Dr Frank Klose

Instrument scientist for Platypus, the neutron reflectometer
Professorial Visiting Fellow - School of Physics/ Faculty of Science
The University of New South Wales

Phone +61 2 9717 3592
Email Frank.Klose@ansto.gov.au

Frank's research interests are the areas magnetic thin film physics and hydrogen in materials.

His technical expertise includes neutron scattering instrumentation (reflectometry, polarized neutrons, neutron optics and guides, pulsed neutron scattering), synchrotron scattering and spectroscopy (MCXD and EXAFS), high-field superconducting magnets as well as UHV thin film deposition and characterization techniques.

Frank joins us from the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was a senior R&D staff scientist. He has been the Lead Scientist for the SNS Magnetism Reflectometer at ORNL as well as the instrument scientist on the V6 reflectometer at the Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin. Additionally he was a Professor of Technical Physics in Dresden, Germany and a Research Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory - Materials Science Division, in the USA.

Qualifications and achievements

• Published more than 70 refereed research articles in international journals & various book chapters/review articles about polarized neutrons, magnetic scattering and spallation neutron sources.
• Presented more than 50 invited lectures at international conferences/workshops and seminars/colloquia.
• Organized several international workshops/conferences/schools in the areas of polarized & high-field neutron scattering.
• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Goettingen, Germany (1993).

Key publications

D. Lott, J. Fenske, A. Schreyer, P. Mani, G. J. Mankey, F. Klose, W. Schmidt, K. Schmalzl, and E. V. Tartakovskaya, Antiferromagnetism in a Fe₅₀Pt₄₀Rh₁₀ thin film investigated  using neutron diffraction, Phys. Rev. B 78, 174413 (2008)

D. Lott, F. Klose, H. Ambaye, G.J. Mankey, P. Mani, M. Wolff, A. Schreyer, H.M. Christen and B.C. Sales, Chemical Order-Induced Exchange Bias in Epitaxial FePt₃ films, Phys. Rev. B 77, 132404 (2008).

F. Klose, N. Holtkamp, and D. Richter. 'Neutrons for Research' Journal of the German Physical Society, 23 - 29, (Jan 2007).

Ehlers and F. Klose. 'Characterization of Magnetic Materials by Means of Neutron Scattering' Handbook of Advanced Magnetic Materials, Vol. 2, Characterization and Simulation, Springer, 66 - 112 (2006).

I.S. Anderson, J. Cook, G.P. Felcher, T. Gentile, G. Greene, F. Klose, T. Koetzle, E. LelievreBerna, A. Parizzi, R. Pynn; and J. Zhao. 'Polarized Neutrons for Pulsed Neutron Sources' Journal of Neutron Research. 13 (4) 193-223 (2005) .

W.-T. Lee, S. G. E. te Velthuis, G. P. Felcher, F. Klose, T. Gredig, and E. D. Dahlberg. 'Magnetic domain distribution in thin films during magnetization reversal' Physical Review B 65 224417 (2002).

Ch. Rehm, H. Maletta, M. Fieber-Erdmann, E. Holub-Krappe, and F. Klose. 'Anomalous layer expansion in thin niobium films during hydrogen absorption, ' Physical Review B 65 113404 (2002).

Nawrath T., Fritzsche H., Klose F., Nowikow J., and Maletta H. 'In situ magnetometry with polarized neutrons on thin magnetic films' Phys. Rev. B 60 9525-9531 (1999).

Klose F., Rehm Ch., Nagengast D., Maletta H., and Weidinger A. 'Continuous and reversible change of the magnetic coupling in Fe/Nb multilayers induced by hydrogen charging, ' Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 1150-1153 (1997).

Klose F., Schulte O., Rose F., Felsch W., Pizzini, S., Giorgetti C., Baudelet F., Dartyge E., Krill G., and Fontaine A. 'Interfaces of Ce/Fe and La/Fe multilayers probed by magnetic circular X-ray dichroism,' Phys. Rev. B 50 6174-6183 (1994).