FLEET Partner Investigator Kirrily Rule (ANSTO) introduced an audience of over 100 to the use of neutron scattering in material analysis last week, in a live-streamed seminar co-hosted with the Australian Institute of Physics.
Neutron scattering is a powerful tool for investigating the structure and dynamics of condensed matter systems. In particular the magnetic spin of the neutron can interact directly with magnetic ions to reveal information about the magnetic properties of a material.
Kirrily gave an overview of the neutron scattering facility at ANSTO and the techniques used by FLEET researchers, highlighting recent literature on systems similar to those investigated by FLEET, revealing some of the challenges of neutron scattering.
Video of the talk is available online.
This was the first in a new series of live-streamed talks for the AIP by physics-themed Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence, instigated and coordinated by FLEET.
Dr Kirrily Rule is an internationally-recognised leader in understanding low-dimensional and frustrated magnetic materials. Within FLEET, she provides expertise in conducting experiments at ANSTO’s world-leading nuclear and synchrotron beam characterisation facilities for FLEET partner researchers. She works closely with CI Xiaolin Wang and AI David Cortie (UOW) in FLEET’s Enabling technology A, atomically thin materials.