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High-pressure and high-temperature studies of CL-20, HMX, and TATB
The aims of this proposal are to explore the high-pressure, high-temperature behaviour of 3important energetic materials - CL-20, HMX and TATB. These experiments are expected... -
Structural transformations in pure and Ba-doped PbSc$_{0.5}$Nb$_{0.5}$O$_3$ u...
Lead scandium niobate (PSN) belongs to the class of perovskite-type relaxor ferroelectrics, which are among the key functional materials. Due to their structural complexity, the... -
High-pressure and variable-temperature studies of RDX
Previous studies have suggested that a high-pressure form of the widely used secondary explosive RDX can be obtained above ~4 GPa and 488 K. This phase is reported to be... -
Structural study of high pressure phases of multiferroic BiFeO3
BiFeO3 is a rare example of multiferroic material with a simple perovskite-like structure, having extremely large magnetic ordering temperature (TN = 650 K) and Curie... -
A high-pressure study of monovalent bifluorides
This proposal seeks PEARL beam time to conduct the first high-pressure neutron diffraction study of the monovalent azides XDF2, where X = Na, ND4, Cs and Tl. In so doing, we... -
pressure induced para-antiferromagnetic switching in the multiferroic BiFeO3 ...
We have shown using previous experiments that moderate hydrostatic pressures can be used to switch phase from tetragonal to rhombohedral in the material BiFeO3 - PbTiO3 at room...
