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Simon J. L. Billinge

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Simon J. L. Billinge
Professor
(office) 1105 S.W. Mudd
(mail) 200 S.W. Mudd, Mail Code: 4701
New York, NY 10027

Phone: +1 212 854 2918
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Research Specialty

Nanoscale structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials studied using novel x-ray and neutron scattering techniques coupled with advanced computing; solving the nanostructure problem
 

Education

1987-1992 University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering
1982-1986 University of Oxford, BA Materials Science


Societies

American Physical Society, American Crystallographic Association, Neutron Scattering Society of America


Honors

Michigan State University, College of Nat. Sci., Distinguished Faculty Award, 2006
Thomas H. Osgood Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1998
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1995-1997
Sigma Xi Outstanding thesis award, U. Pennsylvania, 1992
Electro-science Laboratories Award, U. Pennsylvania, 1992

 

Books

T. Egami and S. J. L. Billinge, Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials, (Elsevier Science, Oxford, 2004).

S. J. L. Billinge and M. F. Thorpe, Editor, From semiconductors to proteins, beyond the average structure, Plenum, New York, 2002.

S. J. L. Billinge and M. F. Thorpe, Editor, Local structure from diffraction, Plenum, New York, 1998.3.

S. J. L. Billinge, Electronic Oxides: Properties and applications, Web Proceedings of the 11th Annual CFMR symposium

Select Publications

1. P. Juhas, D. M. Cherba, P. M. Duxbury, W. F. Punch and S. J. L. Billinge, Ab initio solid state nano-structure determination, Nature , 440, 655-658 (2006).

2. G. Paglia, E. S. Božin, D. Vengust, D. Mihailovic and S. J. L. Billinge, Accurate structure determination of Mo6SyIz nanowires from PDF analysis, Chem. Mater. 18, 100-106 (2006).

3. G. Paglia, E. S. Božin and S. J. L. Billinge, A novel fine-scale nanostructure in γ-Al2O3, Chem Mater. To be published.

4. G. Campi, E. Cappelluti, Th. Proffen, X. Qiu, E. S. Božin, S. J. L. Billinge, S. Agrestini, N. L. Saini and A. Bianconi, Local lattice dynamics in the MgB2 superconductor, J. Phys: Condens. Matter , Submitted. (2005).

5. Xiangyun Qiu, Th.Proffen, J. F. Mitchell and S. J. L. Billinge, Orbital correlations in the pseudocubic O and rhombohedral R-phases of LaMnO3, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177203 (2005).