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Esen Alp

Senior Scientist

Inelastic X-ray and Nuclear Resonant ScatteringX-ray Science Division

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Publications:

P.A. Montano, G.K. Shenoy, E.E. Alp, W. Schulze, J. Urban, "Structure of Cu Microclusters Isolated in Solid Argon", Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 2076 (1986).

E.E. Alp, S.M. Mini, M. Ramanathan, B. Dabrowski, D. Richardson, D.G. Hinks, "Effect of Ce Doping On Cu in Electron Superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4", Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communication, 40 (1989) 2617.

E. E. Alp, T. M. Mooney, T. Toellner, W. Sturhahn, E. Witthoff, R. Röhlsberger, E. Gerdau, H. Homma, M. Kentjana, "Observation of Time Resolved Nuclear Scattering from 119Sn Nuclei", Phys. Rev. Lett., 70, 3351 (1993) .

W. Sturhahn, T. S. Toellner, E. E. Alp, X. Zhang, M. Ando, Y. Yoda, S. Kikuta, M. Seto, C. W. Kimball, B. Dabrowski, "Phonon Density of States Measured by Inelastic Nuclear Resonant Scattering", Phys. Rev. Lett.  74 (1995) 3832.

T. S. Toellner, R. Roehlsberger, W. Sturhahn, E. E. Alp, E. Fullerton, C. H. Sowers, "Observation of Pure Nuclear Diffraction from Fe/Cr Antiferromagnetic  Multilayer", Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 3475.

B. Fultz,  T. A. Stephens, W. Sturhahn, T. S. Toellner, E. E. Alp, “Local Chemical Environments and Partial Phonon Density of States of 57Fe in Fe3Al”,  Phys. Rev. Lett., 80 (1998) 3304

E. E. Alp,  W. Sturhahn, T. S. Toellner, “Polarizer-Analyzer Optics”,  Hyperfine Interactions, 125 (2000) 4568.

H. K. Mao, J. Xu, V. V. Struzhkin, J. Shu, R. J. Hemley, W. Sturhahn, M. Y. Hu, E. E. Alp, L. Vocadlo, D. Alfe, G. D. Price, M. J. Gillan, M. Schwoerer-Böhning, D. Häusermann, P. Eng, G. Shen, H. Giefers, R. Lübbers, G. Wortmann, “Phonon density of states of iron up to 153 Gigapascals, Science, 292 (2001) 914.

J. T. Sage, S. M. Durbin, W. Sturhahn, D. C. Wharton, P. M. Champion, P. Hession, J. Sutter, E. E. Alp, “Long range reactive dynamics in myoglobin”, Phys. Rev. Lett, 86,  (2001) 4966.

E. E. Alp, H. Sinn, A. Alatas, W. Sturhahn, T. Toellner, J. Zhao, J. Sutter, M. Hu, D. Shu, Y. Shvydko, “Source and Optics considerations for a new generation high resolution inelastic x-ray spectrometers”, Nucl. Instr. Meth.  A467 (2001) 617.

H. Sinn, B. Glorieux, L. Hennet, A. Alatas, M. Hu, E.E. Alp, F.J. Bermejo, D.L. Price, M.-L. Saboungi, “Microscopic dynamics of liquid aluminum oxide”, Science  299 (2003) 2047-2049.

Tse, J. S.; Klug, D. D.; Zhao, J. Y.; Sturhahn, W.; Alp, E. E.; Baumert, J.; Gutt, C.; Johnson, M. R.; Press, W.  Anharmonic motions of Kr in the clathrate hydrate.    Nature Materials  (2005),  4(12),  917-921.

N.M. Souza-Neto, J. Zhao, E.E. Alp, G. Shen, S.V. Sinogeikin, G. Lapertot, D. Haskel, "Reentrant Valence Transition in EuO at High Pressures: Beyond the Bond-Valence Model," Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 , 026403(2012).

E. Ercan Alp, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Thomas S. Toellner, Jiyong Zhao, Bogdan M. Leu, "Nuclear resonance scattering of synchrotron radiation as a unique electronic, structural and thermodynamic probe," The Rudolf Mössbauer Story, Michael Kalvius, Paul Kienle, eds., Springer, 2012, 339 - 372.


 

 

Interests:

Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Nuclear rEsonant Scattering

X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Mössbauer Spectroscopy

X-Ray Optics

Synchrotron Radiation

Education:

1976 BSc   Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 

1978 MSc  Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

1981 IAEA Fellow, II. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, DESY

1984, PhD, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Experience:

2002-present : Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

 

Awards and Honors

2002-present : Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory