Partner – IF-PAN
Institut of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IF-PAN), Poland
The Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences has over 400
staff members (22 Professors, 30 Doctors of Sciences (with habilitation)
and 150 PhD scientists). The Department of Magnetic Materials, which participates
in the DT-CRYS project, has a staff of more than 40 scientists and technicians,
working mainly on the physics of magnetic and superconducting materials.
The Department has unique facilities for single crystal growth (Czochralski
furnaces, chemical transport, flux and melting zone techniques) and is
equipped also in magnetometers (SQUID, Foner). There is a variety of spectrometers
covering wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, starting from millimetre
frequencies upwards. Other experimental techniques include transport,
thermal expansion, magnetostriction and specific heat measurements. Three
separate but closely collaborating groups in the fields of optical and
ESR spectroscopy, magnetic and thermodynamical investigations and oxide
crystal growth will be involved in the DT-CRYS project. The research on
double tungstates started in 1996. At this time the group has published
more than 40 papers on Ln double tungstates. Main achievements include
the discovery of several structural and magnetic phase transitions in
KT(WO4)2 (T=Dy, Er, Ho, Nd), the experimental proof that structural phase
transitions have character of the cooperative Jahn-Teller effect (CJTE)
that means the monoclinic double tungstates are the lowest symmetry compounds
with CJTE, and revealing the connections between the chain-layered structure
of Ln double tungstates and low-dimensional effects of magnetic state.
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