Dr Cathy Harland

Phone +1-630-252-6275
E-Mail  charland@aps.anl.gov

Dr Cathy Harland completed her BEng (I) at the University of Wollongong in 1995.  She worked for BHP Research for 2 years before returning to study and completed her PhD on rare earth ? iron ? boron (REFeB) based hard magnetic alloys at the University of Sheffield, UK, in 2000. 

Cathy then went on to a post doctoral position at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, working on the synthesis and analysis of bulk exchange bias materials and nanocomposite REFeB based alloys.  During this time she also worked for the American Physical Society as a senior editorial assistant for Physical Review B.  Cathy has been the ASRP beamline scientist at XOR at the Advanced Photon Source since March 2003.  Her current interests include rare-earth based magnetic and rapidly solidified alloys studied using polarized synchrotron radiation techniques.

Selected Recent Papers

L.H. Lewis and C.L. Harland, Field Dependence of the Spin Reorientation Temperature in Micro- and Nanocrystalline Forms of Nd₂Fe₁₄B, Proc. 17th International Workshop on Rare Earth Magnets and their Applications, Newark, USA, eds G.C. Hadjipanayis and M.J. Bonder, 2002, pp 572 - 578.

Z.C. Wang, H.A. Davies and C.L. Harland, IEEE Trans. Mag. 38(5) (2002), 2967

Y. Zhang, P. J. Warren, A. Cerezo, C. L. Harland and H. A. Davies, Partioning behavior and the effect of Co on the Curie temperature of nanocomposite PrFeCoB hard magnetic alloys, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 797 (2001).

H.A. Davies, J.I. Betancourt R. and C.L. Harland, Nanophase (Nd/Pr)₂Fe₁₄B/a-Fe alloys: Attractive materials for isotropic magnets with enhanced properties, Scripta Mater. 44, 1337 (2001).

C.L. Harland and H.A. Davies, Effect of Co and Zr on magnetic properties of nanophase PrFeB alloys, J. Appl. Phys. 87, 6116 (2000).

C.L. Harland and H.A. Davies, Magnetic properties of melt-spun Nd-rich alloys with Dy and Ga substitutions, J. Alloys and Compounds 281, 37 (1998).

D. Wexler, G.W. Delamore, N.V. Brown, C.L. Harland and B. Tate, Magnetic Properties and Microstructure of Nanocrystalline Fe₇₉Si₁₀B₁₀Cu₁, Materials Science Forum 225-227, 671 (1996).