Enthusiastic discussions on solid-state physics and materials science at SPMS2021

Combinatorial solid state materials science and technology

Conventional ‘one by one’ synthesis approach has been a major rate limiting step in the systematic exploration of increasingly complex materials for the demanding new technologies. New concepts of ‘combinatorial chemistry’ are presented for the substantially efficient and cost-effective parallel synthesis and optimization of variety of multicomponent compounds as well as artificially designed l...

The physics of solid-state neutron detector materials and geometries.

Detection of neutrons, at high total efficiency, with greater resolution in kinetic energy, time and/or real-space position, is fundamental to the advance of subfields within nuclear medicine, high-energy physics, non-proliferation of special nuclear materials, astrophysics, structural biology and chemistry, magnetism and nuclear energy. Clever indirect-conversion geometries, interaction/transp...

Solid - state NMR spectroscopy for structural investigations in materials science

Elements of informatics for combinatorial solid - state materials science

The main purpose of using combinatorial techniques for materials science studies is to achieve higher experimental throughput than what is possible when samples are synthesized and characterized one at a time. The instrumentation needed for performing high-throughput synthesis and characterization has seen rapid development in recent years. The software tools needed to connect all parts of the ...

Iii. Solid State Physics

The well known phenomenological theory of F. and H. London leads to rather severe restrictions for the electronic wave functions which might possibly account for the phenomenon of superconductivity. Yet all attempts to construct such wave functions according to the principle of quantum mechanics have been so far unsuccessful. This failure seems to stem from the use of one-electron functions for...