Broad Research Areas:
- Cooperative phenomena, Phase transitions, Low Temperature Physics, Unconventional Superconductivity, Magnetism, Magnetoelectricity;
- Oxide photovoltaic materials;
- Oxide Nano-materials.
Activities in Materials Growth:
- Growth of Single Crystals by Floating-Zone and other techniques;
- Novel Low Temperature Solidification processes: Hydrothermal, Solvothermal, Sol gel;
- Conventional Solid State Techniques.
Measurements and other Experiments:
- Cryogenic low temperature experiments: transport, thermal, dielectric and magnetic properties down to 0.35k and in magnetic fields of 0-9 Tesla (in-house);
- Ultrasound velocity and attenuation in variable temperature and magnetic field (in-house);
- Variable temperature x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy;
- Variable temperature x-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory);
- X-ray and neutron diffraction in variable temperature and magnetic field (Los Alamos National Lab LANSCE facility);
- Variable temperature Raman & IR spectroscopy (in-house and collaborations);
- Variable temperature time-resolved optical pump-probe experiments (collaborations);
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments in Variable Temperature and Field (collaborations, & National High Magnetic Field Laboratory);