Staff profile
Dr Ian Terry, BSc Physics and Chemistry, Ph.D. Physics
(email at ian.terry@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
i) Responsibilities within Department
Member of the undergraduate admissions team
i) Teaching Activity
A lecturer of the level 3 module "Condensed Matter Physics"
Level 3 Nuclear Physics Laboratory Supervisor (Michaelmas and Epiphany Terms)
Level 4 project supervisor
A lecturer of the postgraduate condensed matter physics course
Research Interests
My research activities lie in the field of experimental condensed matter physics. I am particularly interested the magnetic properties of materials such as transition metal oxides, organic magnets and magnetic nanoparticles. Measurements on these systems are carried out with a commercial QD MPMS magnetometer as well as a dc SQUID-based magnetometer developed in-house which is capable low field magnetometry at temperatures above 300 mK. Other instrumentation includes a 9GHZ ESR spectrometer operating between 100K and 550K and electrical transport systems for temperatures ranging from 2K to 1300K. I also use international facilities (ISIS, Paul Scherrer Institut, Institut Laue-Langevin) for other magnetic measurements.
Research Groups
Indicators of Esteem
- : Member of the ISIS muon facility access panel.
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Giblin, S.R., Bramwell, S.T., Holdsworth, P.C.W., Prabhakaran, D. & Terry, I. (2011). Creation and measurement of long-lived magnetic monopole currents in spin ice. Nature Physics 7(3): 252-258.
- Schmidt, Rainer, Wu, J., Leighton, C. & Terry, I. (2009). Dielectric response to the low-temperature magnetic defect structure and spin state transition in polycrystalline LaCoO(3). Physical Review B 79(12): 125105.
- Giblin, S.R., Terry, I., Prabhakaran, D., Boothroyd, A.T. & Leighton, C. (2009). Low-temperature interactions of magnetic excitons in LaCoO(3). Physical Review B 79(17): 174410.
- Giblin, S.R., Champion, J.D.M., Zhou, H.D., Wiebe, C.R., Gardner, J.S., Terry, I., Calder, S., Fennell, T. & Bramwell, S.T. (2008). Static Magnetic Order in Tb(2)Sn(2)O(7) Revealed by Muon Spin Relaxation with Exterior Muon Implantation. Physical Review Letters 101(23): 237201.
- Giblin, S. R., Terry, I., Prabhakaran, D., Boothroyd, A. T., Wu, J. & Leighton, C. (2006). Local matrix-cluster interactions in a phase separated perovskite. Physical Review B 74(10): 104411.
- Read, D, Terry, I & Giblin, SR (2006). Low temperature magnetic susceptometer based upon a dc superconducting quantum interference device. Review Of Scientific Instruments 77(10): 3.
- Giblin, S. R., Terry, I., Read, D. E., Hillier, A. D. & Becla, P. (2006). Probing the magnetic ground state of the DX- center in Cd1-xMnxTe: In using muon spin relaxation. Physical Review B 73(5): 054421.
- Nguyen, HL, Howard, LEM, Stinton, GW, Giblin, SR, Tanner, BK, Terry, I, Hughes, AK, Ross, IM, Serres, A & Evans, JSO (2006). Synthesis of size-controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles. Chemistry Of Materials 18(26): 6414-6424.
- Howard, L. E. M. Nguyen, H. L. Giblin, S. R., Tanner, B. K. , Terry, I. , Hughes, A. K. & Evans, J. S. O. (2005). A synthetic route to size-controlled fcc and fct FePt nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127(29): 10140-10141.
- Giblin S. R., Terry I., Clark S. J., Prokscha T., Prabhakaran D., Boothroyd A. T., Wu J. & Leighton C. (2005). Observation of magnetic excitons in Lacoo3. Europhysics Letters 70(5): 677-683.
- Nguyen, HL, Howard, LEM, Giblin, SR, Tanner, BK, Terry, I, Hughes, AK, Ross, IM, Serres, A, Burckstummer, H & Evans, JSO (2005). Synthesis of monodispersed fcc and fct FePt/FePd nanoparticles bymicrowave irradiation. Journal Of Materials Chemistry 15(48): 8.
- Zaidi N. A., Giblin S. R, Terry I. & Monkman A. P. (2004). Room temperature magnetic order in an organic magnet derived from polyaniline. Polymer 45(16): 5683-5689.
Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
- Atomic particles: Basic matter: magnetism
- Atomic particles: Basic matter: semiconductor materials
- Engineering: Other contexts: low and ultra low temperatures