By Dr Andrew Breen

Journal articles

He M; Davids WJ; Breen AJ; Ringer SP, 2024, 'Quantifying short-range order using atom probe tomography', Nature Materials, 23, pp. 1200 - 1207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01912-1

Haghdadi N; Breen AJ; Chen H; Theska F; Davids WJ; Liao XZ; Rohrer GS; Ringer SP; Primig S, 2024, 'New insights into the character of austenite-ferrite boundaries in an additively manufactured duplex stainless steel', Scripta Materialia, 245, pp. 116049, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116049

Tegg L; Breen AJ; Huang S; Sato T; Ringer SP; Cairney JM, 2023, 'Characterising the performance of an ultrawide field-of-view 3D atom probe', Ultramicroscopy, 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2023.113826

Lim B; Nomoto K; Clarke AJ; Babu SS; Primig S; Liao X; Breen AJ; Ringer SP, 2023, 'On the interplay of internal voids, mechanical properties, and residual stresses in additively manufactured Haynes 282', Additive Manufacturing, 75, pp. 103749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2023.103749

Mayweg D; Eriksson J; Bäcke O; Breen AJ; Thuvander M, 2023, 'Focused Ion Beam induced hydride formation does not affect Fe, Ni, Cr-clusters in irradiated Zircaloy-2', Journal of Nuclear Materials, 581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2023.154444

Breen AJ; Day AC; Lim B; Davids WJ; Ringer SP, 2023, 'Revealing latent pole and zone line information in atom probe detector maps using crystallographically correlated metrics', Ultramicroscopy, 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113640

Li J; Zhou X; Breen A; Peng Z; Su J; Kürnsteiner P; Correa MJD; Chwałek ML; Wang H; Holec D; Mayer J; Dehm G, 2022, 'Elucidation of formation and transformation mechanisms of Ca-rich Laves phase in Mg-Al-Ca-Mn alloys', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 928, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.167177

Wang H; Chao Q; Cui XY; Chen ZB; Breen AJ; Cabral M; Haghdadi N; Huang QW; Niu RM; Chen HS; Lim B; Primig S; Brandt M; Xu W; Ringer SP; Liao XZ, 2022, 'Introducing C phase in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V: A new oxygen-stabilized face-centred cubic solid solution with improved mechanical properties', Materials Today, 61, pp. 11 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2022.10.026

Lim B; Chen H; Nomoto K; Chen Z; Saville AI; Vogel S; Clarke AJ; Paradowska A; Reid M; Primig S; Liao X; Babu SS; Breen AJ; Ringer SP, 2022, 'Additively manufactured Haynes-282 monoliths containing thin wall struts of varying thicknesses', Additive Manufacturing, 59, pp. 103120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103120

Day AC; Breen AJ; Reinhard DA; Kelly TF; Ringer SP, 2022, 'Exploration of atom probe tomography at sub-10K', Ultramicroscopy, 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113595

Jones ME; London AJ; Breen AJ; Styman PD; Sikotra S; Moody MP; Haley D, 2022, 'Improving the Quantification of Deuterium in Zirconium Alloy Atom Probe Tomography Data Using Existing Analysis Methods', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 28, pp. 1245 - 1254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927621012848

Breen AJ; Theska F; Lim B; Primig S; Ringer SP, 2022, 'Advanced quantification of the site-occupancy in ordered multi-component intermetallics using atom probe tomography', Intermetallics, 145, pp. 107538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2022.107538

Poplawsky JD; Pillai R; Ren QQ; Breen AJ; Gault B; Brady MP, 2022, 'Measuring oxygen solubility in Ni grains and boundaries after oxidation using atom probe tomography', Scripta Materialia, 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114411

Nomoto K; Cui XY; Breen A; Ceguerra AV; Perez-Wurfl I; Conibeer G; Ringer SP, 2022, 'Effects of thermal annealing on the distribution of boron and phosphorus in p-i-n structured silicon nanocrystals embedded in silicon dioxide', Nanotechnology, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac38e6

Lim B; Chen H; Chen Z; Haghdadi N; Liao X; Primig S; Babu SS; Breen AJ; Ringer SP, 2021, 'Microstructure-property gradients in Ni-based superalloy (Inconel 738) additively manufactured via electron beam powder bed fusion', Additive Manufacturing, 46, pp. 102121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102121

Davids WJ; Chen H; Nomoto K; Wang H; Babu S; Primig S; Liao X; Breen A; Ringer SP, 2021, 'Phase transformation pathways in Ti-6Al-4V manufactured via electron beam powder bed fusion', Acta Materialia, 215, pp. 117131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117131

Day AC; Breen AJ; Ringer SP, 2021, 'A Crystallography-Mediated Reconstruction (CMR) Approach for Atom Probe Tomography: Solution for a Singleton Pole', Ultramicroscopy, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2021.113262

Ceguerra AV; Breen AJ; Cairney JM; Ringer SP; Gorman BP, 2021, 'Integrative Atom Probe Tomography Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy-Centric Atom Placement as a Step Toward Atomic-Scale Tomography', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27, pp. 140 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927620024873

Kuehbach M; Kasemer M; Gault B; Breen A, 2021, 'Open and strong-scaling tools for atom-probe crystallography: high-throughput methods for indexing crystal structure and orientation', JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 54, pp. 1490 - +, http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600576721008578

Sohn SS; Kim DG; Jo YH; da Silva AK; Lu W; Breen AJ; Gault B; Ponge D, 2020, 'High-rate superplasticity in an equiatomic medium-entropy VCoNi alloy enabled through dynamic recrystallization of a duplex microstructure of ordered phases', Acta Materialia, 194, pp. 106 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.03.048

Breen AJ; Stephenson LT; Sun B; Li Y; Kasian O; Raabe D; Herbig M; Gault B, 2020, 'Solute hydrogen and deuterium observed at the near atomic scale in high-strength steel', Acta Materialia, 188, pp. 108 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.02.004

Wei Y; Peng Z; Kühbach M; Breen A; Legros M; Larranaga M; Mompiou F; Gault B, 2019, '3D nanostructural characterisation of grain boundaries in atom probe data utilising machine learning methods', PLoS ONE, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225041

Theska F; Ceguerra AV; Turk C; Breen AJ; Ringer SP; Primig S, 2019, 'Correlative study of lattice imperfections in long-range ordered, nano-scale domains in a Fe-Co-Mo alloy', Ultramicroscopy, 204, pp. 91 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.05.005

Balachandran S; Orava J; Köhler M; Breen AJ; Kaban I; Raabe D; Herbig M, 2019, 'Elemental re-distribution inside shear bands revealed by correlative atom-probe tomography and electron microscopy in a deformed metallic glass', Scripta Materialia, 168, pp. 14 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.04.014

Yan F; Mouton I; Stephenson LT; Breen AJ; Chang Y; Ponge D; Raabe D; Gault B, 2019, 'Atomic-scale investigation of hydrogen distribution in a Ti–Mo alloy', Scripta Materialia, 162, pp. 321 - 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.11.040

Breen AJ; Li Y; Stephenson L; Gault B; Herbig M, 2019, 'Direct Observation of Hydrogen in Cold-Drawn Pearlitic Steel Wires Using Cryogenic Atom Probe Tomography', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 25, pp. 2522 - 2523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1431927619013345

Gault B; Breen AJ; Chang Y; He J; Jägle EA; Kontis P; Kürnsteiner P; Kwiatkowski Da Silva A; Makineni SK; Mouton I; Peng Z; Ponge D; Schwarz T; Stephenson LT; Szczepaniak A; Zhao H; Raabe D, 2018, 'Interfaces and defect composition at the near-atomic scale through atom probe tomography investigations', Journal of Materials Research, 33, pp. 4018 - 4030, http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.375

Kwiatkowski Da Silva A; Ponge D; Peng Z; Inden G; Lu Y; Breen A; Gault B; Raabe D, 2018, 'Phase nucleation through confined spinodal fluctuations at crystal defects evidenced in Fe-Mn alloys', Nature Communications, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03591-4

Stephenson LT; Szczepaniak A; Mouton I; Rusitzka KAK; Breen AJ; Tezins U; Sturm A; Vogel D; Chang Y; Kontis P; Rosenthal A; Shepard JD; Maier U; Kelly TF; Raabe D; Gault B, 2018, 'The LaplacE project: An integrated suite for preparing and transferring atom probe samples under cryogenic and UHV conditions', PLoS ONE, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209211

Breen AJ; Mouton I; Lu W; Wang S; Szczepaniak A; Kontis P; Stephenson LT; Chang Y; da Silva AK; Liebscher CH; Raabe D; Britton TB; Herbig M; Gault B, 2018, 'Atomic scale analysis of grain boundary deuteride growth front in Zircaloy-4', Scripta Materialia, 156, pp. 42 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.06.044

Wei Y; Gault B; Varanasi RS; Raabe D; Herbig M; Breen AJ, 2018, 'Machine-learning-based atom probe crystallographic analysis', Ultramicroscopy, 194, pp. 15 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2018.06.017

Wallace ND; Ceguerra AV; Breen AJ; Ringer SP, 2018, 'On the retrieval of crystallographic information from atom probe microscopy data via signal mapping from the detector coordinate space', Ultramicroscopy, 189, pp. 65 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2018.02.006

Chang Y; Breen AJ; Tarzimoghadam Z; Kürnsteiner P; Gardner H; Ackerman A; Radecka A; Bagot PAJ; Lu W; Li T; Jägle EA; Herbig M; Stephenson LT; Moody MP; Rugg D; Dye D; Ponge D; Raabe D; Gault B, 2018, 'Characterizing solute hydrogen and hydrides in pure and alloyed titanium at the atomic scale', Acta Materialia, 150, pp. 273 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.02.064

Chen P; Wang GD; Ceguerra AV; Breen AJ; Ringer SP; Xiong XC; Lu Q; Wang JF; Yi HL, 2018, 'Yield Strength Enhancement by Carbon Trapping in Ferrite of the Quenching and Partitioning Steel', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 49, pp. 235 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11661-017-4364-7

Nomoto K; Yang TCJ; Ceguerra AV; Zhang T; Lin Z; Breen A; Wu L; Puthen-Veettil B; Jia X; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Ringer SP, 2017, 'Microstructure analysis of silicon nanocrystals formed from silicon rich oxide with high excess silicon: Annealing and doping effects', Journal of Applied Physics, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4990983

Gault B; Cui XY; Moody MP; Ceguerra AV; Breen AJ; Marceau RKW; Ringer SP, 2017, 'A nexus between 3D atomistic data hybrids derived from atom probe microscopy and computational materials science: A new analysis of solute clustering in Al-alloys', Scripta Materialia, 131, pp. 93 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.01.011

Breen AJ; Babinsky K; Day AC; Eder K; Oakman CJ; Trimby PW; Primig S; Cairney JM; Ringer SP, 2017, 'Correlating Atom Probe Crystallographic Measurements with Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction Data', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 23, pp. 279 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927616012605

Nomoto K; Hiller D; Gutsch S; Ceguerra AV; Breen A; Zacharias M; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I; Ringer SP, 2017, 'Atom probe tomography of size-controlled phosphorus doped silicon nanocrystals', Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201600376

Nomoto K; Yang TCJ; Ceguerra AV; Breen A; Wu L; Jia X; Zhang T; Puthen-Veettil B; Lin Z; Ringer S; Conibeer G; Perez-Wurfl I, 2016, 'Structural, optical, and electrical properties of silicon nanocrystals fabricated by high silicon content silicon-rich oxide and silicon dioxide bilayers', Applied Physics Express, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/APEX.9.115001

Xie KY; An Q; Sato T; Breen AJ; Ringer SP; Goddard WA; Cairney JM; Hemker KJ, 2016, 'Breaking the icosahedra in boron carbide', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, pp. 12012 - 12016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607980113

Nomoto K; Gutsch S; Ceguerra AV; Breen A; Sugimoto H; Fujii M; Perez-Wurfl I; Ringer SP; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Atom probe tomography of phosphorus- and boron-doped silicon nanocrystals with various compositions of silicon rich oxide — ERRATUM', MRS Communications, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2016.47

Nomoto K; Gutsch S; Ceguerra AV; Breen A; Sugimoto H; Fujii M; Perez-Wurfl I; Ringer SP; Conibeer G, 2016, 'Atom probe tomography of phosphorus- and boron-doped silicon nanocrystals with various compositions of silicon rich oxide', MRS Communications, 6, pp. 283 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2016.37

Nomoto K; Sugimoto H; Breen A; Ceguerra AV; Kanno T; Ringer SP; Wurfl IP; Conibeer G; Fujii M, 2016, 'Atom Probe Tomography Analysis of Boron and/or Phosphorus Distribution in Doped Silicon Nanocrystals', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, pp. 17845 - 17852, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06197

Gao T; Ceguerra A; Breen A; Liu X; Wu Y; Ringer S, 2016, 'Precipitation behaviors of cubic and tetragonal Zr-rich phase in Al-(Si-)Zr alloys', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 674, pp. 125 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.02.236

He MR; Samudrala SK; Kim G; Felfer PJ; Breen AJ; Cairney JM; Gianola DS, 2016, 'Linking stress-driven microstructural evolution in nanocrystalline aluminium with grain boundary doping of oxygen', Nature Communications, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11225

La Fontaine A; Gault B; Breen A; Stephenson L; Ceguerra AV; Yang L; Dinh Nguyen T; Zhang J; Young DJ; Cairney JM; Nguyen T, 2015, 'Interpreting atom probe data from chromium oxide scales', Ultramicroscopy, 159, pp. 354 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.02.005

Breen AJ; Moody MP; Ceguerra AV; Gault B; Araullo-Peters VJ; Ringer SP, 2015, 'Restoring the lattice of Si-based atom probe reconstructions for enhanced information on dopant positioning', Ultramicroscopy, 159, pp. 314 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.05.011

Marceau RKW; Ceguerra AV; Breen AJ; Raabe D; Ringer SP, 2015, 'Quantitative chemical-structure evaluation using atom probe tomography: Short-range order analysis of Fe-Al', Ultramicroscopy, 157, pp. 12 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.05.001

Araullo-Peters VJ; Breen A; Ceguerra AV; Gault B; Ringer SP; Cairney JM, 2015, 'A new systematic framework for crystallographic analysis of atom probe data', Ultramicroscopy, 154, pp. 7 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.02.009

Marceau RKW; Ceguerra AV; Breen AJ; Palm M; Stein F; Ringer SP; Raabe D, 2015, 'Atom probe tomography investigation of heterogeneous short-range ordering in the 'komplex' phase state (K-state) of Fe-18Al (at.%)', Intermetallics, 64, pp. 23 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2015.04.005

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