Robert Michael Dimeo
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Review of Scientific Instruments | 2003
A. Meyer; Robert Michael Dimeo; P.M. Gehring; D. A. Neumann
We describe the design and current performance of the high-flux backscattering spectrometer located at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. The design incorporates several state-of-the-art neutron optical devices to achieve the highest flux on sample possible while maintaining an energy resolution of less than 1 μeV. Foremost among these is a novel phase-space transformation chopper that significantly reduces the mismatch between the beam divergences of the primary and secondary parts of the instrument. This resolves a long-standing problem of backscattering spectrometers, and produces a relative gain in neutron flux of 4.2. A high-speed Doppler-driven monochromator system has been built that is capable of achieving energy transfers of up to ±50 μeV, thereby extending the dynamic range of this type of spectrometer by more than a factor of 2 over that of other reactor-based backscattering instruments.
Journal of Chemical Physics | 2004
Sankar Nair; Robert Michael Dimeo; D. A. Neumann; A.J. Horsewill; Michael Tsapatsis
The methyl rotational tunneling spectrum of p-xylene confined in nanoporous zeolite crystals has been measured by inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and analyzed to extract the rotational potential energy surfaces characteristic of the methyl groups in the host-guest complex. The number and relative intensities of the tunneling peaks observed by INS indicate the presence of methyl-methyl coupling interactions in addition to the methyl-zeolite interactions. The INS tunneling spectra from the crystals (space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) with four crystallographically inequivalent methyl rotors) are quantitatively interpreted as a combination of transitions involving two coupled methyl rotors as well as a transition involving single-particle tunneling of a third inequivalent rotor, in a manner consistent with the observed tunneling energies and relative intensities. Together, the crystal structure and the absence of additional peaks in the INS spectra suggest that the tunneling of the fourth inequivalent rotor is strongly hindered and inaccessible to INS measurements. This is verified by proton NMR measurements of the spin-lattice relaxation time which reveal the tunneling characteristics of the fourth inequivalent rotor.
Journal of Chemical Physics | 2005
O. Kirstein; M. Prager; Robert Michael Dimeo; A. Desmedt
Methyl group dynamics of m-xylene was investigated by using incoherent inelastic and quasi-elastic neutron scattering. Inelastic measurements were carried out at the high flux backscattering spectrometer HFBS at the National Institute of Standards, quasi-elastic measurements at the time-of-flight spectrometer NEAT at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute. Rotational potentials are derived which describe the tunnel splittings, first librational, and activation energies of the two inequivalent CH(3) groups. Indications for coupling of the methyl rotation to low-energy phonons have been found. The finite width of one tunneling transition at He temperature is described by direct methyl-methyl coupling. The combined results of the experiments and the calculations allow a unique assignment of rotor excitations to crystallographic sites.
SLOW DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS: 3rd International Symposium on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems | 2004
Haskell Taub; Flemming Y. Hansen; L. Criswell; D. Fuhrmann; K. W. Herwig; A. Diama; H. Mo; Robert Michael Dimeo; D. A. Neumann; U. G. Volkmann
Monolayers of intermediate‐length alkane molecules such as tetracosane (n‐C24H50 or C24) serve as prototypes for studying the interfacial dynamics of more complex polymers, including bilayer lipid membranes. Using high‐resolution quasielastic neutron scattering (QNS) and exfoliated graphite substrates, we have investigated the relatively slow diffusive motion in C24 monolayers on an energy/time scale of ∼1–36 μeV (∼0.1–4 ns). Upon heating, we first observe QNS in the crystalline phase at ∼160 K. From the crystalline‐to‐smectic phase transition at ∼215 K to a temperature of ∼230 K, we observe the QNS energy width to be dispersionless, consistent with molecular dynamics simulations showing rotational motion of the molecules about their long axis. At 260 K, the QNS energy width begins to increase with wave vector transfer, suggesting onset of nonuniaxial rotational motion and bounded translational motion. We continue to observe QNS up to the monolayer melting temperature at ∼340 K where our simulations indic...
Macromolecules | 2003
Christopher L. Soles; and Jack F. Douglas; Wen-Li Wu; Robert Michael Dimeo
Physical Review Letters | 2002
Christopher L. Soles; Jack F. Douglas; Wen-Li Wu; Robert Michael Dimeo
Physical Review Letters | 2004
Flemming Y. Hansen; L. Criswell; D. Fuhrmann; K. W. Herwig; A. Diama; Robert Michael Dimeo; D. A. Neumann; Ulrich G. Volkmann; Haskell Taub
Macromolecules | 2001
Christopher L. Soles; Robert Michael Dimeo; D. A. Neumann; Alexander Kisliuk; Alexei P. Sokolov; Jian-Wei Liu; Albert F. Yee; Wen-Li Wu
Applied Physics A | 2002
Robert Michael Dimeo; Z. Chowdhuri; A. Meyer; P.M. Gehring; D. A. Neumann
Physical Review Letters | 2004
Alan F. Yue; Alexander B. Papandrew; Olivier Delaire; B. Fultz; Z. Chowdhuri; Robert Michael Dimeo; D. A. Neumann