Daniel Haskel

Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave
431/E004
Argonne, Il 60439

Phone: 252-7758

Fax: 252-7392

E-Mail: haskel@aps.anl.gov

Education/Experience:

• University of Washington, Department of Physics, Seattle, WA; PhD in Physics, 1998
• Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, Israel; M. Sc. in Physics, 1992; B.A. in Physics, 1989

• 2005 - present:   Physicist, Experimental Facilities Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 2001-2005:   Assistant Physicist, Experimental Facilities Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 1999-2001:   Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL.
• 1998-1999:   Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington.

Research Interests:

• X-ray spectroscopy of magnetic materials in absorption and diffraction channels.
• Interfacial magnetism, Interplay between structure and magnetism, local structure, element-and site-specific probes.
• X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, x-ray absorption fine structure, x-ray resonant magnetic scattering.

Selected Publications:

1. D. Haskel, Y.B. Lee, B.N. Harmon, Z. Islam, J.C. Lang, G. Srajer, Ya. Mudryk, K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., and V.K. Pecharsky,"Role of Ge in Bridging Ferromagnetism in the Giant Magnetocaloric Gd₅(Ge_1-xSi _x)₄ Alloys" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247205 (2007) .
2. D. Haskel, J. Lang, Z. Islam, A. Cady, G. Srajer, M. van Veenendaal, P. Canfield, Atomic Origin of Magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Nd₂Fe₁₄B, Phys. Rev. Lett.  95, 217207 (2005).
3. D. Haskel, Z. Islam, J. Lang, C. Kmety, G. Srajer, K. Pokhodnya, A. Epstein, J. Miller, Local structural order in the disordered Vanadium tetracyanoethylene room-temperature molecule-based magnet Phys. Rev. B 70, 054422 (2004).
4. D. Haskel, G. Srajer, Y. Choi, D.R. Lee, J. C. Lang, J. Meersschaut, J.S. Jiang, S.D. Bader, Nature of inhomogeneous magnetic state in artificial Fe/Gd ferromagnetic multilayers, Physical Review B (Rapid Communications) 67, 180406(R) (2003).  
5. D. Haskel, G. Srajer, J. Lang, J.Pollmann, C. Nelson, J. Jiang, S. Bader, Enhanced Interfacial Magnetic Coupling of Gd/Fe Multilayers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 207201 (2001).
6. D. Haskel, E. A. Stern, F. Dogan and A. Moodenbaugh, XAFS study of the low-temperature tetragonal phase of La(2-x)Ba(x)CuO(4): Disorder, stripes and Tc suppression at x=0.125.Phys. Rev. B 61, 7055 (2000).
7. D. Haskel, E. A. Stern, D. G. Hinks, A. W. Mitchell and J. Jorgensen, Altered Sr environment in La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4,Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 56, R521 (1997).
8. D. Haskel, E. A. Stern, D. G. Hinks, A. W. Mitchell, J. Jorgensen and J. Budnick, Dopant and temperature induced phase transitions in LaSrCuO by XAFS,Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 439 (1996).