Studies on the Electrochemical Growth of ( Per ) n [ Au ( mnt

The Solid State Group has developed during the past years a broad range of expertise in complementary areas of solid state science and focused, under a global approach, on selected new materials with unconventional electrical and magnetic properties. The nature of the group is multidisciplinary combining expertise ranging from the synthetic chemistry of both molecular materials with transition metal complexes and intermetallic compounds, to many different specialised solid state characterisation techniques. Among the more relevant facilities developed, operated by and maintained in the group, are a high temperature laboratory with crystal growth techniques (Czochralski, Bridgman and float zone), X-ray diffraction (single crystals and powder), EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopy, measurements of magnetisation by SQUID, Faraday and extraction techniques and AC-susceptibility, different electronic transport measurements and heat capacity, in a broad range of temperature and magnetic field.