Novel magnetic oxides

The focus of Novel Material group´s scientific work is the study of competing interactions, in transition metal oxides. Competition between interactions of comparable strength often results in frustration as they attempt to produce different ground states that are nearly degenerate. Although competing interactions may inhibit the establishment of robust long-range order, they are a powerful driving force behind a variety of phenomena that are of considerable interest in materials science, including colossal magnetoresistance, relaxor ferroelectricity, and multi-ferroic behavior such as magneto-ferroelectricity, magneto-capacitance and magneto-thermopower. The focus on transition metal oxides is due to the fact that these materials display a particularly rich array of competing interactions with a high degree of tunability. For more informations on Novel Materials group click here.

The Novel Materials group is responsible for the Materials Laboratories, in which it is performed synthesis of ceramic powder and single crystals of various oxides of interest.