Dear Colleagues,
At this time, CHESS is operating and supporting user research in remote, mail in and joint venture modes.
Last week set a new record with 99.9% delivered beam to users. Congratulations and thanks to everyone!
This month we are starting a series of articles featuring early career researchers who are CHESS users. Ryan Hurley, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Fellow of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, is a recipient of the NSF Early CAREER Award, which recognizes faculty who integrate education with their promising research.
In this newsletter, we report on recent quantum materials research at the NSF-supported QM2 CHEXS beamline. A team from 5 universities and 2 national labs reports on a new family of materials that offer the most pristine realization yet of an ideal, fully quantum spin-orbit coupled (J=1/2) magnetic system. Moreover, research on the CHEXS PIPOXS beamline on the synthesis of CuFeS2, an exciting semiconductor, outlines a method to verify its phase purity and investigate its properties.
Beamtime requests (BTRs) for existing beamtime proposals can be submitted until February 17th to be considered for the April to June 2021 CHESS experimental run. We expect to continue to operate the facility predominantly in remote mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also, there is still time to apply for the CHESS student summer programs (see here for details).
Stay safe and healthy,
Elke Arenholz, Associate Director, CHESS (email Elke)
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Beamlines in Focus - FAST
In our first in a series of beamline features, we dive into the capabilities and impact of the FAST beamline with Staff Scientist Kate Shanks. Kate talks about what kind of research happens at FAST, remote operations, 3D printing, brighter beams, and Moon rocks!
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Q&A with Ryan Hurley
Ryan Hurley, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Fellow of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, is a recipient of the NSF Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early-stage faculty who integrate education with their promising research. As CHESS strives to align research with education, we asked Ryan a few questions about the award and how he uses CHESS to pursue his research and educational goals.
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Women and Girls in Science at CHESS
February 11th was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. At CHESS, we are proud to have women in leadership roles that steer the scientific mission of the lab, scientists, postdocs and students who explore the future of materials, and research support specialists and technical experts who ensure that the everyday science at CHESS remains cutting edge.
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SRN Article: “Cartography” in 7-Dimensions at CHESS
An article on the mapping of structure in real space, reciprocal space, and time using high-energy X-rays was recently published in Synchrotron Radiation News. The article was written by Staff Scientist Kelly Nygren, CHESS user Darren Pagan, CHEXS Director Jacob Ruff, CHESS Associate Director Elke Arenholz, and CHESS Director Joel Brock.
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Approaching the ideal limit for spin-orbit-coupled quantum moments in iridium halides
New research from a large team from 5 Universities and 2 National Labs reports on a new family of iridium halide materials that provide the best-yet realization of the ideal quantum limit for spin-orbit coupled magnetic moments. These Jeff=½ magnets are promising systems to engineer new kinds of superconductors and realize new kinds of magnetic interactions.
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Fe Cations Control the Plasmon Evolution in CuFeS2 Nanocrystals
Research on the synthesis of CuFeS2, an exciting semiconductor, outlines a method to verify its phase purity and investigate its properties.
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HP Bio workshop at CHESS 2021
CHESS will be hosting an online high pressure biology workshop with a data collection and processing session April 30-May 1, 2021. The workshop will include tutorials and interactive remote data acquisition and analysis sessions. Registration is now open.
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