, P.; Manson, J.L.; Funk, K.A. and Schlueter, J.A., Isotope effect in quasi-two-dimensional metal-organic antiferromagnets, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0807.1506, (2008)
4 Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; Sengupta, P.; McDonald, R.D.; Lancaster, T.; Blundell, S.J.; Pratt, F.L.; Cox, S.; Harrison, N.; Manson, J.L.; Southerland, H.I. and Schlueter, J.A., Exchange parameters of copper-based quasi-two-dimensional Heisenberg magnets measured using high magnetic fields and muon-spin rotation, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0803.4169, (2008)
5 Cox, S.; Rosten, E.; McDonald, R.D. and Singleton, J., Dirty Peierls Transitions in alpha Uranium, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0611331, (November 2006)
6 Harrison, N.; McDonald, R.D. and Singleton, J., Orbitally quantized density-wave states perturbed from equilibrium, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0606460, (2006)
7 McDonald, R.D.; Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Harrison, N. and Mielke, C.H., A photonic bandgap resonator to facilitate GHz frequency conductivity experiments in pulsed magnetic fields, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0606476, (2006)
8 Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Ardavan, A.; Coldea, A.L.; Blundell, S.J.; McDonald, R.D.; Tozer, S. and Schlueter, J., Persistence to high temperatures of interlayer coherence in an organic superconductor, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0610318, (October 2006)
9 Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D. and Harrison, N., High-field magnetoresistive effects in reduced-dimensionality organic metals and superconductors, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0606492, (June 2006)
10 Goddard, P.A.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Lashley, J.C.; Harima, H. and Suzuki, M.-T., Catastrophic Fermi surface reconstruction in the shape-memory alloy AuZn, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0501108, (2005)
11 McDonald, R.D.; Lashley, J.C.; Singleton, J.; Goddard, P.A.; Drymiotis, F.; Harrison, N.; Harima, H.; Suzuki, M.-T.; Migliori, A. and Smith, J.L., Fermi Surface as a Driver for the Shape-Memory Effect in AuZn, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0501024, (2005)
12 Singleton, J.; Harrison, N.; McDonald, R.; Goddard, P.A.; Bangura, A.; Coldea, A.; Montgomery, L.K. and Chi, X., Recent high-magnetic-field studies of unusual groundstates in quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals and superconductors, http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0503661, (2005)
13 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Goddard, P.; Singleton, J. and Chi, X., Absence of field-induced charge-density wave states in (Per)2Pt(mnt)2, http://arXiv.org/abs/ cond-mat/0408408, (2004)
14 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Singleton, J.; Bangura, A.; Goddard, P.A.; Ramirez, A.P. and Chi, X., Landau quantization effects in the charge-density-wave system (Per)2M$(mnt)$2$ (where $M=$Au and Pt), http://arXiv.org/abs/ cond-mat/0409517, (2004)
15 Goddard, P.A.; Blundell, S.J.; Singleton, J.; McDonald, R.D.; Ardavan, A.; Narduzzo, A.; Schlueter, J.A.; Kini, A.M. and Sasaki, T., Angle Dependent Magnetoresistance of the Layered Organic Superconductor \kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2: Simulation and Experiment, http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312197, (December 8, 2003)
16 Harrison, N.; Singleton, J.; Bangura, A.; Ardavan, A.; Goddard, P.A.; McDonald, R.D. and Montgomery, L.K., A new quantum fluid at high magnetic fields in the marginal charge-density-wave system $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$2M$Hg(SCN)$4$ (where $M=$~K and Rb), http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311362, (November 2003)
17 McDonald, R.D.; Harrison, N.; Balicas, L.; Kim, K.H.; Singleton, J. and Chi, X., Charge-density Waves Survive the Pauli Paramagnetic Limit, http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312142, (December 5, 2003)
18 McDonald, R.D.; Klehe, A.K.; Singleton, J. and Hayes, W., The pressure dependence of many-body interactions in the organic superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)2: A comparison of high pressure infrared reflectivity and Raman scatterin, http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208213, (2002)
##Theses - Ph.D.
1 McDonald, R., "Optical Measurements of Correlated Electron Systems", Oxford University, Physics, advisor: John Singleton (2001)




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