CAREER: The Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal and Lanthanide Intermetallic Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

这个教师早期职业发展（Career）项目的目标是研究各种新型金属间化合物系统的电子和磁性基态。这些包括稀土、碱土和过渡金属金属间化合物。通过改变材料的化学掺杂，将探索强相关电子系统领域的突出问题，包括超导性和磁性之间的相互作用，近藤绝缘体的高温铁磁性以及非常规超导性。该项目包括材料的合成，然后是其结构表征和物理性能的测量。该项目将涉及路易斯安那州立大学、国家高磁场实验室和南方大学的合作者。除了培养研究生和本科生的综合、表征和分析技能，使他们能够在学术界、工业界或政府实验室找到工作外，这个CAREER项目的教育组成部分还包括向少数民族学生提供K-12教育服务。此外，PI还将对非专业物理课程进行课程改革。当一种材料中的电子彼此强烈地相互作用时，就会发生新的现象。用不同于传统金属和绝缘体的方式来调整这些材料的行为是可能的。例如，通过改变材料的化学掺杂，就有可能使绝缘体变成非常规的超导体。这个教师早期职业发展（Career）项目的目标是提供对被称为金属间化合物的强相关材料家族的物理学的见解。在这个过程中，可能会发现技术上有用的材料。该项目包括材料的合成，然后是其结构表征和物理性能的测量。该项目将涉及路易斯安那州立大学、国家高磁场实验室和南方大学的合作者。除了训练研究生和本科生合成材料，以及特征和分析，这个CAREER项目的教育组成部分还包括向少数民族学生提供K-12教育服务。此外，PI还将对非专业物理课程进行课程改革。

The goal of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to investigate the electronic and magnetic ground states of a variety of novel intermetallic systems. These will include rare earth, alkaline earth, and transition metal intermetallics. By varying the chemical doping of the materials, outstanding questions in the field of strongly correlated electron systems including the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism, high temperature ferromagnetism in Kondo insulators, and unconventional superconductivity will be explored. The project includes the synthesis of the materials followed by their structural characterization and measurement of their physical properties. The project will involve collaborators at LSU, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and at Southern University. Aside from training graduate and undergraduate students in synthesis, characterization, and analysis skills that will enable them to find employment in academe, industry, or government laboratories, the education component of this CAREER project includes K-12 outreach to minority students. In addition the PI will implement curricula reform in physics courses for non-majors. %%%When the electrons in a material interact strongly with each other, new phenomena can occur. It is possible to tune the behavior of such materials in ways different from conventional metals and insulators. As an example by changing the chemical doping of a material, it is possible to make an insulator into an unconventional superconductor. The goal of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to provide insight into the physics of the family of strongly correlated materials known as intermetallics. In the process technologically useful materials may be discovered. The project includes the synthesis of the materials followed by their structural characterization and measurement of their physical properties. The project will involve collaborators at LSU, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and at Southern University. Aside from training graduate and undergraduate students in the synthesis of materials, as well as characterization and analysis, the education component of this CAREER project includes K-12 outreach to minority students. . In addition the PI will implement curricula reform in physics courses for non-majors.