Exploring Electronic Materials with Extreme Conditions

计算机、移动的手机和平板电脑等电子技术是从对电子和磁性材料的理解和操纵中产生的。复杂的相关电子材料，如超导体和磁体，为化学家，物理学家和材料科学家提供了一个挑战，以发现新的材料和基态，这些材料和基态将指导理论并支撑未来的电子技术。极端物理条件的利用对电子材料的研究至关重要。高温和高压用于合成和结晶具有强连接原子的致密新材料，而在多个极端（高压，低温和高磁场的组合）下的性能测量使电子相关性得以探索。这些方法将应用于高温和奇异超导体，自旋电子材料，自旋冰中的磁单极子和拓扑电子材料等主题材料。拟议的平台资助将使我们能够对我们的研究采取更连贯和战略性的观点。这将确保我们充分利用昂贵和苛刻的材料制备设施（步行者压力机用于高压和高温合成以及晶体的直拉生长）。在多个极端的测量是一个特别的共同利益，平台的支持将使我们能够协调和整合我们的PDRA团队的活动，他们设计，建造和使用压力池进行电子输运，磁化和中子散射测量。它还将使我们的PDRA和学生通过与其他学科背景的同事合作获得更广泛的经验和培训。

Electronic technologies such as computers, mobile phones and tablets have emerged from understanding andmanipulation of electronic and magnetic materials. Complex correlated electron materials such as superconductors and magnets provide a challenge for chemists, physicists and materials scientists to discover new materials and ground states that will guide theory and underpin future electronic technologies. The use of extreme physical conditions is very important to electronic materials research. High temperatures and pressures are used to synthesise and crystallize dense new materials with strongly connected atoms, while property measurements at multiple extremes (combinations of high pressure, low temperatures and high magnetic fields) enable the electron correlations to be explored. These methods will be applied to topical materials such as high temperature and exotic superconductors, spintronic materials, magnetic monopoles in spin ices, and topological electronic materials.The proposed Platform grant will enable us to take a more coherent and strategic view of our research. It will ensure that we make the best use of expensive and demanding materials preparation facilities (Walker press for high pressure and temperature synthesis and Czochralski growth of crystals). Measurements at multiple extremes are a particular common interest, and Platform support will enable us to coordinate and integrate the activities of our team of PDRA's who design, build and use pressure cells for electronic transport, magnetization and neutron scattering measurements. It will also enable our PDRA's and students to gain a broader experience and training by working with colleagues with backgrounds in other disciplines.