Olivier Delaire

Education

• M.Sc. Pennsylvania State University, 2000
• Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2006

Positions

• Associate Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Associate Professor of Physics
• Associate Professor of Chemistry
• Associate Professor in Physics

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• DOE EARLY CAREER AWARD 2014 u201cQuasiparticle Couplings in Transport of Heat, Charge, and Spin for Novel Energy Materialsu201d. Department of Energy. 2014
• World Materials Research Institute Forum Prize, 2nd International Workshop for Young Materials Scientists, Berlin, Germany. World Materials Research Institute. 2010
• Director's Award, Outstanding Science Team Accomplishment. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 2009
• Louis Rosen Prize. Los Alamos National Laboratory . 2008
• Clifford G. Shull Fellowship. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 2008
• Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award. Neutron Scattering Society of America. 2006

Courses Taught

• PHYSICS 995: Graduate Training Internship
• PHYSICS 791: Special Readings
• MSEG 591: Independent Study
• ME 758S: Curricular Practical Training
• ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
• ME 510: Diffraction and Spectrometry of Materials
• ME 492: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 491: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 490: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

Publications

• de la Peña Muñoz GA, Correa AA, Yang S, Delaire O, Huang Y, Johnson AS, et al. Ultrafast lattice disordering can be accelerated by electronic collisional forces. Nature Physics. 2023 Oct 1;19(10):1489–94.
• Huang Y, Teitelbaum S, Yang S, De la Peña G, Sato T, Chollet M, et al. Nonthermal Bonding Origin of a Novel Photoexcited Lattice Instability in SnSe. Physical review letters. 2023 Oct;131(15):156902.
• Gupta MK, Kumar S, Mittal R, Mishra SK, Rols S, Delaire O, et al. Distinct anharmonic characteristics of phonon-driven lattice thermal conductivity and thermal expansion in bulk MoSe2 and WSe2. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2023 Sep 19;11(40):21864–73.
• Ren Q, Gupta MK, Jin M, Ding J, Wu J, Chen Z, et al. Extreme phonon anharmonicity underpins superionic diffusion and ultralow thermal conductivity in argyrodite Ag₈SnSe₆. Nature materials. 2023 Aug;22(8):999–1006.
• Huang Y, Teitelbaum S, Yang S, na GDLP, Chollet TSM, Zhu D, et al. Determination of nonthermal bonding origin of a novel photoexcited lattice instability in SnSe. 2023.
• Chen L, Mao C, Chung J-H, Stone MB, Kolesnikov AI, Wang X, et al. Anisotropic magnon damping by zero-temperature quantum fluctuations in ferromagnetic CrGeTe₃. Nature communications. 2022 Jul;13(1):4037.
• Chen L, Mao C, Chung J-H, Stone MB, Kolesnikov AI, Wang X, et al. Anisotropic magnon damping by zero-temperature quantum fluctuations in ferromagnetic CrGeTe$_3$. 2022.
• Gupta MK, Ding J, Bansal D, Abernathy DL, Ehlers G, Osti NC, et al. Strongly Anharmonic Phonons and Their Role in Superionic Diffusion and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity of Cu7PSe6. Advanced Energy Materials. 2022 Jun 1;12(23).
• Sala G, Mourigal M, Boone C, Butch NP, Christianson AD, Delaire O, et al. CHESS: The future direct geometry spectrometer at the second target station. The Review of scientific instruments. 2022 Jun;93(6):065109.
• Li J, Wu L, Yang S, Jin X, Wang W, Tao J, et al. Direct Detection of V-V Atom Dimerization and Rotation Dynamic Pathways upon Ultrafast Photoexcitation in VO2. Physical Review X. 2022 Jun 1;12(2).
• Kumar S, Gupta MK, Goel P, Mittal R, Delaire O, Thamizhavel A, et al. Solidlike to liquidlike behavior of Cu diffusion in superionic Cu2 X (X= S, Se): An inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio molecular dynamics investigation. Physical Review Materials. 2022 May 1;6(5).
• Jiang MP, Fahy S, Hauber A, Murray ÉD, Savić I, Bray C, et al. Observation of photo-induced plasmon-phonon coupling in PbTe via ultrafast x-ray scattering. Structural dynamics (Melville, NY). 2022 Mar;9(2):024301.
• Huang Y, Yang S, Teitelbaum S, De La Peña G, Sato T, Chollet M, et al. Observation of a Novel Lattice Instability in Ultrafast Photoexcited SnSe. Physical Review X. 2022 Mar 1;12(1).
• Kumar S, Gupta MK, Goel P, Mittal R, Delaire O, Thamizhavel A, et al. Solid-like to Liquid-like Behavior of Cu Diffusion in Superionic Cu2X (X=S, Se): An Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation. 2022.
• Guzelturk B, Trigo M, Delaire O, Reis DA, Lindenberg AM. Dynamically Tunable Terahertz Emission Enabled by Anomalous Optical Phonon Responses in Lead Telluride. ACS Photonics. 2021 Dec 15;8(12):3633–40.
• He X, Krogstad M, Gupta MK, Lanigan-Atkins T, Mao C, Ye F, et al. Multiple lattice instabilities and complex ground state in Cs$_2$AgBiBr$_6$. 2021.
• Gupta MK, Ding J, Osti NC, Abernathy DL, Arnold W, Wang H, et al. Fast Na diffusion and anharmonic phonon dynamics in superionic Na3PS4. Energy and Environmental Science. 2021 Dec 1;14(12):6554–63.
• Rettie AJE, Ding J, Zhou X, Johnson MJ, Malliakas CD, Osti NC, et al. A two-dimensional type I superionic conductor. Nature materials. 2021 Dec;20(12):1683–8.
• Jiang MP, Trigo M, Fahy S, Hauber A, Murray ÉD, Savić I, et al. Photo-induced plasmon-phonon coupling in PbTe. 2021.
• Gupta MK, Mittal R, Kumar S, Singh B, Jalarvo NH, Delaire O, et al. Stoichiometric tuning of lattice flexibility and Na diffusion in NaAlSiO4: quasielastic neutron scattering experiment andab initiomolecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2021 Aug 7;9(29):16129–36.
• Wang J, Ding J, Delaire O, Arya G. Atomistic Mechanisms Underlying Non-Arrhenius Ion Transport in Superionic Conductor AgCrSe₂. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2021 Jul 26;4(7):7157–67.
• Lanigan-Atkins T, He X, Krogstad MJ, Pajerowski DM, Abernathy DL, Xu GNMN, et al. Two-dimensional overdamped fluctuations of the soft perovskite lattice in CsPbBr3. Nat Mater. 2021 Jul;20(7):977–83.
• Huang Y, Yang S, Teitelbaum S, Pena GDL, Sato T, Chollet M, et al. Observation of a Novel Lattice Instability in Ultrafast Photoexcited SnSe. 2021.
• Gupta MK, Mittal R, Singh B, Delaire O, Achary SN, Rols S, et al. Phonons and lithium diffusion in LiAlO2. Physical Review B. 2021 May 13;103(17).
• Ding J, Lanigan-Atkins T, Calderón-Cueva M, Banerjee A, Abernathy DL, Said A, et al. Soft anharmonic phonons and ultralow thermal conductivity in Mg₃(Sb, Bi)₂ thermoelectrics. Science advances. 2021 May;7(21):eabg1449.
• Calderón-Cueva M, Peng W, Clarke SM, Ding J, Brugman BL, Levental G, et al. Anisotropic Structural Collapse of Mg3Sb2and Mg3Bi2at High Pressure. Chemistry of Materials. 2021 Jan 26;33(2):567–73.
• Niedziela JL, Bansal D, Ding J, Lanigan-Atkins T, Li C, May AF, et al. Controlling phonon lifetimes via sublattice disordering in AgBiSe2. Physical Review Materials. 2020 Oct 12;4(10).
• Wang J, Dolyniuk JA, Krenkel EH, Niedziela JL, Tanatar MA, Timmons EI, et al. Clathrate BaNi2P4: An Interplay of Heat and Charge Transport Due to Strong Host-Guest Interactions. Chemistry of Materials. 2020 Sep 22;32(18):7932–40.
• Lanigan-Atkins T, Yang S, Niedziela JL, Bansal D, May AF, Puretzky AA, et al. Extended anharmonic collapse of phonon dispersions in SnS and SnSe. Nature Communications. 2020 Sep 4;11(1).
• Ding J, Niedziela JL, Bansal D, Wang J, He X, May AF, et al. Anharmonic lattice dynamics and superionic transition in AgCrSe ₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020 Feb 25;117(8):3930–7.
• Delaire O. Quasiparticle Couplings in Transport of Heat, Charge, and Spin for Novel Energy Materials. Final report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI); 2020 Jan.
• He X, Bansal D, Winn B, Chi S, Boatner L, Delaire O. Anharmonic Eigenvectors and Acoustic Phonon Disappearance in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3. Physical Review Letters. 2020;124(14).
• Bansal D, Niedziela JL, Calder S, Lanigan-Atkins T, Rawl R, Said AH, et al. Magnetically driven phonon instability enables the metal–insulator transition in h-FeS. Nature Physics. 2020;
• Bansal D, Niedziela JL, He X, Lanigan-Atkins T, Said A, Alatas A, et al. Lattice dynamics of the hybrid improper ferroelectrics (Ca,Sr)3Ti2 O7. Physical Review B. 2019 Dec 6;100(21).
• Neu J, Wei K, He X, Delaire O, Baumbach R, Feng Z, et al. Orthorhombic to monoclinic phase transition in NbNiTe2. Physical Review B. 2019 Oct 11;100(14).
• Li F, Shen J, Parnell SR, Thaler AN, Matsuda M, Keller T, et al. High-resolution phonon energy shift measurements with the inelastic neutron spin echo technique. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 2019 Aug 1;52(4):755–60.
• Leiner JC, Jeschke HO, Valentí R, Zhang S, Savici AT, Lin JYY, et al. Frustrated Magnetism in Mott Insulating (V1-xCrx)2 O3. Physical Review X. 2019 Feb 21;9(1).
• Niedziela JL, Bansal D, May AF, Ding J, Lanigan-Atkins T, Ehlers G, et al. Selective breakdown of phonon quasiparticles across superionic transition in CuCrSe 2. Nature Physics. 2019 Jan 1;15(1):73–8.
• Bansal D, Niedziela JL, Sinclair R, Garlea VO, Abernathy DL, Chi S, et al. Momentum-resolved observations of the phonon instability driving geometric improper ferroelectricity in yttrium manganite. Nature Communications. 2018 Dec 1;9(1).
• Wall S, Yang S, Vidas L, Chollet M, Glownia JM, Kozina M, et al. Ultrafast disordering of vanadium dimers in photoexcited VO ₂. Science. 2018 Nov 2;362(6414):572–6.
• Krauskopf T, Muy S, Culver SP, Ohno S, Delaire O, Shao-Horn Y, et al. Comparing the Descriptors for Investigating the Influence of Lattice Dynamics on Ionic Transport Using the Superionic Conductor Na₃PS_{4- x}Se _x. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018 Oct;140(43):14464–73.
• Liu K, Lee S, Yang S, Delaire O, Wu J. Recent progresses on physics and applications of vanadium dioxide. Materials Today. 2018 Oct 1;21(8):875–96.
• Zevalkink A, Smiadak DM, Blackburn JL, Ferguson AJ, Chabinyc ML, Delaire O, et al. A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization. Applied Physics Reviews. 2018 Jun 1;5(2).
• Mao J, Niedziela JL, Wang Y, Xia Y, Ge B, Liu Z, et al. Self-compensation induced vacancies for significant phonon scattering in InSb. Nano Energy. 2018 Jun 1;48:189–96.
• Muy S, Bachman JC, Giordano L, Chang HH, Abernathy DL, Bansal D, et al. Tuning mobility and stability of lithium ion conductors based on lattice dynamics. Energy and Environmental Science. 2018 Apr 1;11(4):850–9.
• Muy S, Bachman J, Giordano L, Abernathy D, Bansal D, Delaire O, et al. Mobility and stability descriptors of lithium ion conductors based on lattice dynamics. In: ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. AMER CHEMICAL SOC; 2018.
• Luo C, Bansal D, Li J, Viehland D, Winn B, Ren Y, et al. Neutron and x-ray scattering study of phonon dispersion and diffuse scattering in (Na,Bi)Ti O3-xBaTi O3 single crystals near the morphotropic phase boundary. Physical Review B. 2017 Nov 10;96(17).
• Mukhopadhyay S, Bansal D, Delaire O, Perrodin D, Bourret-Courchesne E, Singh DJ, et al. The curious case of cuprous chloride: Giant thermal resistance and anharmonic quasiparticle spectra driven by dispersion nesting. Physical Review B. 2017 Sep 5;96(10).
• Berlijn T, Snijders PC, Delaire O, Zhou HD, Maier TA, Cao HB, et al. Itinerant Antiferromagnetism in RuO2. Physical Review Letters. 2017 Feb 15;118(7).
• Bansal D, Niedziela JL, May AF, Said A, Ehlers G, Abernathy DL, et al. Lattice dynamics and thermal transport in multiferroic CuCrO2. Physical Review B. 2017 Feb 9;95(5).
• Lee S, Hippalgaonkar K, Yang F, Hong J, Ko C, Suh J, et al. Anomalously low electronic thermal conductivity in metallic vanadium dioxide. Science (New York, NY). 2017 Jan;355(6323):371–4.
• Bao F, Archibald R, Niedziela J, Bansal D, Delaire O. Complex optimization for big computational and experimental neutron datasets. Nanotechnology. 2016 Dec;27(48):484002.
• Chen X, Bansal D, Sullivan S, Abernathy DL, Aczel AA, Zhou J, et al. Weak coupling of pseudoacoustic phonons and magnon dynamics in the incommensurate spin-ladder compound S r14 C u24 O41. Physical Review B. 2016 Oct 21;94(13).
• Bansal D, Aref A, Dargush G, Delaire O. Modeling non-harmonic behavior of materials from experimental inelastic neutron scattering and thermal expansion measurements. Journal of physics Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal. 2016 Sep;28(38):385201.
• Bansal D, Hong J, Li CW, May AF, Porter W, Hu MY, et al. Phonon anharmonicity and negative thermal expansion in SnSe. Physical Review B. 2016 Aug 9;94(5).
• Jiang MP, Trigo M, Savic I, Fahy S, Murray D, Bray C, et al. The origin of incipient ferroelectricity in lead telluride. Nature Communications. 2016 Jul 22;7.
• Bao F, Archibald R, Bansal D, Delaire O. Hierarchical optimization for neutron scattering problems. Journal of Computational Physics. 2016 Jun 15;315:39–39.
• Luo C, Wang Y, Ge W, Li J, Viehland D, Delaire O, et al. Hierarchical domain structure of lead-free piezoelectric (Na1/2 Bi1/2)TiO3-(K1/2 Bi1/2)TiO3 single crystals. Journal of Applied Physics. 2016 May 4;119(17).
• May AF, Delaire O, Niedziela JL, Lara-Curzio E, Susner MA, Abernathy DL, et al. Structural phase transition and phonon instability in Cu12Sb4S13. Physical Review B. 2016 Feb;93(6).
• Hong J, Delaire O. Electronic Instability and Anharmonicity in SnSe. Materials Today Physics. 2016;10:100093–100093.
• Bansal D, Li CW, Said AH, Abernathy DL, Yan J, Delaire O. Electron-phonon coupling and thermal transport in the thermoelectric compound Mo3Sb(7−x)Te(x). Physical Review B. 2015 Dec;92(21).
• Li CW, Hong J, May AF, Bansal D, Chi S, Hong T, et al. Orbitally driven giant phonon anharmonicity in SnSe. Nature Physics. 2015 Dec 1;11(12):1063–9.
• Specht ED, Ma J, Delaire O, Budai JD, May AF, Karapetrova EA. Nanoscale Structure in AgSbTe2 Determined by Diffuse Elastic Neutron Scattering. Journal of Electronic Materials. 2015 Jun 1;44(6):1536–9.
• Chen X, Weathers A, Carrete J, Mukhopadhyay S, Delaire O, Stewart DA, et al. Twisting phonons in complex crystals with quasi-one-dimensional substructures. Nature communications. 2015 Apr;6:6723.
• Delaire O, Al-Qasir II, May AF, Li CW, Sales BC, Niedziela JL, et al. Heavy-impurity resonance, hybridization, and phonon spectral functions in Fe(1−x)M(x)Si (M=Ir, Os). Physical Review B. 2015 Mar;91(9).
• Jiang MP, Trigo M, Fahy S, Murray ÉD, Savić I, Bray C, et al. Photoinduced suppression of the ferroelectric instability in PbTe. 2015;
• Li CW, Ma J, Cao HB, May AF, Abernathy DL, Ehlers G, et al. Anharmonicity and atomic distribution of SnTe and PbTe thermoelectrics. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2014 Dec 29;90(21).
• Budai JD, Hong J, Manley ME, Specht ED, Li CW, Tischler JZ, et al. Metallization of vanadium dioxide driven by large phonon entropy. Nature. 2014 Nov;515(7528):535–9.
• Ma J, Delaire O, Specht ED, May AF, Gourdon O, Budai JD, et al. Phonon scattering rates and atomic ordering in Ag(1−x)Sb(1+x)Te(2+x) (x=0, 0.1, 0.2) investigated with inelastic neutron scattering and synchrotron diffraction. Physical Review B. 2014 Oct;90(13).
• Lara-Curzio E, May AF, Delaire O, McGuire MA, Lu X, Liu CY, et al. Low-temperature heat capacity and localized vibrational modes in natural and synthetic tetrahedrites. Journal of Applied Physics. 2014 May 21;115(19).
• Li CW, Hellman O, Ma J, May AF, Cao HB, Chen X, et al. Phonon self-energy and origin of anomalous neutron scattering spectra in SnTe and PbTe thermoelectrics. Physical review letters. 2014 May;112(17):175501.
• Carlton CE, De Armas R, Ma J, May AF, Delaire O, Shao-Horn Y. Natural nanostructure and superlattice nanodomains in AgSbTe2. Journal of Applied Physics. 2014 Apr 14;115(14).
• Manley ME, Lynn JW, Abernathy DL, Specht ED, Delaire O, Bishop AR, et al. Phonon localization drives polar nanoregions in a relaxor ferroelectric. Nature communications. 2014 Apr;5:3683.
• Borreguero JM, Campbell SI, Delaire OA, Doucet M, Goswami M, Hagen ME, et al. Integrating advanced materials simulation techniques into an automated data analysis workflow at the spallation neutron source. In: TMS Annual Meeting. 2014. p. 297–308.
• Shiga T, Murakami T, Hori T, Delaire O, Shiomi J. Origin of anomalous anharmonic lattice dynamics of lead telluride. Applied Physics Express. 2014 Jan 1;7(4).
• Pramanick A, Diallo SO, Delaire O, Calder S, Christianson AD, Wang XL, et al. Origins of large enhancement in electromechanical coupling for nonpolar directions in ferroelectric BaTiO3. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2013 Nov 15;88(18).
• Ma J, Delaire O, May AF, Carlton CE, McGuire MA, VanBebber LH, et al. Glass-like phonon scattering from a spontaneous nanostructure in AgSbTe2. Nature nanotechnology. 2013 Jun;8(6):445–51.
• Delaire O, Al-Qasir II, Ma J, Dos Santos AM, Sales BC, Mauger L, et al. Effects of temperature and pressure on phonons in FeSi1-xAl x. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2013 May 31;87(18).
• Delaire OA, Stassis C. Phonon Studies. 2012 Oct 12;1–22.
• Shiga T, Shiomi J, Ma J, Delaire O, Radzynski T, Lusakowski A, et al. Microscopic mechanism of low thermal conductivity in lead telluride. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2012 Apr 10;85(15).
• Delaire O, Stone MB, Ma J, Huq A, Gout D, Brown C, et al. Anharmonic phonons and magnons in BiFeO 3. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2012 Feb 13;85(6).
• May AF, McGuire MA, Ma J, Delaire O, Huq A, Custelcean R. Properties of single crystalline AZn 2Sb 2 (A Ca,Eu,Yb). Journal of Applied Physics. 2012 Feb 1;111(3).
• May AF, McGuire MA, Singh DJ, Ma J, Delaire O, Huq A, et al. Thermoelectric transport properties of CaMg 2Bi 2, EuMg 2Bi 2, and YbMg 2Bi 2. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2012 Jan 11;85(3).
• Abernathy DL, Stone MB, Loguillo MJ, Lucas MS, Delaire O, Tang X, et al. Design and operation of the wide angular-range chopper spectrometer ARCS at the Spallation Neutron Source. The Review of scientific instruments. 2012 Jan;83(1):015114.
• Muñoz JA, Lucas MS, Delaire O, Winterrose ML, Mauger L, Li CW, et al. Positive vibrational entropy of chemical ordering in FeV. Physical review letters. 2011 Sep;107(11):115501.
• Delaire O, Ma J, Marty K, May AF, McGuire MA, Du M-H, et al. Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe. Nature materials. 2011 Jun;10(8):614–9.
• Markovskiy ND, Muñoz JA, Lucas MS, Li CW, Delaire O, Stone MB, et al. Nonharmonic phonons in MgB2 at elevated temperatures. Physical Review B. 2011 May;83(17).
• Sales BC, Delaire O, McGuire MA, May AF. Thermoelectric properties of Co-, Ir-, and Os-doped FeSi alloys: Evidence for strong electron-phonon coupling. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2011 Mar 28;83(12).
• Delaire O, Marty K, Stone MB, Kent PRC, Lucas MS, Abernathy DL, et al. Phonon softening and metallization of a narrow-gap semiconductor by thermal disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2011 Mar 22;108(12):4725–30.
• Lucas MS, Muñoz JA, Delaire O, Markovskiy ND, Stone MB, Abernathy DL, et al. Effects of composition, temperature, and magnetism on phonons in bcc Fe-V alloys. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2010 Oct 22;82(14).
• Lucas MS, Muñoz JA, Mauger L, Li CW, Sheets AO, Turgut Z, et al. Erratum: Effects of chemical composition and B2 order on phonons in bcc Fe-Co alloys (Journal of Applied Physics (2010) 108 (023519)). Journal of Applied Physics. 2010 Oct 1;108(7).
• Lucas MS, Munz JA, Mauger L, Li CW, Sheets AO, Turgut Z, et al. Effects of chemical composition and B2 order on phonons in bcc Fe-Co alloys. Journal of Applied Physics. 2010 Jul 15;108(2).
• Delaire O. Studies of high-temperature electron-phonon interactions with inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles computations. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing. 2010 Jun 1;99(3):523–9.
• Delaire O, Lucas MS, Dos Santos AM, Subedi A, Sefat AS, McGuire MA, et al. Temperature and pressure dependence of the Fe-specific phonon density of states in Ba ( Fe1-x Cox)2As2. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2010 Mar 4;81(9).
• Lucas MS, Delaire O, Winterrose ML, Swan-Wood T, Kresch M, Halevy I, et al. Effects of vacancies on phonon entropy of B2 FeAl. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2009 Dec 21;80(21).
• Delaire O, May AF, McGuire MA, Porter WD, Lucas MS, Stone MB, et al. Phonon density of states and heat capacity of La(3−x)Te4. Physical Review B. 2009 Nov;80(18).
• Christianson AD, Lumsden MD, Delaire O, Stone MB, Abernathy DL, McGuire MA, et al. Phonon density of states of LaFeAsO(1-x)Fx. Physical review letters. 2008 Oct;101(15):157004.
• Delaire O, Lucas MS, Muñoz JA, Kresch M, Fultz B. Adiabatic electron-phonon interaction and high-temperature thermodynamics of A15 compounds. Physical review letters. 2008 Sep;101(10):105504.
• Delaire O, Kresch M, Muñoz JA, Lucas MS, Lin JYY, Fultz B. Electron-phonon interactions and high-temperature thermodynamics of vanadium and its alloys. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2008 Jun 25;77(21).
• Kresch M, Lucas M, Delaire O, Lin JYY, Fultz B. Phonons in aluminum at high temperatures studied by inelastic neutron scattering. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2008 Jan 3;77(2).
• Kresch M, Delaire O, Stevens R, Lin JYY, Fultz B. Neutron scattering measurements of phonons in nickel at elevated temperatures. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2007 Mar 9;75(10).
• Delaire O, Fultz B. Charge redistribution and phonon entropy of vanadium alloys. Physical review letters. 2006 Dec;97(24):245701.
• Delaire O, Kresch M, Fultz B. Entropy of the γ- α martensitic transformation in Fe 71Ni29. In: Proceedings of an International Conference on Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials 2005. 2005. p. 75–80.
• Delaire O, Swan-Wood T, Fultz B. Vibrational thermodynamics of vanadium and dilute vanadium alloys. In: Proceedings of an International Conference on Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials 2005. 2005. p. 359–74.
• Delaire O, Kresch M, Fultz B. Vibrational entropy of the γ- Martensitic transformation in Fe 71Ni29. Philosophical Magazine. 2005 Oct 21;85(30):3567–83.
• Swan-Wood TL, Delaire O, Fultz B. Vibrational entropy of spinodal decomposition in FeCr. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2005 Jul 1;72(2).
• Delaire O, Kresch M, Miltz B. Entropy of the gamma-alpha martensitic transformation in Fe71Ni29. In: Howe JM, Laughlin DE, Lee JK, Dahmen U, Soffa WA, editors. Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Material 2005, Vol 2. MINERALS, METALS & MATERIALS SOC; 2005. p. 75–80.
• Yue AF, Papandrew AB, Delaire O, Fultz B, Chowdhuri Z, Dimeo RM, et al. Vibrations of micro-eV energies in nanocrystalline microstructures. Physical review letters. 2004 Nov;93(20):205501.
• Delaire O, Swan-Wood T, Fultz B. Negative entropy of mixing for vanadium-platinum solutions. Physical review letters. 2004 Oct;93(18):185704.
• Manley ME, McQueeney RJ, Fultz B, Swan-Wood T, Delaire O, Goremychkin EA, et al. The importance of high temperature electron-phonon coupling to the thermodynamic properties of Ce0.9Th0.1 and other f-electron bonded metals. In: Soderholm L, Joyce JJ, Nicol MF, Shuh DK, Tobin JG, editors. ACTINIDES-BASIC SCIENCE, APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY. MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY; 2004. p. 47–52.
• Yilmazbayhan A, Delaire O, Motta AT, Birtcher RC, Maser JM, Lai B. Determination of the alloying content in the matrix of Zr alloys using synchrotron radiation microprobe X-ray fluorescence. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 2003 Sep 15;321(2–3):221–32.
• Manley ME, McQueeney RJ, Fultz B, Swan-Wood T, Delaire O, Goremychkin EA, et al. No role for phonon entropy in the fcc-fcc volume collapse transition in Ce0.9Th0.1 at ambient pressure. Physical Review B. 2003 Jan;67(1).
• Motta AT, Erwin KT, Delaire O, Birtcher RC, Chu Y, Maser J, et al. Synchrotron radiation study of secondphase particles and alloying elements in zirconium alloys. In: ASTM Special Technical Publication. 2002. p. 59–77.
• Erwin KT, Delaire O, Motta AT, Chu YS, Mancini DC, Birtcher RC. Observation of second-phase particles in bulk zirconium alloys using synchrotron radiation. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 2001 Apr 1;294(3):299–304.

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