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  1. X-ray thermal diffuse scattering as a texture-robust temperature diagnostic for dynamically compressed solids

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, October 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Patrick Heighway

  2. Calibration and characterization of the line-VISAR diagnostic at the HED-HIBEF instrument at the European XFEL

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, July 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Patrick Heighway

  3. The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction

    Article • Nature, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Heighway

  4. Isostructural Phase Transition of Fe2O3

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  5. Femtosecond temperature measurements of laser-shocked copper deduced from the intensity of the x-ray thermal diffuse scattering

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, April 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Patrick Heighway

  6. Shock-driven amorphization and melting in Fe2O3

    Article • Physical Review B, January 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  7. Diffuse scattering from dynamically compressed single-crystal zirconium following the pressure-induced α→ω pha...

    Article • August 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  8. Unexpected Observation of Disorder and Multiple Phase-Transition Pathways in Shock-Compressed Zr

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  9. Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in warm-dense Fe compounds beyond the SASE FEL resolution limit

    Article • Communications Physics, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Heighway

  10. Shock compression experiments using the DiPOLE 100-X laser on the high energy density instrument at the European x-ray free electron laser: Quantitative structural analysis of liquid Sn

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, April 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Patrick Heighway

  11. Crystal plasticity finite element simulation of lattice rotation and x-ray diffraction during laser shock compression of tantalum

    Article • Physical Review Materials, November 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  12. High pressure phase transition and strength estimate in polycrystalline alumina during laser-driven shock compression

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, December 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Patrick Heighway

  13. Atomistic investigation of cavitation and ablation in tantalum foils under irradiation with x-rays approaching 5 keV

    Article • Physical Review B, July 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  14. Slip competition and rotation suppression in tantalum and copper during dynamic uniaxial compression

    Article • Physical Review Materials, April 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  15. Molecular dynamics simulations of inelastic x-ray scattering from shocked copper

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, September 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Patrick Heighway

  16. Identifying the deformation mechanisms of shock-loaded metals

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, February 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Patrick Heighway

  17. Metastability of diamond ramp-compressed to 2 terapascals

    Article • Nature, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Heighway

  18. Investigating off-Hugoniot states using multi-layer ring-up targets

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Heighway

  19. Recovery of a high-pressure phase formed under laser-driven compression

    Article • July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  20. Nonisentropic Release of a Shocked Solid

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  21. Molecular dynamics simulations of grain interactions in shock-compressed highly textured columnar nanocrystals

    Article • Physical Review Materials, August 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway

  22. Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Reversal of the Microstructural Effects of Plastic Deformation during Shock Release of Tantalum

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Patrick Heighway