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Corwin H. Booth
Staff Scientist

 
Staff

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
1 Cyclotron Rd, MS 70A-1150
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA

Location: 70A-1154
Telephone:   (510)486-6079                   
Fax:   (510)486-5596
Email:   chbooth@lbl.gov
Website:   http://lise.lbl.gov/chbooth/


The Glenn T. Seaborg Center
 

Education

  

Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Dec. 1996

Thesis: Local structural distortions and disorder in advanced perovskite materials

Advisor: Prof. Frank Bridges

B.Sc. in Physics, minor in art history, University of California, San Diego, 1989
     

Professional Experience

  

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Aug. 1999-present.  Postdoctoral Associate, UC Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, (LANL), stationed at LANL, under,  Prof. Jon Lawrence and Dr. George Kwei, June 1997-July 1999.

Postdoctoral Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, under Dr. David K. Shuh, Feb.1997-May 1997.

Research Assistant, UC Santa Cruz under Prof. Frank Bridges, 1994-1996.

Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz Physics Department, 1990-1995

                       

   

Honors

  

International Union of Crystallography Young Scientist, 2000

Invited talks at XAFS XI, APS 1999, FSRCMR 1999, MRS 1997, others
     

Memberships

  

American Physical Society, International XAFS Society, Materials Research Society

Selected publications closely related to the research:           

  1. C. H. Booth, E. D. Bauer, M. B. Maple, J. M. Lawrence, G. H. Kwei, and J. L. Sarrao, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on X-Ray Absorption Fine-Structure (XAFS XI), J. Synchrotron Rad., in press (LBNL-47279).
  2. C. H. Booth, D. E. MacLaughlin, R. H. Heffner, R. Chau, M. B. Maple and G. H. Kwei. Pd/Cu site interchange and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in UCu4Pd.  Phys. Rev. Lett., 81:3960, 1998.
  3. C. H. Booth, J. S. Gardner, G. H. Kwei, R. H. Heffner, F. Bridges, and M. A. Subramanian.  Lattice disorder in the geometrically-frustrated spin glass pyrochlore Y2Mo2O7.  Phys. Rev. B: Rapid Comm., Phys. Rev. B, 62:R755, 2000.
  4. J. M. Lawrence, P. S. Riseborough, C. H. Booth, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and R. Osborn, Phys. Rev. B, 63:054427, 2001.
  5. C. H. Booth, P. G. Allen, J. J. Bucher, N. M. Edelstein, D. K. Shuh, G. K. Marasighe, M. Karabulut, C. S. Ray, and D. E. Day. Oxygen and Phosphorus Coordination Around Iron in Iron-Phosphate Glasses with UO2 or Na2O and Crystalline Ferric Ferrous Pyrophosphate. J. of Mater. Res., 14:2628, 1999.
  6. M. Karabulut, G. K. Marasinghe, C. S. Ray, D. E. Day, G. D. Waddill, P. G. Allen, C. H. Booth, J. J. Bucher, D. L. Caulder, D. K. Shuh, M. Grimsditch, M.-L. Saboungi. “Local Environment of Iron and Uranium Ions in Vitrified Iron Phosphate Glasses Studies by Fe K and U LIII X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy”, J. Mater. Res., 2000, 15, 1972.

Other Publications:       

  1. G. G. Li, F. Bridges, and C. H. Booth.  XAFS standards: a comparison of experiments and theory.  Phys. Rev. B, 52:6332, 1995.
  2. J. J. Rehr, C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, and S. I. Zabinsky.  X-ray-absorption fine-structure in embedded atoms.  Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.), 49:12347, 1994.
  3. F. Bridges, C. H. Booth, and G. G. Li.  An iterative approach to atomic background removal in XAFS data analysis.  Physica B (Proc. from XAFS VIII), 208&209:121, 1995.
  4. C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, G. H. Kwei, J. M. Lawrence, A. L. Cornelius, and J. J. Neumeier.  Direct relationship between magnetism and MnO6 distortions in La1‑xCaxMnO3.  Phys. Rev. Lett., 80:853, 1998.
  5. C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, E. D. Bauer, G. G. Li, J. B. Boyce, T. Claeson, C. H.  Chu, and Q. Xiong.  XAFS measurements of negatively correlated atomic displacements in HgBa2CuO4+d.  Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.), 52:R15745, 1995.

List of collaborators:

Members of the Glenn T Seaborg Center at LBNL:  Heino Nitsche, David K. Shuh, Wayne Lukens, Linfeng Rao, Petra Panak

Other current collaborators:

George H. Kwei (LLNL)                      John M. Lawrence (UCI)         John L. Sarrao (LANL)

Jason S. Gardner (Chalk River)            M. Brian Maple (UCSD)          Lance DeLong (UKy)

M. A. Subramanian (Dupont)                John A. Mydosh (Leiden)         Frank Bridges (UCSC)

Kanishka Marasinghe (UM, Rolla)        Linda Davis (PNNL)

Synergistic activities:

1. Developing r-space codes (RSXAP) for analyzing x-ray absorption spectra.  These routines include improved background-subtraction techniques (http://lise.lbl.gov/RSXAP/).

2. Compiling a standard materials EXAFS database.