Toni Helm, HLD. Superhydrides are metallic hydride compounds that exhibit superconductivity (SC) under mega-bar pressure at extraordinarily high temperatures. The observation of superconducting critical temperatures, Tc, as high as 250 K has revived scientists' dream of room-temperature superconductivity. While current research has focused on pushing Tc even higher, room-temperature applications [...]

Jérôme Long, ICGM, Montpellier, France, Luís D. Carlos, University of Aveiro, Portugal, Paulina Plochocka, LNCMI Toulouse. Luminescence thermometry has gained significant attention as a versatile and non-invasive tool for remote temperature measurements in diverse fields, including nanomedicine, microelectronics, catalysis, and plasmonics. One of its perceived advantages is the presumed immunity [...]

Badih Assaf, University of Notre Dame, USA, Milan Orlita, LNCMI-Grenoble. Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) is a widely known phenomenon with a long history in physics that dates back to the original experiments carried out by Faraday, dealing with the interaction of light with matter subjected to an externally applied magnetic [...]

Km Rubi, NHMFL, Los Alamos, USA, Walter Escoffier, LNCMI Toulouse, Uli Zeitler, HFML-FELIX Nijmegen. In the last two decades, two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) have been observed at the surfaces and interfaces of severalperovskite transition-metal oxides, so-called complex oxides. In particular, the widely studied 2DESs based on SrTiO3 (STO) and KTaO3 [...]