Research Interests
Prof. Dr. Thomas Brückel
Development of scattering methods:
- polarised neutron scattering
- reflectometry and grazing incidence small angle scattering GISANS
- neutron spectroscopy with polarisation analysis
- magnetic and anomalous synchrotron x-ray scattering
- high energy (> 100 keV) synchrotron x-ray diffractionMagnetic nanostructures, e. g. transition metal or rare earth thin film systems and laterally patterned systems:
- magnetic ordering phenomena,
e.g. domain structures, magnetisation densities within nanoparticles
- proximity effects, e.g. exchange bias
- remagnetisation kinetics
- interaction between nanoparticlesGeneral solid state magnetism:
- magnetic structure and excitations
- phase transition
- frustration
- disorder- Highly correlated electron systems, e. g. perovskite or spinel derivated transition metal oxides or sulfides:
- complex ordering phenomena,
e.g. charge-, lattice-, spin- and orbital order
- magnetic and lattice excitations