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Branton Campbell

Branton J. Campbell
Assistant Professor

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Brigham Young University, N261 ESC, Provo, UT 84602
Tel: (801)-422-5758, Fax: (801)-422-0553
Email: branton_campbell@byu.edu   URL: http://physics.byu.edu/faculty/campbell/

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: Nanoscale correlations in disordered crystalline systems such as the colossal magnetoresistive manganites, relaxor ferroelectrics, and aluminosilicate framework materials. Experimental x-ray and neutron scattering. Novel methods of measuring multi-dimensional diffuse scattering and dispersion data.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

        Assistant Professor, 2002 - present

                Brigham Young University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

        Post Doctoral Research Associate, 1999-2002

                Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division

        Ph.D., Materials Science, 1999

                University of California at Santa Barbara, Materials Science Department

                Research advisor: Anthony K. Cheetham, Professor of Materials Science and Chemistry

        M.A., Physics, 1995

                University of California at Santa Barbara, Physics Department

        B.S. Magna Cum Laude, Physics and Mathematics, 1993

                Brigham Young University, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Mathematics

                Research advisor: Harold T. Stokes, Professor of Physics

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS

        American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, Neutron Scattering Society of America

        American Crystallographic Association (Materials SIG chair-elect 2007)

        DANSE project participant

        Several single-crystal neutron diffraction IDT/IATs of the Spallation Neutron Source

        Journal referee for Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Appl. Phys., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Am. Miner., J. Magn. Magn. Mater.,

        J. Chem. Phys., Physica B, J. Solid State Chem., Geophys. Res. Lett., and Z. Krist.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS (Full List)

"Order parameters for phase transitions to structures with one-dimensional incommensurate modulations", H. T. Stokes, B. J. Campbell, D. M. Hatch, Acta Cryst. A 6, 365-373 (2007).

"Rietveld refinement of structural distortion-mode amplitudes", B. J. Campbell, J. S. O. Evans, F. Perselli, H. T. Stokes, IUCr Computing Commission Newsletter 8, 81-95 (2007).

"Microscopic annealing process and its impact on superconductivity in T'-structure electron-doped copper oxides", H.J. Kang, P. Dai, B.J. Campbell, P. J. Chupas, S. Rosenkranz, P. L. Lee, Q. Huang, S. Li, S. Komiya, Y. Ando , Nature Materials 6, 224-229 (2007). A review of this work can be found at Nature Materials 6, 179-180 (2007).

"Diffuse scattering in the layered perovskites", B. J. Campbell, Z. Krist. 220, 1088 (2005).

"Elucidation of zeolite microstructure by synchrotron X-ray diffuse scattering", B.J. Campbell, T.R. Welberry, R.W. Broach, Hawoong Hong, A.K. Cheetham, J. Appl. Cryst. 37, 187-192 (2004).

American Crystallographic Association Meeting in Toronto, Canada (invited lecture), Jul 2009, B.J. Campbell, H.T. Stokes, J.S.O. Evans, F. Perselli, S. Kerman, K. Satyavarapu, "Nature's basis for parameterizing structural phase transitions".

North Americal Solid State Chemistry Conference in Columbus, Ohio (invited lecture), Jun 2009, B.J. Campbell, H.J. Kang, P. Dai, S. Li, S. Rosenkranz, P.L. Lee, P.J. Chupas, S. Komiya, Y. Ando, Q. Huang, "A microscopic mechanism for reversible phase changes in the electron-doped T' cuprate superconductors".

Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Meeting in San Francisco, California (invited lecture), Feb 2009, B.J. Campbell, "Huang-scattering as a probe of local defect structure".

21st Congress of the International Union of Crystallography in Osaka, Japan, Aug 2008, B.J. Campbell, J.S.O. Evans, F. Perselli, H.T. Stokes, S. Kerman, K.K. Satyavarapu, "Structural phase transitions: refining distortion-mode amplitudes instead of atomic coordinates".

American Crystallographic Association Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 2008 (invited lecture), B.J. Campbell, "Generating and visualizing one-dimensional incommensurate structural modulations".

  
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