Magnetism and Magnetic Materials at Kyoto University

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Subjects

・Fundamental aspects of magnetism and magnetic materials
・Search for new materials showing new and novel quantum phenomena
・Effects of geometric frustration in metallic magnets
・Quantum magnetism
of strongly-correlated-electron / low-dimensional / random / frustrated systems
・Search for new magnetic functional materials
・Development of ecological magnetic materials
・Magnon Hall effect in magnetic insulators

Methods

・Sample preparation
  -Arc melting (single, tetra)
  -Induction melting
  -Optical floating zone method
  -Solid state reaction
  -Chemical vapor transport
  -HIP*
  -SPS*
・X-ray characterization
・Magnetization measurements (SQUID, VSM*)
・Transport measurements
・Specific heat*
・Thermal expansion
・Magnetostriction
・Neutron scattering
・NMR of magnetic materials
・57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy
・muSR*
・XMCD*
・RXMS*
(*) joint research

Materials

・itinerant-electron frustrated systems
  -YMn2, beta-Mn
  -eta-caribide-type nitrides/carbides/oxides
  -beta-Mn-type carbides
  -Mo3Sb7
  -Co shandites
  -chimney-ladder transition-metal silicides/germinates
・transition-metal carbides/nitrides
  -magnetic MAX phases
  -transition-metal antiperovskites
・metal-cluster compounds
  -GaMo4S8-type compounds
  -V4S9Br4
・heavy-fermion and rare-earth systems
  -Ce(Ru-Rh)2Si2
  -ErNi2Si2
・random magnets
  -(R-Y)Ru2Si2
・Metal-insulator transition systems
  -BaVS3
  -hollandaites
・metallic chiral magnets
  -MnP
  -Gd-Y alloys
・permanent magnets
  -hexagonal ferrites