| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/T27341/01 |
| Title: |
Determining the origin of superconductivity in crystalline organic metals |
| Principal Investigator: |
Blundell, Professor S |
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Oxford Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 2005 |
Ends: |
31 October 2008 |
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212,275
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| Materials Characterisation |
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Organic molecular metals are a class of highly anisotropic crystalline systems. In many cases, superconductivity occurs neighbouring a strongly correlated electron phase, strongly suggesting that the superconductivity is exotic, although the underlying mechanisms of this behaviour remain to be determined. Organic molecular metals are excellent model systems to study these phenomena because (a) there are a wide variety of correlated phases; (b) the samples can be prepared with exceptional purity; (c) structure and band structure parameters can be tuned and measured with great accuracy. The objective of this proposal is use to these systems to examine the relationship between the correlated electron phases and the superconductivity. W e shall achieve this by two classes of approach: (1) measurement of magnetothermoelectric effects in order to study the thermodynamics of the elementary electronic excitations and the superconducting vortices; (2) detection of local moments which have been predicted to occur in the high temperature phase of organic superconductors, using ESR and muSR.
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