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Amanda Petford-Long

Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Contact

2220 Campus Drive
Cook Hall 2036
Evanston, IL 60208

Email Amanda Petford-Long

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Petford-Long Research Group

Departments

Materials Science and Engineering

Affiliations

PhD Program in Applied Physics

Education

D.Phil, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

B.Sc. Physics (Hons) Class 2i, University College London, London, UK


Research Interests

The research in my group concentrates on understanding the behavior of magnetic, ferroelecctric and multiferroic oxide nanostructures, and in particular on determining the role that interfaces play in controlling this behavior. We are correlating the ferroic and transport properties with microstructure, magnetic domain structure and composition profile, determined using a range of high-resolution electron-microscopy, atomic force microscopy and position-sensitive atom probe techniques, including Lorentz microscopy for imaging magnetic domains and piezoforce microscopy for imaging ferroelectric domains. We are also developing in-situ TEM techniques for the investigation of magnetization reversal and transport behavior.


Significant Recognition

  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, elected 2005
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected 2008
  • Argonne Distinguished Fellow, elected 2010
  • Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, elected 2017

Significant Professional Service

  • Chair, Division of Materials Physics, American Physical Society, 2018–2019
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee member, Institute for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research, Trinity College Dublin

Selected Publications

  • Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Brajuskovic, Vuk; Li, Yue; McCray, Arthur R.C.; Phatak, Charudatta, Imaging and Understanding 3D Nanoscale Magnetic Structures, Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada (2023).
  • McCray, Arthur R.C.; Lebedev, Dmitry; Arpaci, Sevdenur; Te Velthuis, Suzanne G.E.; Lopez-Dominguez, Victor; Amiri, Pedram Khalili; Hersam, Mark C.; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta, Control of Magnetic Skyrmions in an Exchange Biased van der Waals Ferromagnet, Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada (2023).
  • Trujillo, Kayna L.Mendoza; Divan, Ralu N.S.; Li, Yue; Jiang, Yi; McCray, Arthur R.C.; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta, Electron Ptychography for Investigating Magnetic Textures in Micro- and Nano- Scale Magnets via Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy, Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada (2023).
  • McCray, Arthur R.C.; Cherukara, Mathew; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta, 3D Magnetization Reconstruction for Lorentz Microscopy using Differential Programming, Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada (2023).
  • Cote, Timothy; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta, Direct observation of magnetic ordering induced via systematic lattice disorder in artificial rhombus spin ices, Nanoscale (2023).
  • McCray, Arthur R.C.; Li, Yue; Qian, Eric; Li, Yi; Wang, Wei; Huang, Zhengjie; Ma, Xuedan; Liu, Yuzi; Chung, Duck Young; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta, Direct Observation of Magnetic Bubble Lattices and Magnetoelastic Effects in van der Waals Cr2Ge2Te6, Advanced Functional Materials (2023).
  • Casas, Brian W.; Li, Yue; Moon, Alex; Xin, Yan; McKeever, Conor; Macy, Juan; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta M.; Santos, Elton J.G.; Choi, Eun Sang; Balicas, Luis, Coexistence of Merons with Skyrmions in the Centrosymmetric Van Der Waals Ferromagnet Fe5–xGeTe2, Advanced Materials (2023).
  • Li, Yue; Hu, Xiaobing; Fereidouni, Arash; Basnet, Rabindra; Pandey, Krishna; Wen, Jianguo; Liu, Yuzi; Zheng, Hong; Churchill, Hugh O.H.; Hu, Jin; Petford-Long, Amanda K.; Phatak, Charudatta, Visualizing the Effect of Oxidation on Magnetic Domain Behavior of Nanoscale Fe3GeTe2 for Applications in Spintronics, ACS Applied Nano Materials (2023).