Ronald D. Edge, Professor Emeritus

Neutron diffraction provides crystalline magnetic structure which cannot be found using X-rays. We are employing the facilities of the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study the sub-microscopic magnetic structure of stainless steel alloys. this includes spin glass paramagnetic-antiferromagnetic transitions at low temperatures. We are also investigating Ferroelectric single crystals using the Intense Pulsed Neutron Sources at Argonne National Laboratory.

Selected Publications

"Low Temperature Phase and Magnetic Interactions in F. C. C. FeCrNi Alloys, "
C. Almasan, T. Datta, R. D. Edge, E. R. Jones, J. W. Cable and H. M. Ledbetter, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 80, 329 (1989).

"Polarization of KDP-Isomorph Ferroelectrics, "
V. Homer and R. D. Edge, Proceedings of the Boston Meeting of the Materials Research Society, 28 Nov. (1989).

"Spin Glass Behavior in a Single Crystal of Chromite, "
K. Severance R. D. Edge, W. E. Sharp, American Mineralogist 78, 724 (1993).