Igor Vinograd and Marc-Henri Julien, LNCMI-Grenoble. High-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates arises in close proximity to a charge density wave (CDW) phase. A challenge in the field is to understand how both phenomena compete and whether, behind pure competition, there is a more involved relationship between them. To tackle [...]
Rosa Córdoba, ICMol and Uli Zeitler, HFML Nijmegen. The fabrication and understanding of complex three-dimensional (3D) architectures on the nanoscale is one of the promising routes towards new schemes for a next generation of advanced electronic devices. This endeavor requires advanced new processing technologies, state-of-the-art structural and electronic characterization [...]
HLD Dresden. Published on Mar 11, 2020. I recently joined the Dresden High Magnetic Fields Laboratory (HLD) as a PhD student. During my diploma studies, I worked at the Low Temperatures Laboratory at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research where the research is mainly focused on superconductivity in strongly [...]
S. Rößler, S. Wirth, MPI CPfS Dresden and Y. Skourski, HLD Dresden In recent years, the iron chalcogenides received considerable attention in the condensed-matter physics community which was mainly sparked by the discovery of superconductivity below Tc ≈ 8.5 K in bulk FeSe. The binary sister compound Fe1+yTe is [...]
Michal Baranowski and Paulina Plochocka, LNCMI-Toulouse Organic-inorganic halide perovskites have become the “next big thing” in emerging semiconductor materials, with their unprecedented rapid development and successful application in high-performance photovoltaics. Yet, their inherent instabilities with respect to moisture remain a crucial challenge for these materials. This directed the interest [...]
LNCMI - Toulouse. Published on Feb 13, 2020. I joined the LNCMI Toulouse last September, but I am not completely new, as I made a short stay in this laboratory quite a long time ago now! At that time, together with Loic Drigo, we developed a contactless measurement method [...]
Lisa Rossi and Ben Bryant, HFML Nijmegen Frustrated magnets are materials with competing spin interactions, which cannot be simultaneously satisfied. While these materials have become most famous as a playground for novel phases, such as quantum spin liquids, they also exhibit technologically relevant properties, such as multiferroicity and an [...]
Toshihiro Nomura* and Sergei Zherlitsyn, HLD Dresden. A quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM) is an ultrasensitive device to detect changes of the mass. When an external mass is coupled to the surface of the quartz micromembrane, the resonance frequency f0 of the QCM decreases. Owing to the high quality factor, Q, [...]
Milan Orlita, LNCMI-Grenoble. When a magnetic field is applied to a solid, the continuous density of electronic states transforms into a set of discrete energy levels, known as Landau levels. Electrons excited in such a ladder may recombine, with emission of photons. This process can be viewed as the [...]
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (IRFU) located in Paris-Saclay has joined EMFL, starting December 1st, 2019. The membership is a logical next step in the collaboration of CEA-IRFU and EMFL. Both have already applied together [...]