eprintid: 10105573 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/10/55/73 datestamp: 2021-03-04 16:55:32 lastmod: 2021-11-23 01:12:24 status_changed: 2021-03-04 16:55:32 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Springell, R creators_name: Ward, RCC creators_name: Bouchet, J creators_name: Chivall, J creators_name: Wermeille, D creators_name: Normile, PS creators_name: Langridge, S creators_name: Zochowski, SW creators_name: Lander, GH title: Malleability of uranium: Manipulating the charge-density wave in epitaxial films ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F60 note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: We report x-ray synchrotron experiments on epitaxial films of uranium, deposited on niobium and tungsten seed layers. Despite similar lattice parameters for these refractory metals, the uranium epitaxial arrangements are different and the strains propagated along the orthorhombic a axis of the uranium layers are of opposite sign. At low temperatures these changes in epitaxy result in dramatic modifications to the behavior of the charge-density wave in uranium. The differences are explained with the current theory for the electron-phonon coupling in the uranium lattice. Our results emphasize the intriguing possibilities of producing epitaxial films of elements that have complex structures like the light actinides uranium to plutonium. date: 2014-06-15 date_type: published publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC official_url: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.245101 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 941567 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.245101 lyricists_name: Zochowski, Stanley lyricists_id: SWZOC40 actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic actors_id: DAALL44 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Physical Review B volume: 89 number: 24 article_number: 245101 pages: 6 citation: Springell, R; Ward, RCC; Bouchet, J; Chivall, J; Wermeille, D; Normile, PS; Langridge, S; ... Lander, GH; + view all <#> Springell, R; Ward, RCC; Bouchet, J; Chivall, J; Wermeille, D; Normile, PS; Langridge, S; Zochowski, SW; Lander, GH; - view fewer <#> (2014) Malleability of uranium: Manipulating the charge-density wave in epitaxial films. Physical Review B , 89 (24) , Article 245101. 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.245101 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.245101>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10105573/7/Zochowski_PhysRevB.89.245101.pdf