James Aldous
University of Warwick

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Recent News

  • November 2009
    I embarked on my third trip this year to the NSLS to undertake more XMCD experiments. This is likely to be my final trip to the NSLS, although we do have more scheduled beamtime in the next allocation period.
  • September 2009
    I have recently attended a DFT summer school hosted by Psi-K. The course was 6 days long and took place at Bristol University, England.
  • March 2009
    I have been invited by Dr Tom Hase of Warwick University to go with him to the NSLS in April to perform some XMCD experiments. I have, naturally, accepted the invitation!

Contact

  • j.d.aldous@warwick.ac.uk

Recent News and Developments

  • December 2009

    I am embarking on what will probably be my final MEIS experimental run. We have two weeks of time; 1 week for preparation and 1 week of beamtime.

  • November 2009

    Another 6 days of beamtime on X13A at the NSLS in the USA has allowed me to undertake some more XMCD experiments on MnSb thin films. The obtained results are of a high quality and should result in a paper to be published next year

  • October 2009

    I'd like to offer a warm welcome to the latest postgraduate students who will be working for Gavin. Firstly to Dan Higgins who is undertaking an STM-related MSc and secondly to Ian Maskery who has joined the department with Gavin and Dr Jon Duffy, of the magnetic x-ray scattering group, as joint supervisors.

  • September 2009

    A 6 day DFT course hosted by the Psi-K netowrk was held in late September at the University of Bristol, England. The course covered a wide range of topics, from basic DFT formalism, to TD-DFT and the inclusion of many-body perturbation theory. "Hands-on" sessions were run in the afternoon for us to try out four different codes: Exciting, ABINIT, SIESTA and SPRKKR. The hands-on sessions were supported by two lectures given by developers of the codes prior to the hands-on sessions, allowing us to understand the key differences and relative strengths and weakeness of the different codes

  • March 2009

    In collaboration with Dr Tom Hase of Warwick University, I will be travelling to the National Synchrotron Light Source in April to perform x-ray magnetic circular dirchoism experiments on some samples grown by myself at Warwick.

  • February 2009

    An abstract has been accepted for the Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference, hosted by the Insitute of Physics and to be held at Reading University between the 30th of March and 2nd of April. I shall be presenting a poster outlining our most recent work on the MnSb surfaces including results from: XPS; STM; SEM; and medium energy ion scattering.

  • November 2008

    A paper detailing the effects to MnSb(0001) and MnSb(1-101) surfaces as a result of typical surface preparation methods has been accepted for publication by Applied Surface Science. The paper details some of our recent work on the MnSb surfaces, outlining the affects to the surface morphology and chemistry as a result of typical surface preparation techniques (ion bombarding, annealing, acid etching). A simple and reliable method of surface preparation is detailed, which now enables quantitative surface science experiments to be conducted on clean and well ordered MnSb surfaces.

  • October 2008

    A warm welcome is in order for Chris Burrows who has joined the research group with Prof. Chris McConville and Dr Gavin Bell as joint supervisors. He will be working on a range of transition metal antimonide materials and will compliment my own research.

  • September 2008

    After much deliberation, I decided my old website needed a revamp; this is the outcome! I hope it is pleasing to the eye and insightful to the curious. If anyone has any questions about me or my research, or comments to make about this website, then feel free to contact me using the details listed to the left.


Last Updated:   16/03/12