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Brian Kirby (Fed)

Group Leader, Research Facility Operations, NCNR

Research Interests:

  • Advanced neutron scattering techniques
  • Magnetic multilayers and thin films
  • Magnetic property localization in nanostructured materials
  • Electric field control of magnetism
  • Magnetism at complex oxide interfaces

Awards

2012 NIST Bronze Medal, "For the elucidation of complex magnetic coupling in ferromagnetic, semiconducting multilayers using innovative polarized neutron reflectivity methods"

Selected Publications

Publications

Reduction-Induced Magnetic Behavior in LaFeO3-δ Thin Films

Author(s)
Nathan Arndt, Eitan Hershkovitz, Labdhi Shah, Kristoffer Kjaernes, Chao-Yao Yang, Purnima Balakrishnan, Mohammed Shariff, Shaun Tauro, Daniel Gopman, Brian Kirby, Alexander Grutter, Thomas Tybell, Honggyu Kim, Ryan Need
The effect of oxygen reduction on the magnetic properties of LaFeO3−δ (LFO) thin films was studied to better understand the viability of LFO as a candidate for

First-Order Phase Transition versus Spin-State Quantum-Critical Scenarios in Strain-Tuned Epitaxial Cobaltite Thin Films

Author(s)
John Dewey, Vipul Chaturvedi, Tatiana Webb, Prachi Sharma, William Postiglione, P. Quarterman, Purnima Balakrishnan, Brian Kirby, Lucca Figari, Caroline Korostynski, Andrew Jacobson, Turan Birol, Rafael Fernandes, Abhay Pasupathy, Chris Leighton
Pr-containing perovskite cobaltites exhibit unusual valence transitions, coupled to coincident structural, spin-state, and metal-insulator transitions

Vertical Inhomogeneous Magnetic Order in FeRh Film

Author(s)
Sehwan Song, Jiwoong Kim, Jisung Lee, Hyegyeong Kim, Noboru Miyata, Neeraj Kumar, Y. Soh, Jae H. Jang, Chanyong Hwang, Brian Kirby, Sungkyun Park
FeRh films, known as antiferromagnetic material at low temperature, exhibit unexpected ferromagnetic (FM) characteristics, unlike bulk. Detailed temperature
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Created October 9, 2019, Updated October 21, 2024