• X-ray and neutron scattering studies of phase transitions and of disordered and defective solids : structure and modelling of liquids and amorphous solids including molten salts, amorphous Si, biopolymers, oxide and metallic glasses and colloids

• Nanocrystalline solids

• Modulated solids including structural and order-disorder transformations in  metals and surface induced effects

• Structure of quasicrystals

• Structure and defects in high Tc superconductors

• Thin films including studies of epitaxy and interfacial structures in metallic and semiconducting multilayers and superlattices

• Structure and phase transitions in C₆₀ crystals

       Laboratory: X-ray Structural Studies of Materials
 
Shown here is a rotating anode X-ray source with a four-circle diffractometer and computer controls and electronics..
    

                                    Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Forrest
                           Studying ternary ordering in In_xAl_1-xAs

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