Research

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);