U.S.-Austria Cooperative Research: Neutron and Mossbauer Investigations in Alloys and Single Crystals

该奖项支持Guy Schupp教授，William Yelon博士和两名 密苏里州大学的研究生合作， 玻璃材料和铁电相变的研究 沃尔特·斯坦纳教授和物理系的其他人 来自维也纳技术大学。 他们正在进行详细的 团簇玻璃自旋动力学的研究 冻结温度和相变的动力学 七锗酸锂 这些动力学过程已被研究 使用维也纳的高磁场低温设备。 最近，美国国家航空航天局的中子和伽马射线散射仪器 密苏里州大学研究反应堆（穆尔）已显着 升级 这使他们能够进行扩展的结构 研究和检查附近的动力学和磁性 相变 通过将互补技术结合起来， 穆尔的独特设施和维也纳的设施可提供新的和 磁有序和动力学的基本见解 玻璃和铁电材料的相变。

This award supports Professor Guy Schupp, Dr. William Yelon and two graduate students of the University of Missouri to collaborate in research on glassy materials and ferroelectric phase transitions with Professor Walter Steiner and others of the Physics Department of the Technical University of Vienna. They are engaged in detailed investigations of the spin dynamics of cluster glasses above their freezing temperatures and the dynamics of the phase transition of lithium heptagermanate. These dynamical processes have been studied using high magnetic field, low temperature facilities in Vienna. Recently, the neutron and gamma ray scattering instruments at the Missouri University Research Reactor (MURR) have been significantly upgraded. This enables them to carry out expanded structural studies and examinations of dynamical and magnetic properties near phase transitions. The combination of complementary techniques made possible by the unique facilities at MURR and those in Vienna may provide new and fundamental insights into magnetic ordering and the dynamics of phase transitions in glassy and ferroelectric materials.