Chemical Sciences Division/The Glenn T. Seaborg Center e-mail:
chbooth@lbl.gov

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory voice: (510)486-6079

MS 70A-1150 FAX: (510)486-5596

Berkeley, CA 94720 home: (510)527-9416

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# Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Dec. 1996

Thesis: Local structural distortions and disorder in advanced perovskite
materials

Advisor: Prof. Frank Bridges

B.Sc. in Physics, minor in art history, University of California, San
Diego, 1989

# Research interests

My primary expertise is in using synchrotron radiation to measure a
material\'s local structure and relate it to electronic, chemical and
mechanical properties by analyzing the x-ray-absorption fine-structure
(XAFS) and pair-distribution function analysis of x-ray and neutron
diffraction data (PDF). This interest has lead to studies in colossal
magnetoresistance, Kondo, heavy fermions, mixed valence system,
non-Fermi liquids, and spin-glasses, focusing on materials with
*f*-electron interactions. Besides electronic materials, I am also
interested in studies of mechanically glassy materials, especially those
that may be suitable for storage of high level radioactive wastes.

# Employment

Principal Investigator Chemical Sciences Division Jan. 2000-present

The Glenn T. Seaborg Center

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Staff Scientist Chemical Sciences Division Aug. 1999- present

The Glenn T. Seaborg Center

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Postdoctoral Associate UC Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL),

stationed at LANL, with Prof. Jon Lawrence and

Dr. George Kwei June 1997-July 1999

Postdoctoral Associate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Feb.
1997-May 1997

with Dr. David K. Shuh

Research Assistant UC Santa Cruz with Prof. Frank Bridges 1994-1996

Teaching Assistant UC Santa Cruz Physics Department 1990-1995

Laboratory Assistant UC San Diego with Dr. Andrew Buffington 1987-1990

# Professional Services

*Chair*, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Users' Executive
Committee, Oct. 2001-present. Member of committee since Oct. 1999.

*Co-Chair*, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory User Meeting, Oct.
2001

*Computer Security Liason*, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory, July 2001-present

# Awards and Honors

International Union of Crystallography Young Scientist Award, 2000

# Current programmatic responsibilities

I am in charge of the x-ray absorption measurement program at the Glenn
T. Seaborg Center (GTSC). My responsibilities include coordinating
beamtime between the principal investigators in the GTSC, educating
students and postdocs about x-ray absorption techniques (EXAFS, XANES)
and assisting in data analysis. GTSC projects include measuring the
structures of uranium and plutonium with bacteria and manganese mineral
complexes, the structures of sodium-aluminum silicate glasses, and
uranium phosphate glasses, etc., in addition to my own research. There
are six PI's in the GTSC that are currently involved in x-ray absorption
experiments.

# Teaching experience

Besides the TA experience listed above, I helped supervised several
undergraduate students in their senior thesis project at UCSC. Two of
these students won the Dean's and the Chancellor's Award as the
outstanding thesis for their respective years.

My TA experience at UCSC includes teaching an E&M discussion section,
but mostly focused on the upper division physics lab. This lab class was
unique and demanding of the TA's because it covered a large number of
classic experiments, including the Compton effect, x-ray diffraction,
x-ray fluorescence, Mössbauer, Millikan oil drop, and many others.

# **PUBLICATIONS**

1.  A. Buffington, H. S. Hudson, and **C. H. Booth**. A laboratory
    measurement of CCD photometric and dimensional stability. Pub. Astr.
    Soc. Pac., 652:688, 1990.

2.  A. Buffington, **C. H. Booth**, and H. S. Hudson. Using image area
    to control CCD systematic errors in spaceborne photometric and
    astrometric time-series measurements. Pub. Astr. Soc. Pac., 665:685,
    1991.

3.  **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, J. B. Boyce, T. Claeson, Z. X. Zhao,
    and P. Cervantes. Local disorder in the oxygen environment around
    praseodymium in Y~1-x~Pr~x~Ba~2~Cu~3~O~7~. Mat. Rec. Soc. Symp.
    Proc., 307:117, 1993.

4.  C.-H. Park, B. O. Wells, J. DiCarlo, Z. X. Shen, J. R. Salem, D. S.
    Bethune, C. S. Yannoni, R. D. Johnson, M. S. de Vries, **C. H.
    Booth**, F. Bridges, and P. Pianetta. Structural determination on Y
    ions in C~82~ from EXAFS experiments. Chem. Phys. Lett., 213:196,
    1993.

5.  J. J. Rehr, **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, and S. I. Zabinsky.
    X-ray-absorption fine-structure in embedded atoms. Phys. Rev. B
    (Rapid Comm.), 49:12347, 1994.

6.  **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, J. B. Boyce, T. Claeson, Z. X. Zhao,
    and P. Cervantes. Local disorder in the oxygen environment around
    praseodymium in Y~1-x~Pr~x~Ba~2~Cu~3~O~7~. Phys. Rev. B, 49:3432,
    1994.

7.  F. Bridges, G. G. Li, and **C. H. Booth**. Large local distortions
    introduced by defects in YBa~2~Cu~3~O~7~ superconductor: an x-ray
    absorption study. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 137:351,
    1995.

8.  F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, and G. G. Li. An iterative approach to
    atomic background removal in XAFS data analysis. Physica B (Proc.
    from XAFS VIII), 208&209:121, 1995.

9.  G. G. Li, F. Bridges, and **C. H. Booth**. XAFS standards: a
    comparison of experiments and theory. Phys. Rev. B, 52:6332, 1995.

10. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, E. D. Bauer, G. G. Li, J. B. Boyce, T.
    Claeson, C. H. Chu, and Q. Xiong. XAFS measurements of negatively
    correlated atomic displacements in HgBa~2~CuO~4+δ~. Phys. Rev. B
    (Rapid Comm.), 52:R15745, 1995.

11. J. J. Rehr, **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, and S. I. Zabinsky.
    X-ray-absorption fine-structure in embedded atoms: Reply. Phys. Rev.
    B, 53:9468, 1996.

12. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, J. Boyce, T. Claeson, B. M. Lairson, R.
    Liang, and D. A. Bonn. Comparison of local structure measurements
    from *c*-axis polarized XAFS between a film and a single crystal of
    YBa~2~Cu~3~O~7-δ~ as a function of temperature. Phys. Rev. B,
    54:9542, 1996.

13. F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, G. G. Li, E. D. Bauer, J. B. Boyce
    and T. Claeson. Does the local structure play a role in high
    temperature superconductivity? Superlattices and Microstructures,
    19:313, 1996.

14. E. D. Bauer, F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, J. B. Boyce, T.
    Claeson, G. Brorsson and Y. Suzuki. Local-structure study about Co
    in YBa~2~(Cu~1-*x*~Co*~x~*)~3~O~7-δ~ thin-films using polarized
    XAFS. Phys. Rev. B, 54:13352, 1996.

15. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, G. J. Snyder, and T. H. Geballe.
    Evidence of magnetization-dependent polaron distortion in
    La~1-x~A~x~MnO~3~, A=Ca, Pb. Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.), 54:R15606,
    1996.

16. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, Z. Kvitky, L. Romano, F. Ponce.
    Environment about Indium in Ga~1-x~In~x~N from In and Ga K-edge
    XAFS. J. de Phys. IV (Proc. from XAFS IX), 7(#C2/pt.2):1253, 1997.

17. G. K. Marasinghe, M. Karabulut, C. S. Ray, D. E. Day, M. G.
    Shumsky, W. B. Yelon, **C. H. Booth**, P. G. Allen, and D. K. Shuh.
    Structural features of iron phosphate glasses. J. Non-Cryst. Solids
    222:144, 1997. LBNL-41363

18. F. Bridges, E. D. Bauer, **C. H. Booth**, Z. Kvitky, Z.
    Trajanovic, I. Takeuchi, C. J. Lobb, T. Venkatesan, Local-structure
    study about Co in *a*-axis films of
    YBa~2~(Cu~0.93~Co~0.07~)~3~O~7-δ~ using polarized XAFS. J. de Phys.
    IV (Proc. from XAFS IX), 7(#C2/pt.2):1093, 1997.

19. G. H. Kwei, **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, and M. A. Subramanian.
    Single valence and structural disorder in the CMR pyrochlore
    Tl~2~Mn~2~O~7~. Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.), 55:R688, 1997.

20. G. J. Snyder, **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, R. Hiskes, S.
    DiCarolis, M. R. Beasley and T. H. Geballe. Local structure,
    transport and rare earth magnetism in the ferrimagnetic perovskite
    Gd~0.66~Ca~0.33~MnO~3~. Phys. Rev. B, 55, 6453, 1997.

21. A. L. Cornelius, J. M. Lawrence, J. L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, M. F.
    Hundley, G. H. Kwei, J. D. Thompson, **C. H. Booth**, and F.
    Bridges. Experimental studies of the phase-transition in
    YbIn~1-x~Ag~x~Cu~4~. Phys. Rev. B 56:7993, 1997.

22. R. H. Heffner, M. F. Hundley, and **C. H. Booth**. Effects of
    localized holes on charge transport, local structure and spin
    dynamics in the metallic state of CMR La~1‑*x*~Ca*~x~*MnO~3~. Mat.
    Rec. Soc. Symp. Proc., 494:275, 1998.

23. G. K. Marasinghe, M. Karabulut, C. S. Ray, D. E. Day, **C. H.
    Booth**, P. G. Allen, and D. K. Shuh. Redox characteristics and
    structural properties of iron phosphate glasses: a potential host
    matrix for vitrifying high level nuclear waste. In *Environmental
    Issues and Waste Management Technologies in Ceramic and Nuclear
    Industries IV, Ceramic Transactions* 87:261, 1998. LBNL-41426

24. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, G. H. Kwei, J. M. Lawrence, A. L.
    Cornelius, and J. J. Neumeier. Direct relationship between magnetism
    and MnO~6~ distortions in La~1-*x*~Ca*~x~*MnO~3~. Phys. Rev. Lett.,
    80:853, 1998.

25. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, G. H. Kwei, J. M. Lawrence, A. L.
    Cornelius, and J. J. Neumeier. Lattice effects in
    La~1‑*x*~Ca*~x~*MnO~3~ (x=0→1): Relationship between distortions,
    charge distribution, and magnetism. Phys. Rev. B., 57:10440, 1998.

26. J. Z. Ren, G. A. Rose, R. S. Williams, **C. H. Booth**, D. K.
    Shuh, P. G. Allen, J. J. Bucher, and N. M. Edelstein. Microstructure
    and phase transitions in disordered Ti~1-x~Ga~x~N thin films grown
    by pulsed laser deposition. J. Appl. Phys. 83:7613, 1998. LBNL-46197

27. **C. H. Booth**, D. E. MacLaughlin, R. H. Heffner, R. Chau, M. B.
    Maple and G. H. Kwei. Pd/Cu site interchange and non-Fermi-liquid
    behavior in UCu~4~Pd. Phys. Rev. Lett., 81:3960, 1998.

28. J. L. Sarrao, C. D. Immer, Z. Fisk, **C. H. Booth**, E.
    Figueroa, J. M. Lawrence, R. Modler, A. L. Cornelius, M. F.
    Hundley, G. H. Kwei, J. D. Thompson, and F. Bridges. Physical
    properties of YbXCu~4~ (X=Ag, Au, Cd, Mg, Tl, Zn) compounds. Phys.
    Rev. B 59:6855, 1999.

29. A. L. Cornelius, A. J. Arko, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, M. F.
    Hundley, **C. H. Booth**, N. Harrison, and P. M. Oppeneer.
    Electronic properties of UX~3~ (X=Ga, Al, and Sn) compounds in high
    magnetic fields: Transport, specific heat, magnetization and quantum
    oscillations. Phys. Rev. B 59:14473, 1999.

30. **C. H. Booth**, E. Figueroa, J. M. Lawrence, M. F. Hundley,
    and J. D. Thompson. The effect of magnetic fields on the
    metal-insulator transition in BaVS~3~. Phys. Rev. B, 60:14852
    (1999).

31. **C. H. Booth**, P. G. Allen, J. J. Bucher, N. M. Edelstein, D. K.
    Shuh, G. K. Marasighe, M. Karabulut, C. S. Ray, and D. E. Day.
    Oxygen and Phosphorus Coordination Around Iron in Iron-Phosphate
    Glasses with UO~2~ or Na~2~O and Crystalline Ferric Ferrous
    Pyrophosphate. J. Mater. Res., 14:2628, 1999. LBNL-42204

32. F. Bridges, M. Anderson D. Cao, and M. Anderson, **C. H.
    Booth**, J. J. Neumeier and G. J. Snyder. Temperature/Magnetization
    induced distortions in the local structure of substituted
    LaMnO~3~. J. Synchrotron Rad. (Proc. from XAFS X), 6:543, 1999.

33. D. Cao, F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, and D. Worledge. The effect of
    the annealing temperature on the local distortions of
    La~0.67~Ca~0.33~MnO~3~ thin films. J. Synchrotron Rad. (Proc. from
    XAFS X), 6:682, 1999.

34. **C. H. Booth**, F. Bridges, J. J. Neumeier, E. L. Brosha, T. H.
    Geballe, G. J. Snyder and G. H. Kwei. Effects of Magnetization on
    Hole Localization and MnO~6~ Octahedra Disorder in Hole-Doped
    Lanthanum Manganese Perovskites. J. Superconductivity (Proc. from
    Euroconference on Polarons: Pairing, Magnetism, Erice-Sicily, June
    1998), 12:295, 1999.

35. F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, G. H. Kwei, J. J. Neumeier, and G. A.
    Sawatzky. Temperature dependent changes of the Mn 3d and 4p bands
    near T~C~ in colossal magnetoresistive systems: a XANES study of
    La~1-x~Ca~x~MnO~3~. Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.), 61:R9237, 2000.

36. D. Cao, F. Bridges, D. C. Worledge, **C. H. Booth**, T. Geballe. The
    effect of the annealing temperature on the local distortion of
    La~0.67~Ca~0.33~MnO~3~ thin films. Phys. Rev. B. 61:11373, 2000.

37. **C. H. Booth**, J. S. Gardner, G. H. Kwei, R. H. Heffner, F.
    Bridges, and M. A. Subramanian. Lattice disorder in the
    geometrically-frustrated spin glass pyrochlore Y~2~Mo~2~O~7~. Phys.
    Rev. B: Rapid Comm., 62:R755 (2000). LBNL-44361

38. D. Cao, F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, and J. J. Neumeier. Changes in
    the local structure of a La~0.70~Ca~0.30~MnO~3~ CMR sample induced
    by a magnetic field. Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.), 62:R8954, 2000.

39. M. Karabulut, G. K. Marasinghe, C. S. Ray, D. E. Day, G. D.
    Waddill, P. G. Allen, **C. H. Booth**, J. J. Bucher, D. L.
    Caulder, D. K. Shuh, and M. Grimsditch. Local environment of the
    iron and uranium ions in vitrified iron phosphate glasses studied by
    Fe K and U L~III~-edge X-ray absorption fine structure
    spectroscopy. J. Mater. Res., 15:1972, 2000. LBNL-45213

40. **C. H. Booth**, E. D. Bauer, M. B. Maple, J. M. Lawrence, G. H.
    Kwei, and J. L. Sarrao. Lattice disorder in strongly correlated
    lanthanide and actinide intermetallics. J. Synchrotron Rad. (Proc.
    from XAFS XI), 8:191, 2000. LBNL-47279

41. J. M. Lawrence, P. S. Riseborough, **C. H. Booth**, J. L.
    Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and R. Osborn. Slow Crossover in Yb*X*Cu~4~
    Intermediate Valence Compounds. Phys. Rev. B, 63:054227, 2001.
    LBNL-46027

42. F. Bridges, **C. H. Booth**, M. Anderson, G. H. Kwei, J. J.
    Neumeier,, J. Snyder, J. Mitchell, and J. S. Gardner. Mn *K*-edge
    XANES studies of the La~1-x~A~x~MnO~3~ systems (A=Ca, Ba, Pb). Phys.
    Rev. B, 63:214405, 2001.

43. **C. H. Booth**, J. L. Sarrao, M. F. Hundley, A. L. Cornelius, G. H.
    Kwei, A. Bianchi, Z. Fisk, and J. M. Lawrence. Local and average
    crystal structure and displacements of La^11^B~6~ and EuB~6~ as a
    function of temperature. Phys. Rev. B., 63:224302, 2001. LBNL-47280

44. D. Cao, F. Bridges, M. Anderson, A. P. Ramirez, M. Olapinski, M. A.
    Subramanian, **C. H. Booth**, and G. H. Kwei. Local distortions in
    La~0.7~Ca~0.3~Mn~1-b~A~b~O~3~ (A=Ti and Ga) colossal
    magnetoresistance samples: Correlations with magnetization and
    evidence for cluster formation. Phys. Rev. B, 64:184409, 2001.

45. F. Bridges, D. Cao, M. Anderson, A. P. Ramirez, M. Olapinski, M .A.
    Subramanian, **C. H. Booth**, and G. H. Kwei. Changes of the local
    distortions and colossal magnetoresistive properties of
    La~0.7~Ca~0.3~MnO~3~ induced by Ti or Ga defects. Radiation Effects
    and Defects in Solids (14th International Conference on Defects in
    Insulating Materials, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-7 April 2000),
    155:37, 2001. LBNL-50907

46. B. P. McGrail, J. P. Icenhower, D. K. Shuh, P Liu, J. G.
    Darab, D. R. Baer, S. Thevuthasen, V. Shutthanandan, M. H.
    Engelhard, **C. H. Booth**, P. Nachimuthu. The structure of
    Na~2~O-Al~2~O~3~-SiO~2~ glass: Impact on sodium ion exchange in
    H~2~O and D~2~O. J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 296:10, 2001. LBNL/ALS-43658

47. P. G. Allen, A. L. Henderson, E. R. Sylwester, P. E. A.
    Turchi, T. H. Shen, G. F. Gallegos, and **C. H. Booth**. Vibrational
    properties of Ga-stabilized δ-Pu by extended x-ray absorption
    fine-structure. Phys. Rev. B, 65:214107, 2002. LBNL-49403

48. E. D. Bauer, **C. H. Booth**, G. H. Kwei, R. Chau, and M. B. Maple.
    Effects of lattice disorder in the UCu~5-x~Pd~x~ system. Phys. Rev.
    B, 65:245114, 2002. LBNL-49402

49. A. L. Cornelius, J. M. Lawrence, T. Ebihara, P. S. Riseborough,
    **C. H. Booth**, M. F. Hundley, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, J. D.
    Thompson, M .H. Jung, A. H. Lacerda, and G. H. Kwei. Two energy
    scales and slow crossover in YbAl~3~. Phys. Rev. Lett.,
    88:117201, 2002. LBNL-49405

50. M. Karabulut, G. K. Marasinghe, C. A. Click, E. Metwalli, R. K.
    Brow, **C. H. Booth**, J. J. Bucher, D. K. Shuh, T. I. Suratwala,
    and J. H. Campbell. XAFS investigation of platinum impurities in
    phosphate glasses. J. Amer. Cer. Soc., 85:1093, 2002. LBNL-47272

51. M. Karabulut, G. K. Marasinghe, E. Metwalli, A. K. Wittenauer, R. K.
    Brow, **C. H. Booth**, and D. K. Shuh. Neodymium and erbium
    coordination environments in phosphate glasses. Phys. Rev. B,
    65:104206, 2002. LBNL-49424

52. J. M. Lawrence, T. Ebihara, P. S. Riseborough, **C. H.
    Booth**, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson. Two
    energy scales and slow crossover in YbAl~3~. Physica B (Proc. from
    SCES01), 312:324, 2002. LBNL-49404

53. **C. H. Booth**, E. D. Bauer, M. B maple, R. Chau, and G. H. Kwei.
    Pd/Cu site interchange in UCu~5-x~Pd~x~, Physica B (Proc. from
    SCES01), 312:408 (2002). LBNL-48338

54. S. Schmidt, F. Reinert, D. Ehm, G. Nicolay, O. Trovarelli, **C. H.
    Booth**, R. Hauser, and S. Hufner,. High-resolution photoemission
    spectroscopy on intermediate valent Yb-compounds: predictions of the
    Anderson impurity model. Physica B (Proc. from SCES01), 312:675,
    2002.

55. D. A. Shaughnessy, H. Nitsche, **C. H. Booth**, D. K. Shuh, G. A.
    Waychunas, R. E. Wilson, K. J. Cantrell, R. J. Serne. Complexation
    and redox interactions between aqueous plutonium and manganese oxide
    interfaces. Actinides 2001 International Conference, Hayama, Japan,
    3-9 Nov. 2001, in press. LBNL-47777

56. S.-W. Han, **C. H. Booth**, E. D. Bauer, and M. B. Maple.
    Temperature dependent x-ray diffraction study of Pd/Cu site
    interchange in non-Fermi liquid UCu~4~Pd. Acta Phys. Pol. B (Proc.
    from SCES02), submitted. LBNL-50908

57. P. J. Panak, **C. H. Booth**, D. L. Caulder, J. J. Bucher, D. K.
    Shuh, and H. Nitsche. X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
    of plutonium complexes with *bacillus sphaericu*s. Radiochi. Acta
    90:315 (2002). LBNL-49271

**SOLICITED PRESENTATIONS** (does not include department seminars, etc.)

Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, Dec.
1997. Talk entitled: Strongly localized holes in CMR
La~1‑*x*~Ca*~x~*MnO~3~ in the metallic state from resistivity, local
structure and μSR measurements.

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory User's Meeting, Stanford,
California, Oct. 1998. Talk entitled: Pd/Cu site interchange and
non-Fermi-liquid behavior in UCu~4~Pd.

American Physical Society March Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.
Talk entitled: Local structure, hole localization and magnetism in CMR
perovskites.

Frontier-Science Research Conference on Magnetic Oxides, La Jolla,
California, July 1999. Talk entitled: X-ray absorption studies of the
La~1-x~Ca~x~MnO~3~ series.

International Conference on X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure, XAFS XI,
Ako, Japan, July 2000. Talk entitled: Lattice disorder in
strongly-correlated lanthanide and actinide intermetallics.

Physics Department Colloquium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November
2, 2001. Talk entitled: Non-Fermi liquid behavior in *f*-electron
intermetallics: new state of matter or cruel joke?

Graduate course lecture for UC Berkeley's "Nuclear and Environmental
Chemistry" taught by Prof. H. Nitsche, November 29, 2001. Talk entitled:
Principles and fundamentals of x-ray absorption fine structure in
actinides.

Physics Department Colloquium, University of California, Davis January
28, 2002. Talk entitled: Non-Fermi liquid behavior in *f*-electron
intermetallics: new state of matter or cruel joke?

# **CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS** {#contributed-presentations .unnumbered}

American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 22-26,
1992. "Evidence of distortion in the oxygen environment around
praseodymium in Y~1-x~Pr~x~Ba~2~Cu~3~O~7~ from praseodymium K-edge
XAFS." C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, P. Cervantes, J. B. Boyce.

American Physical Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March
21-25, 1994. "AXAFS: X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure in Embedded Atoms."
C.H. Booth, F. Bridges, and J.J. Rehr, S.I. Zabinsky.

American Physical Society Meeting, San Jose, California, March 20-24,
1995. "Distortions in the local structure of HgBa~2~CuO~4~ from XAFS
spectra at the Cu and Ba K-edges, and Hg L~3~-edge." F. Bridges, C. H.
Booth, E. Bauer , T. Claeson, C. W. Chu.

American Physical Society Meeting, San Jose, California, March 20-24,
1995. "Local structure measurements from polarized XAFS on a 5000 Å
c-axis film of YBCO on MgO as a function of temperature." C. H. Booth,
F. Bridges, Z. Kvitky, J. Boyce.

American Physical Society Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, March 17-21,
1997. "Local structure changes near T~c~ in magnetoresistive
La~1-x~A~x~MnO~3~." C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, G. H. Kwei, J. J. Neumeier,
G. J. Snyder, T. H. Geballe.

American Physical Society Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, March 17-21,
1997. "Changes in the local structure about Fe in YBCO with varying O
content," F. Bridges, C. H. Booth, E. D. Bauer, J. B. Boyce, T. Claeson
, P. Boolchand.

American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 16-20,
1998. "Local structural aspects of charge localization in CMR
La~1-x~Ca~x~MnO~3~: Functional relationship between MnO~6~ distortions
and magnetization." C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, G. H. Kwei, J. M. Lawrence,
A. L. Cornelius, J. J. Neumeier.

American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 16-20,
1998. "Magnetically induced changes in the width of the Mn-O bond
pair-distribution function in La~2/3~Ba~1/3~MnO~3~." F. Bridges, C. H.
Booth, T. H. Geballe, G. J. Snyder.

American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 16-20,
1998. "Kondo physics of YbXCu~4~ compounds." J.L. Sarrao, R. Modler,
M.F. Hundley, J.D. Thompson, C.H. Booth, E. Figueroa, A.L. Cornelius,
J.M. Lawrence, C.D. Immer, Z. Fisk.

Euroconference on Polarons: Pairing, Magnetism, Erice-Sicily, June 1998.
"Effects of Magnetization on Hole Localization and MnO~6~ Octahedra
Disorder in Hole-Doped Lanthanum Manganese Perovskites." C. H. Booth, F.
Bridges, J. J. Neumeier, E. L. Brosha, T. H. Geballe, G. J. Snyder and
G. H. Kwei.

American Physical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 16-20, 1999.
"Pd/Cu Site Interchange and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in UCu~4~Pd." C.
H. Booth, D. E. MacLaughlin, R. H. Heffner, R. Chau, M. B. Maple, G. H.
Kwei.

American Physical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 16-20, 1999.
"Electronic properties of UX~3~ (X=Ga, Al and Sn) compounds in high
magnetic fields: Transport, specific heat, magnetization and quantum
oscillations." A. L. Cornelius, A. J. Arko, J. L. Sarrao, J. D.
Thompson, M. F. Hundley, C. H. Booth, N. Harrison, P.M. Oppeneer.

American Physical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 16-20, 1999.
"Investigation of Charge Localization from Near Edge and Preedge Studies
of Substituted Manganites." F. Bridges, M. Anderson, C. H. Booth.

American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 20-24,
2000. "M/Cu Site Interchange in the UCu~5-x~M~x~ (M = Pd, Pt) systems.
G. H. Kwei, E. D. Bauer, C. H. Booth, M. B. Maple.

American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 20-24,
2000. "Thermal vibrations from the local and average crystal structures
of LaB~6~ and EuB~6~." C. H. Booth, G. H. Kwei, J. L. Sarrao, A. L.
Cornelius, Z. Fisk, A. Bianchi, J. M. Lawrence.

American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 20-24,
2000. "Lattice disorder in the geometrically-frustrated spin glass
pyrochlore Y~2~Mo~2~O~7~." J. S. Gardner, C. H. Booth, G. H. Kwei, R. H.
Heffner, F. Bridges, M. A. Subramanian.

American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 20-24,
2000. "A magnetic field induced change of the local distortions in a
La~0.70~Ca~0.30~MnO~3~ CMR sample." D. Cao, F. Bridges, C. H. Booth, J.
Neumeier.

International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials,
Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-7 April 2000. "Changes of the local
distortions and colossal magnetoresistive properties of
La~0.7~Ca~0.3~MnO~3~ induced by Ti or Ga defects." F. Bridges, D. Cao,
M. Anderson, A. P. Ramirez, M. Olapinski, M .A. Subramanian, C. H.
Booth, and G. H. Kwei.

American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington, D.C., August
20-24, 2000. " Interfacial reaction studies of plutonium on manganese
oxide hydroxide mineral surfaces." D. A. Shaughnessy, H. Nitsche, R. J.
Serne, C. H. Booth, D. K. Shuh, G. A. Waychunas, H. S. Gill.

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory User\'s Meeting, Stanford, CA,
October 18-21, 2000. "Extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS)
study of uranyl-carboxylate complexes in solution." J. Jiang, L. Rao, C.
H. Booth.

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory User\'s Meeting, Stanford, CA,
October 18-21, 2000. "Interaction of Pu(VI) on manganese oxide hydroxide
mineral surfaces." D. A. Shaughnessy, H. Nitsche, G. A. Waychunas, C. H.
Booth, R. J. Serne, D. K. Shuh.

American Chemical Society Western Regional Meeting, San Francisco, CA,
October 25-28, 2000. "System-controlling processes in environmental
actinide chemistry." H. Nitsche, P. J. Panak, C. H. Booth, D. K. Shuh.

American Chemical Society Western Regional Meeting, San Francisco, CA,
October 25-28, 2000. "Interfacial reaction studies of plutonium on
manganese oxide hydroxide mineral surfaces." D. A. Shaughnessy, H.
Nitsche, HeinoR. J. Serne, C. H. Booth, D. K. Shuh, G. A. Waychunas, H.
S. Gill.

Heavy Element Contractors Meeting, Argonne, Illinois, Nov. 2000. "Local
coordination effects, *f*-electron bonding and magnetic behavior in
actinide intermetallics." C. H. Booth.

American Chemical Society National Meeting National Meeting, San Diego,
California, April 1-5, 2001. "Interaction of aerobic soil bacteria with
hexavalent actinides (Pu(VI) and U(VI))." P. J. Panak, R. Knopp, C. H.
Booth, H. Nitsche.

American Chemical Society National Meeting National Meeting, San Diego,
California, April 1-5, 2001. "Molecular studies of interfacial
plutonium-mineral interactions on manganese oxide hydroxide mineral
surfaces." D. A. Shaughnessy, H. Nitsche, R. J. Serne, D. K. Shuh, G. A.
Waychunas, C. H. Booth, H. Gill.

International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, Aug. 6-10, 2001. "Non-thermal lattice disorder in
UCu~5-x~Pd." C. H. Booth.

International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, Aug. 6-10, 2001. "High-resolution photoemission
spectroscopy on intermediate valent Yb-compounds: predictions of the
Anderson impurity model." S. Schmidt, F. Reinert, D. Ehm, G. Nicolay, O.
Trovarelli, C. H. Booth, R. Hauser, and S. Hufner.

American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 26-30,
2001. "Investigation of molecular interfacial reactions between
plutonium and manganese oxide hydroxide mineral surfaces." D. A.
Shaughnessy, H, Nitsche, R. J. Serne, D. K. Shuh, G. A. Waychunas, C. H.
Booth, K. J. Cantrell.

8th International Conference on \"Chemistry and Migration Behavior of
Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere(Migration \'01)\",
Bregenz, Austria, September 16-21, 2001. "Interaction of aerobic soil
bacteria with hexavalent actinides (Pu(VI) and U(VI))." P. J. Panak, H.
Nitsche, R. Knopp, C. H. Booth.

Actinides 2001, Hayama, Japan, November 4-9, 2001. "Complexation and
redox interactions between aqueous plutonium and manganese oxide
interfaces." D. A. Shaughnessy, H. Nitsche, R. J. Serne, D. K. Shuh, G.
A. Waychunas, C. H. Booth, K. J. Cantrell, R. E. Wilson.

Office of Science and Technology, Environmental Management Science
Program, FY 2002 Vadose Zone Workshop, Richland, WA, , November 5-6,
2001. "Transuranic interfacial reaction studies on manganese oxide
mineral surfaces." D. A. Shaughnessy, H. Nitsche, R. J. Serne, D. K.
Shuh, G. A. Waychunas, C. H. Booth, K. J. Cantrell.

American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18-21,
2002. "Searching for lattice disorder in non-Fermi liquid
U~3~Ni~3~Sn~4~." L. E. De Long, C. H. Booth, L. Shlyk.

American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18-21,
2002. "Relationship between lattice disorder and non-Fermi liquid
properties in annealed UCu~4~Pd." C. H. Booth, E.-W. Scheidt, A. Weber,
D. Maurer, S. Kehrein.

American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18-21,
2002. "Studies of Vibrational Properties in Actinide Metals by Extended
X-ray Absorption Fine Structure." E. Nelson, P. Allen, C. H. Booth.

German Physical Society Meeting, March 2002. "NFF-Verhalten in UCu~4~Pd
durch Unordnung?" C. H. Booth, E.-W. Scheidt, A. Weber, D. Maurer, S.
Kehrein.

American Physical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18-21,
2002. "Rare Earth Coordination Environment in Rare Earth Ultraphosphate
Lasermedia." K. Marasinghe, Q. Li, M. Karabulut, R. Brow, C. H. Booth,
D. Shuh, C. Benmore.

**PENDING PROPOSALS**

*Actinide Chemistry*, FY 2003 Field Work Proposal, Director, Office of
Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division of
the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE‑AC03-76SF00098.
January (2002). (FY2003, Booth \$200K)

*Disorder and multiple length scales in non-Fermi liquid f-electron
intermetallics*, C. H. Booth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
FY2003 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Proposal,
April (2002). (4 pages, \$100K)

*Novel physical behavior of nanostructured materials derived from
interface atoms*, M. Nastasi, A. Misra, H. Kung, R. H. Hoagland, M. F.
Hundley, M. Fitzsimmons, S. Park, J. M. Wills, A. Niklasson, Los Alamos
National Laboratory FY2003 Laboratory Directed Research and Development
(LDRD) Proposal, May (2002) (\$1.1M, Booth \$95K)

**SUPPORTED PROPOSALS**

*Actinide Chemistry*, FY 2001 Field Work Proposal, Director, Office of
Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division of
the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE‑AC03-76SF00098.
January (2000).

*Actinide Chemistry*, FY 2002 Field Work Proposal, Director, Office of
Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division of
the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE‑AC03-76SF00098.
January (2001). (Booth \$195K/yr)

*Disorder and multiple length scales in non-Fermi liquid f-electron
intermetallics*, C. H. Booth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
FY2002 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Proposal,
April (2001). (4 pages, \$100K)

**UNSUPPORTED PROPOSALS**

*Institute for Actinide Interactions at Complex Environmental
Interfaces*, H. Nitsche, M. K. Firestone, J. D. Keasling, K. N. Raymond,
G. Sposito, H. E. Doner, S. W. Hermanowicz, S. B. Clark, S. C. B.
Myneni, C. H. Booth, J. Bruno Salgot, T. C. Hazen, H.-Y. N. Holman, W.
W. Lukens, L. Rao, N. Rosch, D. K. Shuh, T. K. Tokunaga, T. Torok, and
G. A. Waychunas, submitted to the National Science Foundation
(NSF-0068), June (2000); 165 pages, \$7.5M over five years.

*Simultaneous Femtosecond- and Nanometer-Resolved Measurements of
Collective Phenomena in Spatially and Temporally Inhomogeneous
Electronic Materials,* J. L. Sarrao, A. J. Taylor, S. A. Crooker, S. A.
Trugman, C. H. Booth, Z. Fisk, C. W. Siders and K. R. Wilson, Complex
Systems: Science for the 21st Century Call, Office of Basic Energy
Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, FY 2000. (3
years, Booth \$100K/yr)

*Crystalline and magnetic nanoscale disorder in 4f and 5f
intermetallics: Implications for f-electron bonding*, C. H. Booth, D. K.
Shuh, J. L Sarrao, J. B. Kortright, D. L. Cox, Nanoscale Science,
Engineering, and Technology Call, Office of Basic Energy Sciences,
Office of Science, U.S. DOE, FY2001. (1-page white paper, \$100K)

*Institute for Actinide Interactions at Complex Environmental
Interfaces*, H. Nitsche, J. F. Banfield, J. D. Keasling, R. M. Pitzer,
K. N. Raymond, G. Sposito, K. Balasubramanian, C. H. Booth, G. Bernhard,
T. C. Hazen, H.-Y. N. Holman, W. W. Lukens, W. C. McCurdy, L. Rao, D. K.
Shuh, T. K. Tokunaga, T. Torok, G. A. Waychunas and Z. Zang, submitted
to the National Science Foundation, (NSF 02-015) February (2002);
166 pages, \$7.5M over five years.

**FACILITY PROPOSALS** (partial)

Los Alamos Neutron Science Center beamtime proposal "Searching for
lattice-induced Kondo disorder." 1998

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory beamtime proposal, "Charge
localization, lattice effects in heavy-fermion and related compounds."
1998-2000

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory beamtime
proposal "Characterizing disorder in the unconventional spin glass
Y~2~Mo~2~O~7~." 2000

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory beamtime proposal, "Local
lattice disorder effects in correlated *f*-electron systems." 2000-2002

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory beamtime proposal, "Local
lattice disorder effects in correlated *f*-electron systems."
2002-present

Advanced Photon Source, Basic Energy Sciences Synchrtron Radiation
Chemistry Collaborative Access Team beamtime proposal, "Non-Fermi liquid
behavior, lattice disorder and clustering in *f*-electron
intermetallics." 2002

Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering, Chalk River, beamtime
proposal "Lattice Distortion in the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore
Y~2~Mo~2~O~7~." 2002