BEUTIER Guillaume

Chargé de Recherche CNRS

My research projects focus on the development of advanced X-ray diffraction techniques using synchrotron radiation and using them for various problems of condensed matter physics.
Recent projects deal with:

- Imaging of strain and defects in nanocrystals using Coherent Bragg Imaging, in particular for the understanding of mechanical properties at the nanoscale. Recently we imaged for the first time a dislocation loop in a gold nanocrystal during in situ nanoindentation.

- A fundamental study of crystallographic "forbidden" reflections, their enhancement with resonant X-rays, and the information they provide on the local anisotropy of the resonant atoms. Recently we characterized the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (antisymmetric exchange coupling) in a series of weak ferromagnets.

- Quasicrystals and their periodic approximants. Recently we characterized the long range antiferromagnetic order in the series Cd6R (R=Rare-Earth) of approximants. They are of noteworthy interest, since the parent quasicrystals do not show long renage magnetic order.

- The development of a magnetic microscopy method using a combination of Fourier Transform Holography and X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism, to image complex micromagnetic configurations in nanostructures.

Activités / CV

Selected publications

  1. 3D imaging of a dislocation loop at the onset of plasticity in an indented nanocrystal
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  2. Band filling control of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in weakly ferromagnetic insulators
  3. Wetting layer of copper on the tantalum (001) surface
  4. Time-resolved imaging of magnetic vortex dynamics using holography with extended reference autocorrelation by linear differential operator
  5. Atomic structure of the i-R-Cd quasicrystals and consequences for magnetism
  6. Proton configurations in the hydrogen bonds of KH2PO4 as seen by resonant x-ray diffraction
  7. Ordering fluctuation dynamics in AuAgZn2
  8. Inversion Domain Boundaries in GaN Wires Revealed by Coherent Bragg Imaging
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  9. Signature of dislocations and stacking faults of face-centred cubic nanocrystals in coherent X-ray diffraction patterns: a numerical study
  10. Diffuse Multiple Scattering
  11. Measuring the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in a weak ferromagnet
  12. Antiferromagnetic order and the structural order-disorder transition in the Cd6Ho quasicrystal approximant
  13. Holographic imaging of interlayer coupling in Co/Pt/NiFe
  14. Strain inhomogeneity in copper islands probed by coherent X-ray diffraction
  15. Antiferromagnetic order in the quasicrystal approximant Cd6Tb studied by x-ray resonant magnetic scattering
  16. Direct Observation of Charge Order in Triangular Metallic AgNiO2 by Single-Crystal Resonant X-Ray Scattering
  17. Coherent scattering from silicon monocrystal surface
  18. Magnetic memory in discrete media observed by coherent soft x-ray resonant scattering
  19. Commensurate phase of multiferroic HoMn2O5 studied by x-ray magnetic scattering
  20. Characterization of FePd bilayers and trilayers using soft x-ray resonant magnetic scattering and micromagnetic modelling

Informations complémentaires

PhD thesis

Étude de nanostructures magnétiques par diffraction résonnante et cohérente de rayons X mous.

(Magnetic nanostructures studied by soft x-ray resonant and coherent scattering).

http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00108493

INP-Grenoble (2005)