Synthetic metals: Polyacetylene and organic superconductors lead the field

High-field magnetoresistive effects in low-dimensional organic metals and superconductors

Quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals and superconductors are very flexible systems in the study of many-body effects and unusual mechanisms for superconductivity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Their “soft” lattices enable one to use relatively low pressures to tune the same material through a variety of low-temperature groundstates, for example from Mott insulator via intermingled antiferro...

High-field magnetoresistive effects in reduced-dimensionality organic metals and superconductors

Quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals and superconductors are very flexible systems in the study of many-body effects and unusual mechanisms for superconductivity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Their “soft” lattices enable one to use relatively low pressures to tune the same material through a variety of low-temperature groundstates, for example from Mott insulator via intermingled antiferro...

1 6 O ct 2 00 6 1 High - field magnetoresistive effects in reduced - dimensionality organic metals and superconductors

1 High-field magnetoresistive effects in reduced-dimensionality organic metals and superconductors Summary. The large charge-transfer anisotropy of quasi-one-and quasi-two-dimensional crystalline organic metals means that magnetoresistance is one of the most powerful tools for probing their bandstructure and interesting phase diagrams. Here we review various magnetoresistance phenomena that are...

The Development of Organic Conductors: Organic Superconductors

Superconductivity ( a new state of matter) has been one of the major discovery of the twentieth century in physics. From an experimental point of view the finding by Kamerlingh Onnes[1] in 1911 of a current travelling without resistance through a metal cooled at very low temperature paved the way to a very large number of industrial applications. And this, long before the proposal of a satisfac...

Strong correlations in organic charge transfer salts: superconductors, Mott insulators, bad metals and spin liquids