Books

Since their discovery about 100 years ago, tools made of hard metals have been the enablers of development in various areas: from drilling subway lines for more sustainable cities to the machining of complex next-generation airplane engine parts for reduced CO2 emissions. An increase in properties of hard metals thus leads to efficient operations with shorter lead-time, less environmental footprint, and reduced cost. [...]

This thesis reports thorough studies on multiferroic and frustrated systems, whereby specific focus was put on the investigation of multiferroic domain dynamics. For the respective experiments mainly neutron scattering techniques ranging from conventional diffraction, inelastic scattering, neutron polarization analysis to Larmor diffraction were utilized. [...]

Neutrons are characterized by a low absorption in many engineering materials. At the same time the scattering cross section of light elements, such as hydrogen and deuterium, may be large. [...]

Rare-earth borides have attracted continuous interest for more than half a century both from the point of view of fundamental condensed matter physics and for practical applications in various fields of engineering. They demonstrate a wealth of unusual electronic and magnetic properties that have been closely investigated in recent decades using advanced spectroscopies and state-of-the-art physical characterization methods.Authored by leading experts in the field, this book features a comprehensive collection of reviews offering a cutting-edge summary of the research on rare-earth borides from various viewpoints. [...]

The recent development of theoretical and experimental study of emergent phenomena, such as anomalous Hall effects, topological electronic band structures as well as quantum spin liquid states in condensed matter physics have evoked tremendous research interest in the search and study of novel quantum materials. High quality single crystal samples of the quantum materials, which serve as a key prerequisite to study the novel properties are of great importance in the study of quantum materials. [...]

Neutrons are an essential tool for science and industry for probing the structure and dynamics of matter from the mesoscale to the picoscale and from seconds to femtoseconds. In Europe research, industry and society benefit from a globally unique environment of various neutron sources with the flagship facilities ILL in Grenoble, France, and ESS in Lund, Sweden. [...]