Argonne National Laboratory
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431/E004
Argonne, Il 60439

Phone: 252-9252

Fax: 252-7392

E-Mail: zahir@aps.anl.gov

Education/Experience

• 2001-present: Assistant Physicist, Experimental Facilities Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 2000-2001: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Experimental Facilities Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 1999-2000: Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

• Iowa State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ames, IA; Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, 1999
• Bemidji State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bemidji, MN; B.S. in Physics, 1993

Research interests

• Competing electronic, magnetic, and orbital phases in oxides such as the cuprates
• Low-temperature phenomena in magnetic fields (e.g. vortex-lattice coupling, metamagnetism, spin-gap materials)
• Magnetic scattering, X-ray diffraction and diffuse scattering
• X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

Selected Publications

1. Z. Islam, X. Liu, S. K. Sinha, J. C. Lang, S. C. Moss, D. Haskel, D. R. Lee, G. Srajer, P. Wochner, D. R. Lee, D. R. Haeffner, U. Welp et al. A 4-unit-cell superstructure in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O6.93 superconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 157008 (2004).
2. D. de Fontaine, V. Ozolins, Z. Islam, and S. C. Moss, On the origin of modulated structures in YBa2Cu3O6.63: a First-Principles Approach, Phys. Rev. B 71, 212504 (2005).
3. Z. Islam, C. Detlefs, C. Song, A. I. Goldman, V. Antropov, B. N. Harmon, S. L. Bud'ko, T. Wiener, P. C. Canfield, D. Wermeille, and K. D. Finkelstein, Effects of band filling on magnetic structures: The case of RNi2Ge2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2817 (1999).
4. Z. Islam, D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, X. Liu, S. K. Sinha, and B. W. Veal. “High-resolution polarization studies of long-range magnetic order in cuprates,” Phys. Rev. B 71, 212506 (2005)
5. Z. Islam, I. R. Fisher, J. Zarestky, P. C. Canfield, C. Stassis, and A. I. Goldman. "Reinvestigation of long-range magnetic ordering in icosahedral Tb-Mg-Zn," Phys. Rev. B 57, Rapid Communications, R11047 (1998).
6. M. Z. Hasan, P. A. Montano, E. D. Isaacs, Z.-X. Shen, S. K. Sinha, H. Eisaki, Z. Islam, N. Motoyama, and S. Uchida. " Momentum-resolved charge excitations in a prototype one dimensional Mott insulator," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 177403 (2002).
7. Z. Islam, C. Detlefs, A. I. Goldman, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, J. P. Hill, Doon Gibbs,  T. Vogt, and A. Zheludev. Neutron diffraction and x-ray resonant exchange scattering studies of the zero-field magnetic structures of TbNi2Ge2, Phys. Rev. B 58, 8522 (1998)