Biography:
2009 - 2013 - MSci in Chemistry, University of Cambridge
2013 - 2017 - PhD in Materials and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
2017 - 2018 - Post Doctoral Research Associate (Queens' College)
2018 - Present - Research Fellow - Gonville & Caius College
Research Interests
Diffuse X-ray and Neutron scattering and short-range order in metallic compounds. The use of Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) methods for analysis of the diffuse scattering to probe structural order, both long and short range, with particular reference to system phase transitions.
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Key Publications
H.Y. Playford, L.R. Owen, I. Levin, M.G. Tucker. “New insights into complex materials using Reverse Monte Carlo modeling.” Annual Reviews in Materials Research, 44 (2014), 429-449.
L.R. Owen, H.Y. Playford, H.J. Stone, M.G. Tucker, “A New Approach to the Analysis of Short-range Order in Alloys using total scattering”, Acta Materialia, 115 (2016) 155-166.
L.R. Owen, E.J. Pickering, H.Y. Playford, H.J. Stone, M.G. Tucker and N.G. Jones “An assessment of the lattice strain in the CrMnFeCoNi High-Entropy Alloy”, Acta Materialia, 122 (2017) 11-18.
L.R. Owen, H.Y. Playford, H.J. Stone and M.G. Tucker “Analysis of Short-Range Order in Cu3Au using X-ray Pair Distribution Functions”, Acta Materialia, 125 (2017) 15-26.
