Papers describing neutron scattering studies of minerals and ceramics

These papers contain various projects in which I have used neutron scattering methods. They are listed in reverse chronological order.

C M B Line, M T Dove and I P Swainson, "The dehydration of analcime studied using both coherent and incoherent neutron scattering". American Mineralogist (submitted, awaiting corrections)

M T Dove, I P Swainson, B M Powell and D C Tennant, "Structural studies of the orientational order-disorder phase transition in calcite, CaCO3". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals (submitted, awaiting corrections)

M T Dove, D A Keen, A C Hannon and I P Swainson, "Direct measurement of the Si-O bond length and orientational disorder in beta-cristobalite". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals (submitted 26/8/96)

S J Payne, M J Harris, M E Hagen and M T Dove, "A neutron diffraction study of the order-disorder phase transition in sodium nitrate". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (submitted)

M T Dove, M J Harris, A C Hannon, J M Parker, I P Swainson and M Gambhir, "Floppy modes in crystalline and amorphous silicate". Physical Review Letters (in press, 21/8/96)

M T Dove, "Silicates and soft modes". In Amorphous Insulators and Semiconductors: Proceedings of NATO ASI, ed. Thorpe, M.F. and Mitkova, M.I. (Kluwer, Dordrecht, in press)

D C Palmer, M T Dove, R M Ibberson and B M Powell, "Structural behavior, crystal chemistry and phase transitions in substituted leucites: High-resolution neutron powder diffraction". American Mineralogist 82, 16-30, 1997.

G Artioli, J M Besson, M T Dove, C A Geiger, R Rinaldi and W Schaefer, "Earth Sciences". In Scientific Prospects for Neutron Scattering with Present and Future Sources (ESF Framework Studies into Large Research Facilities) (ISBN 2-903148-90-2, ESF, Strasbourg), pp 94-108, 1996.

M J Harris, M T Dove and K W Godfrey, "A single crystal neutron scattering study of lattice melting in ferroelastic Na2CO3". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 8, 7073-7084, 1996.

M T Dove and M J Harris, "New light on the dynamics of silicate glasses". ISIS 96, The ISIS Facility Annual Report 1995-96, pp 48-49, 1996.

C M B Line, M T Dove, K S Knight and B Winkler, "The low-temperature behaviour of analcime, I: High-resolution neutron powder diffraction". Mineralogical Magazine 60, 499-507, 1996.

I P Swainson and M T Dove, "Molecular dynamics simulation of alpha- and beta-cristobalite". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 7, 1771-1788, 1995.

M J Harris, M T Dove and K W Godfrey, "Observation of lattice melting in a single crystal: The ferroelastic phase transition in Na2CO3". Physical Review B51, 6758-6760, 1995.

M J Harris and M T Dove, "Lattice Melting at Structural Phase Transitions". Modern Physics Letters B9, 67-85, 1995.

I P Swainson, M T Dove and M J Harris, "Neutron powder diffraction study of the ferroelastic phase transition in sodium carbonate". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Physics 7, 4395-4417, 1995.

C M B Line, B Winkler and M T Dove, "Quasielastic incoherent neutron scattering study of the rotational dynamics of the water molecules in analcime". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 21, 451-459, 1994.

I P Swainson and M T Dove, "On the thermal expansion of beta-cristobalite". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 22, 61-65, 1995.

M J Harris, R A Cowley, I P Swainson and M T Dove, "Observation of lattice melting at the ferroelastic phase transition in Na2CO3". Physical Review Letters 71, 2939-2942, 1993.

I P Swainson and M T Dove, "Low-frequency floppy modes in beta-cristobalite". Physical Review Letters 71, 193-196, 1993.

I P Swainson, M T Dove, W W Schmahl and A Putnis, "Neutron powder diffraction study of the Akermanite-Gehlenite solid solution series". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 19, 185-195, 1992.

W W Schmahl, I P Swainson, M T Dove and A Graeme-Barber, "Landau free energy and order parameter behaviour of the alpha/beta phase transition in cristobalite". Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 201, 125-145, 1992.

M Hagen, M T Dove, M J Harris, U Steigenberger and B M Powell, "Orientational order--disorder phase transition in calcite". Physica B 180-181, 276-278, 1992.

M T Dove, M E Hagen, M J Harris, B M Powell, U Steigenberger and B Winkler, "Anomalous inelastic neutron scattering from calcite". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 4, 2761-2774, 1992.

M T Dove, "Phase transitions in minerals". In ISIS Annual Report 1990, pp 41-46, 1990.

M T Dove and B M Powell, "Neutron diffraction study of the tricritical orientational order/disorder phase transition in calcite at 1260 K". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 16, 503-507, 1989.


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