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X-ray Diffraction Topography (Imaging) of Crystals Grown from Solution: A Short Review (2023)
Journal Article
Tanner, B. K. (2023). X-ray Diffraction Topography (Imaging) of Crystals Grown from Solution: A Short Review. Crystal Growth and Design, 23(4), 3026-3033. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01463

A short review of X-ray topographic studies of crystals grown from solution is presented. The dislocation configurations characteristic of such crystals are described, and Klapper’s explanation in terms of minimization of the elastic energy of a disl... Read More about X-ray Diffraction Topography (Imaging) of Crystals Grown from Solution: A Short Review.

X-ray diffraction imaging of fully packaged n–p–n transistors under accelerated ageing conditions (2022)
Journal Article
Tanner, B. K., Danilewsky, A., & McNally, P. J. (2022). X-ray diffraction imaging of fully packaged n–p–n transistors under accelerated ageing conditions. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 55(5), 1139-1146. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576722007142

X-ray diffraction imaging was used to monitor the local strains that developed around individual n–p–n bipolar transistors within fully encapsulated packages under conditions of extremely high forward bias to simulate accelerated ageing. Die warpage... Read More about X-ray diffraction imaging of fully packaged n–p–n transistors under accelerated ageing conditions.

A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning (2022)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2022). A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning. Weather, 77(7), 232-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4144

We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from England... Read More about A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning.

Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230) (2021)
Journal Article
White, R. C., Gasper, G. E., McLeish, T. C., Tanner, B. K., Harvey, J. S., Sønnesyn, S. O., …Smithson, H. E. (2021). Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230). Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 112(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1086/713724

In his treatise On the Rainbow (De iride), composed nearly four hundred years before the first known telescope, the English polymath Robert Grosseteste identified three striking optical effects: distant objects can be rendered close by; close-by larg... Read More about Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230).

X-ray imaging of silicon die within fully packaged semiconductor devices (2021)
Journal Article
Tanner, B. K., McNally, P. J., & Danilewsky, A. N. (2021). X-ray imaging of silicon die within fully packaged semiconductor devices. Powder Diffraction, 36(2), 78-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/s088571562100021x

X-ray diffraction imaging (XRDI) (topography) measurements of silicon die warpage within fully packaged commercial quad-flat no-lead devices are described. Using synchrotron radiation, it has been shown that the tilt of the lattice planes in the Anal... Read More about X-ray imaging of silicon die within fully packaged semiconductor devices.

‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2020). ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation. Endeavour, 44(4), Article 100750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100750

Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula... Read More about ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation.

The seven liberal arts: Commentary and Analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Thomson, D., & Tanner, B. (2019). The seven liberal arts: Commentary and Analysis. In G. Gasper, C. Panti, T. McLeish, & H. Smithson (Eds.), Knowing and speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the liberal arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the generation of sounds' (448-482). Oxford University Press

In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices (2019)
Journal Article
Tanner, B., Vijayaraghavan, R., Roarty, B., Danilewsky, A., & McNally, P. (2019). In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices. Microelectronics Reliability, 99, 232-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.06.006

The application of X-ray Diffraction Imaging to measure in operando thermal strains at individually powered components within fully packaged LM3046 silicon devices is described. It is shown that as the local strains increase with power dissipated, ab... Read More about In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices.

Direct observation of stress relaxation process in 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layers via in-situ synchrotron X-ray topography (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Guo, J., Yang, Y., Raghothamachar, B., Dudley, M., Welt, S., Danilewsky, A., …Tanner, B. (2018). Direct observation of stress relaxation process in 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layers via in-situ synchrotron X-ray topography. In R. Stahlbush, P. Neudeck, A. Bhalla, R. Devaty, M. Dudley, & A. Lelis (Eds.), Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2017 (176-179). https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.924

In-situ synchrotron X-ray topography observation of double-ended Frank-Read sources in PVT-grown 4H-SiC wafers (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Yang, Y., Guo, J., Raghothamachar, B., Dudley, M., Welt, S., Danilewsky, A., …Tanner, B. (2018). In-situ synchrotron X-ray topography observation of double-ended Frank-Read sources in PVT-grown 4H-SiC wafers. In R. Stahlbush, P. Neudeck, A. Bhalla, R. Devaty, M. Dudley, & A. Lelis (Eds.), Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2017 (172-175). https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.924

Quantitative Imaging of the Stress/Strain Fields and Generation of Macroscopic Cracks from Indents in Silicon (2017)
Journal Article
Tanner, B., Allen, D., Wittge, J., Danilewsky, A., Garagorri, J., Gorostegui-Colinas, E., …McNally, P. (2017). Quantitative Imaging of the Stress/Strain Fields and Generation of Macroscopic Cracks from Indents in Silicon. Crystals, 7(11), Article 347. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7110347

The crack geometry and associated strain field around Berkovich and Vickers indents on silicon have been studied by X-ray diffraction imaging and micro-Raman spectroscopy scanning. The techniques are complementary; the Raman data come from within a f... Read More about Quantitative Imaging of the Stress/Strain Fields and Generation of Macroscopic Cracks from Indents in Silicon.

Structural and optical properties of oxygen doped single crystal ZnTe grown by multi-tube physical vapour transport (2017)
Journal Article
Mullins, J., Dierre, F., Halliday, D., Tanner, B., Radley, I., Kang, Z., & Summers, C. (2017). Structural and optical properties of oxygen doped single crystal ZnTe grown by multi-tube physical vapour transport. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 28(16), 11950-11960. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-017-7004-5

Bulk single crystals of zinc telluride up to 10 mm thick have been grown by the Multi-Tube Physical Vapour Transport technique and doped, in-situ during growth, with oxygen. Following hetero-epitaxial nucleation and buffer growth on 100 mm diameter G... Read More about Structural and optical properties of oxygen doped single crystal ZnTe grown by multi-tube physical vapour transport.

Nondestructive X-ray diffraction measurement of warpage in silicon dies embedded in integrated circuit packages (2017)
Journal Article
Tanner, B., Danilewsky, A., Vijayaraghavan, R., Cowley, A., & McNally, P. (2017). Nondestructive X-ray diffraction measurement of warpage in silicon dies embedded in integrated circuit packages. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 50(2), 547-554. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576717003132

Transmission X-ray diffraction imaging in both monochromatic and white beam section mode has been used to measure quantitatively the displacement and warpage stress in encapsulated silicon devices. The displacement dependence with position on the die... Read More about Nondestructive X-ray diffraction measurement of warpage in silicon dies embedded in integrated circuit packages.

Bow-shaped Caustics from Conical Prisms: a 13th Century Account of Rainbow Formation from Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (2017)
Journal Article
Harvey, J., Smithson, H., Siviour, C., Gasper, G. E., Sonnesyn, S. O., Tanner, B. K., & McLeish, T. (2017). Bow-shaped Caustics from Conical Prisms: a 13th Century Account of Rainbow Formation from Robert Grosseteste’s De iride. Applied Optics, 56(19), G197-G204. https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.56.00g197

The rainbow has been the subject of discussion across a variety of historical periods and cultures, and numerous optical explanations have been suggested. Here, we further explore the scientific treatise De iride [On the Rainbow] written by Robert Gr... Read More about Bow-shaped Caustics from Conical Prisms: a 13th Century Account of Rainbow Formation from Robert Grosseteste’s De iride.