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ArrowScience Highlights 2009

One of the important goals of the Mag Lab is to facilitate the exchange of scientific knowledge and to communicate the science and engineering achievements of the laboratory's faculty and users. These science highlights (PDF files) showcase the cutting-edge research underway at the Mag Lab.

For highlights from previous years, please refer to our Science Highlights Archive.


2009 Science & Engineering Highlights

Date

Research Area

Title

Site / Program

Contact

Nov. 12 Condensed Matter Physics Magnetoelastic Coupling through the Field-driven Transition to the Fully Polarized State in a Metal Organic Framework Material FSU / DC Field Facility Jan Musfeldt
Oct. 26 Chemistry, Energy Storage   Mg/Al Ordering in Layered Double Hydroxides Revealed by Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy (2 pages) FSU / NMR Clare Grey or Zhehong Gan
Oct. 20 Condensed Matter NMR Two Inequivalent Sublattices and Orbital Ordering in MnV2O4 by 51V NMR FSU / DC Field Facility Seung-Ho Baek or Arneil Reyes
Oct. 20 Magnets & Materials Engineering Intergrain Current Flow in a Randomly Oriented Polycrystalline SmFeAsO0.85 Oxypnictide (2 slides) FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center Fumitake Kametani
Oct. 15 Chemistry / Condensed Matter Physics Multiferroic Metal Organic Frameworks FSU / EMR Prashant Jain or Naresh Dalal
Sept. 30 Condensed Matter Physics A New Mechanism for Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in d-wave Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields FSU / Condensed Matter Physics Robert Throckmorton or Oskar Vafek
Sept. 24 Condensed Matter Physics Coherent Spin Rotation in the Presence of a Phonon-bottleneck Effect FSU / Condensed Matter Science Lei Chen or Irinel Chiorescu
Sept. 18 Geochemistry Research on Climate Change FSU / Geochemistry Vincent Salters
Sept. 14 Condensed Matter Physics Revealing Intrinsic Quantum Properties of Molecular Nanomagnets FSU / EMR Stephen Hill
Sept. 8 Condensed Matter Physics, Theory Effects of Elastic Interactions in a Model Spin-Crossover Material FSU / Condensed Matter Science Per Rikvold
Aug. 28 Educational Outreach and Diversity Educational Outreach at the Magnet Lab* FSU / CIRL Pat Dixon
Aug. 28 Magnets & Materials Engineering Do Grain Boundaries in Pnictide Superconductors Transmit Supercurrent?* FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center David Larbalestier
Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Fermi Surface of α-Uranium at Ambient Pressure* FSU / DC Field Stan Tozer or Eric Palm
Aug. 28 Biochemistry, Biophysics Light Harvesting in Cyanobacteria* FSU / EMR R.D. Britt or Andrzej Ozarowski
Aug. 28 Chemistry Chemistry of Petroleum Crude Oil Deposits:  Sodium Naphthenates* FSU / ICR Alan Marshall
Aug. 28 Biochemistry Can a Truncated Domain Truly Represent a Whole Enzyme?* FSU / ICR Alan Marshall
Aug. 28 Magnets & Materials Engineering High Strength Composite Conductors* FSU / MS&T Mark Bird or Ke Han
Aug. 28 Magnets & Materials Engineering Breaking the 30 T Superconducting Magnet Barrier* FSU / MS&T, ASC Denis Markiewicz or Ulf Trociewitz
Aug. 28 Biochemistry Enhancing Resolution of HETCOR Spectra at 900 MHz* FSU / NMR Riqiang Fu
Aug. 28 Biochemistry, Bioengineering Dielectric Resonators for MR Microscopy at 21.1 T* FSU / NMR Sam Grant
Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Nearly Isotropic Superconductivity in (Ba,K)Fe2As2* LANL/Pulsed Field Facility Chuck Mielke
Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in SrFe2As2* LANL/Pulsed Field Facility Chuck Mielke
Aug. 28 Biochemistry Structure of Nanomole Quantities of Marine Chemicals* UF / AMRIS Tadeusz Molinski or Art Edison
Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Quantum Dynamics in Solid Helium* UF / High B/T Neil Sullivan
Aug. 26 Magnets & Materials Engineering Evidence for Highly Localized Damage in Internal Tin and Powder-in-tube Nb3Sn Strands Rolled Before Reaction Obtained from Coupled Magneto-optical Imaging and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center Anatolii Polyanskii or Peter Lee
Aug. 17 Biochemistry The M2 Proton Channel from Influenza A Virus and a Structural Model for Channel Activation FSU / NMR Myunggi Yi
Aug. 17 Biochemistry Unsymmetrical FeIIICoII and GaIIICoII Complexes as Chemical Hydrolases.  Biomimetic Models for Purple Acid Phosphatases (PAPs) FSU / EMR Jurek Krzystek
Aug. 17 Magnets & Materials Engineering Characterization of High Jc Nb3Sn Strands for the Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet FSU / Magnet Science & Technology Jun Lu
Aug. 12 Magnets & Materials Engineering Stability of Second Generation HTS Pancake Coils at 4.2K for High Heat Flux Applications FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center Honghai Song
Aug. 12 Magnets & Materials Engineering Stability and Quench Behavior of YBa2Cu3O7-x Coated Conductor at 4.2 K Self-Field FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center Honghai Song
July 27 Condensed Matter Physics Quantum Critical Spin Dynamics of an S=1/2 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain Studied by 13C-NMR Spectroscopy FSU / DC Field Hannes Kühne or Arneil Reyes
July 7 Chemistry University Detailed Characterization of Naphthenic Acids in Naphthenate Deposits FSU / ICR Alan Marshall
July 7 Chemistry Aquatic Plant-derived Changes in Oil Sands Naphthenic Acid Signatures FSU / ICR Alan Marshall
June 22 Condensed Matter Physics Magnetization-driven Metal-insulator Transition in Strongly Disordered Ge:Mn Magnetic Semiconductors FSU / DC Field Sasha Gerber or Alexey Suslov
June 18 Magnets & Materials, Engineering   Dynamic Magneto-optical Imaging of Transport Current Redistribution and Normal Zone Propagation in YBa2Cu3O7-δ Coated Conductor FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center Honghai Song
June 15 Condensed Matter Physics Large Magnetoresistance of a Dilute 2DHG in p-Si/SiGe/Si in a Parallel Magnetic Field FSU / DC Field I.L. Drichko or Alexey Suslov
April 21 Condensed Matter Physics Observation of a Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν=1/4 in a Wide GaAs Quantum Well FSU / DC Field Dwight Luhman
April 16 Chemistry Heterotetranuclear Oxalato-Bridged ReIV3MII (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) Complexes: A New Example of a Single-Molecule Magnet (M = Ni) FSU / EMR F. Jose Martínez-Lillo or Jurek Krzystek
March 10 Condensed Matter Physics Determination of Anisotropic Hc2 up to 60 T in Ba0.55K0.45Fe2As2 Single Crystals LANL / Pulsed Field Paul Canfield
March 10 Condensed Matter Physics Nearly Isotropic superconductivity in (Ba,K)Fe2As2 LANL / Pulsed Field John Singleton
March 2 Condensed Matter Physics Thermodynamics of the Spin Luttinger Liquid in a Model Ladder Material LANL / Pulsed Field Vivien Zapf
March 2 Condensed Matter Physics Circular Polarization of Photoluminescence Spectra of Individual CdSe Nanocrystals in an Applied Magnetic Field LANL / Pulsed Field Scott Crooker
March 2 Condensed Matter Physics Tunable Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Mn-doped ZnSe/CdSe Core/Shell Nanocrystal Quantum Dots LANL / Pulsed Field Scott Crooker
March 2 Condensed Matter Physics "Listening" to the Spin Noise of Conduction Electrons in Semiconductors LANL / Pulsed Field Scott Crooker
Feb. 26 Condensed Matter Physics Pseudo-isotropic Upper Critical Field in Cobalt-doped SrFe2As2 Epitaxial Films LANL / Pulsed Field Scott Baily
Feb. 26 Condensed Matter Physics Critical Properties at the Field-Induced BEC in NiCl2-SC(NH2)2 LANL / Pulsed Field Marcelo Jaime
Feb. 10 Condensed Matter Physics Multiphoton Coherent Manipulation in Large-Spin Qubits FSU / EMR Irinel Chiorescu
Feb. 3 Condensed Matter Physics Large Nuclear Polarization of 31P in Silicon FSU / EMR Hans van Tol

*The National Science Foundation periodically solicits Highlights from the Magnet Lab, and this research activity was one of 14 highlights submitted on August 14, 2009. NSF highlights use a template and each includes two slides: The first slide presents the research; the second slide discusses broader impacts.


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