Speaker
Dr
Ulrich Schwarz
(MPI für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe)
Description
The combination of high pressures and high temperatures is a well-known strategy in
target-oriented chemical syntheses to meet the stability fields of new compounds
and, thus, to synthesize solids with novel and often unusual physical properties.
Beside the potential for preparative chemistry, the state variable pressure can induce
structural and electronic changes of condensed phases. Magnetic transitions and
spin as well as charge ordering phenomena are associated with small energy
changes which often require the simultaneous realization of low-temperatures in
experimental investigations. Studies on phase transformations of selected elements
and intermetallic compounds will illustrate the interplay between electronic and
structural alterations as evidenced by x-ray diffraction experiments at third generation
synchrotron sources.
Primary author
Dr
Ulrich Schwarz
(MPI für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe)
