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prof desmond mcmorrow

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Prof
Desmond
Francis
McMorrow
Prof Desmond McMorrow
Ex: 37189
d.mcmorrow@ucl.ac.uk
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/extResource/image/01/DFMCM17
2004-01-01

Appointment

ACAPRO
2004-01-01
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Chair in Experimental Physics
MW
London Centre for Nanotechnology
MPS
Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences

Joined UCL

2004-01-01

Research Summary

My research is focussed on understanding how electrons organise themselves in solids to produce the wonderfully diverse range of phenomena encountered in modern condensed matter physics. I am particularly interested in how low-dimensionality and strong collective quantum effects can produce new states of matter, such as the high-temperature superconductors, quantum spin liquids, etc.

The techniques I develop are based mainly on using x-rays and neutrons to probe the structural and magnetic correlations that dominate the low-energy behaviour of these and other interesting classes of solids. This invariably means that I spend significant periods of time at central facilities such as ISIS and the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, and the Institute Laue-Langevin and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, both located in Grenoble, France.

Research Activities

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Interplay of frustration with heavy-electron physics
156
Novel metal-organic quantum spin systems
153
Quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated quantum systems
158
Spin and lattice dynamics in novel iron-based superconductors
154
Spin dynamics in low-dimensional and frustrated quantum magnets

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Academic Background

Award Year

Qualification

Institution
1987

PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Manchester
1983

BSc Hons

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

University of Sheffield

Biography

2008-Present Deputy Director, London Centre for Nanotechnology
2004-Present Professor of Physics, UCL
2004-2009 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
2002-2003 Senior Research Scientist, Riso National Laboratory
2000-2002 Head of Research Programme, X-ray and Neutron scattering, Riso
1998-2003 External lecturer in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute
1993-2000 Senior Scientist, Risø
1991-1993 Senior College Lecturer, Keble College, Oxford
1990-1993 Research Fellow, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
1987-1990 Research Fellow, Physics Department, University of Edinburgh
1983-1987 Ph. D., University of Manchester
1979-1983 B.Sc. in Physics, University of Sheffield

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CRUEG40
dr christian ruegg

UCL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH

prof desmond mcmorrow

Research Summary

Robustness of basal-plane antiferromagnetic order and the $J_{eff}=1/2$ state in single-layer iridate spin-orbit Mott insulators

The J_{eff}=1/2 insulator Sr3Ir2O7 studied by means of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Antiferromagnetic order and domains in Sr3Ir2O7 probed by x-ray resonant scattering

Magnetically driven metal-insulator transition in NaOsO3

On the magnetic structure of Sr3Ir2O7: an x-ray resonant scattering study

Femtoscale Magnetically Induced Lattice Distortions in Multiferroic TbMnO3

Strong coupling of Sm and Fe magnetism in SmFeAsO as revealed by magnetic x-ray scattering

Circularly Polarized X Rays as a Probe of Noncollinear Magnetic Order in Multiferroic TbMnO3 (vol 102, 237205, 2009)

Helical spin waves, magnetic order, and fluctuations in the langasite compound Ba3NbFe3Si2O14

Comparative study of the phonons in non-superconducting BaC6 and superconducting CaC6 using inelastic x-ray scattering

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Biography