Quick Links – Most Used Items

• Chemical Equation Solver
• Starting Material Purification (incomplete)
• Ellingham Diagram (Selectable Web Version)
• Hulk Signup Sheet (Tables of vapor pressures and melting points of most oxides)
• Crystal Atomic Radii in Oxides and Fluorides, Chalcogenides and Halides, and Intermetallics
• Known Superconductors: List 1, List 2 (older but more complete), and List 3
• Cond Mat
• Web of Science

Quantum Fluids, Electron Correlation, and Superconductivity

Reviews

• Basic Research Needs in Superconductivity (DoE 2006 Workshop)
• Role of Orbitals in the Physics of Correlated Electron Systems (Khomskii)
• Metal-Insulator Transitions (Imada, Fujimora, Tokura)
• Metal-Insulator Transitions in Selected Oxides (Honig and Van Zandt)
• Oxide Superconductors (Cava)
• Organic Superconductors (Williams)
• Chem Comm 2005 Superconductivity Review
• Quasi-two-dimensional organic superconductors: a review
• Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Mixed Niobium(IV,V)Oxides
  
• Layered Iron Pnictide Superconductors: discovery and current status
• Arsenide Superconductor Structure Review (Lynn)
• Review on Oxypnictide Superconductors (Kauzlarich)
• Magnetic borocarbide superconductor review
• New Science for a Secure and Sustainable Energy Future
• Ni superconductor review
• The development of organic conductors: Organic superconductors
• Exotic spin textures show up in diverse materials
• Superconducting diamond review

Theory

• Superconductivity Mechanisms with real data (Uemura)
• Extended Kadowaki-Woods Ratio for Correlated Materials
• Instabilities in Hexagonal Layer Compounds (C. Felser)
• Orbital orderings and frustration (Khomskii & Mostovoy)
• From high temperature superconductivity to quantum spin liquid: progress in strong correlation physics (Patrick Lee)
• Theory of Resonating Valence Bond Insulators on Triangular Lattices (P.W. Anderson). Supplement with additional details.
• Insights from Dynamic Mean Field Theory (Kotliar & Vollhardt)
• Polarons and Bipolaron Superconductivity
• Advances in the Physics of High Temperature Superconductivity (Orenstein & Millis)
• Orbital Physics in Transition Metal Oxides (Tokura)
• What do we know about High Tc? (Leggett 2006)
• Quantum Critical Point in Heavy Fermions
• Theorists Speak Out About High Tc Superconductivity (2006)
• Metals without Electrons: The Physics of Exotic Quantum Fluids
• Quasi-particles and their absence in photoemission spectroscopy
• Quantum Phase Transitions in Correlated Metals
• The Next Breakthrough in Phonon-Mediated Superconductivity
• Design for a Room Temperature Superconductor
• Making and breaking bonds in the solid state: the thorium chromium silicide (ThCr₂Si₂) structure
• Donor-Acceptor Layer Formation and Lattice Site Preference in the Solid: The CaBe₂Ge₂ Structure

Synthesis and Results

• Orbital Assisted Metal-Insulator Transition in VO₂
• Synthesis of Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors
• Commonalities in phase and mode (Uemura)

Tabulations

• List of known intermetallic superconductors
• List of known intermetallic superconductors (older, but more complete)
• Matthias on Superconductivity (explanation plus lists)

Magnetism and Magnetic Frustration

Reviews

• Spin Glass: An Experimental Introduction(Mydosh)
• Triangular Geometries in Real Materials
• Strong Geometric Magnetic Frustration in Spinels (Takagi)
• Review of Collosal Magnetoresistance (Ramirez)
• Review of Giant Magnetoresistance (Thompson)
• Magnetic Pyrochlore Oxides (Gardner et. al.)
• Multiferroics Review (Scott et. al.)
• Triangular Antiferromagnets, a Review (Collins, et al) (cond mat version)
• Geometrically frustrated magnetic materials (Greedan)
• Magnets with strong geometric frustration (Moessner)
• Strongly Geometrically Frustrated Magnets (Ramirez)
• Spin Dynamics in Frustrated Magnets: From edge- to corner- sharing geometries (Mendels, et al)
• Spin Ice State in Frustrated Magnetic Pyrochlore Materials (Bramwell, et al)
• Magnetically Ordered Multinary Semiconductors
• Linus Pauling’s (in)Famous Ice Rules
• Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science
• Kanamori and Goodenough Superexchange Rules
• Low-temperature properties of classical geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets (Moessner and Chalker)
• Wide band gap ferromagnetic semiconductors and oxides
• Ferromagnetic semiconductor GaMnAs
• Introduction to Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors (Zheng)
• Molecular magnetism, status, and perspectives

Presentations/Guides

• Ferroelectric Bananas (a caution in claiming ferroelectricity)
• Frustrated Magnetism and Heavy Fermions
• NIST Magnetic Structure Determination
• Magnetic Structure Determination from Neutron Powder Diffraction Data

Synthesis and Results

• Magneto-Optical Properties of AM2X4 Spinels (Tokura)
• Superparamagnetism in Co (McHenry)
• Copper Vanadates (in German)

Tabulations

• Polygon Tilings
• Core Diamagnetism of the Elements (Additional list paper 1 and paper 2)
• Magnetic Moments of Many Ions

Materials in Devices

• Review of Complex Thermoelectric Materials (Snyder)
• High-Tc Materials Get to Work (Malozemoff)
• Ferroelectric Devices (Ahn)
• Field Effect Devices I (Ahn)
• Field Effect Devices II (Ahn)
• Introduction to MRI
• Photocatalytic water splitting under visible light with particulate semiconductor catalysts
• Absolute Band Energies of Oxide and Sulfide Semiconductors for Water Splitting
• Thermoelectric Cooling and Power Generation
• Lithium ion battery review in Nature

Background References

Techniques

• Neutron Scattering Primer (Roger Pynn)
• Neutron Scattering as a Powerful Tool in Solid State Chemistry
• Caveats of Magnetic Structure Determination from Powder Data
• X-Rays and X-Ray Diffraction
• Specific Heat at Low Temperatures
• Types of SQUIDs
• Kinetics and Mechanisms of Flux Crystal Growth (Görnert)
• Crystal Growth from High Temperature Solutions (Scheel)
• Purification of Inorganic compounds
• Crystal Growth of Functional Oxides Using an Image Furnace (Koohpayeh Thesis)
• Insertion/extraction of lithium and sodium in transition metal oxides and chalcogenides

Basic Properties

• Theories on the Magnetic Properties of Compounds (Koide & Oguchi)
• Magnetic Properties of Solids (M.S. Dresselhaus)
• The magnetic properties of solids
• Superparamagnetism (Dormann)
• The Nature of Crystalline Solids
• The band theory of solids
• Bonding in Metals, Semiconductors, and Insulators: Band Structure
• Band Gaps and Electronic Structure of Transition-Metal Compounds (Zaanen, Sawatzky, Allen)
• References for Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Solids
• Charge and Spin Density Waves
• Spin- and Orbital- Ordering Types
• Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams
• Oxide Pyrochlores (Subramanian)
• Magnetic Properties of Materials, Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors, Magnetic Resonances (NMR and ESR) and Spintronics (Agrawal)

Structural Chemistry

• Exploratory Synthesis of New Materials (John Corbett)
• Crystallography and Chemistry of Perovskites (Johnsson & Lemmens)
• Layered Perovskite-Related Ruthenium Oxychlorides
• Electronic and ionic transport properties and other physical aspects of perovskites
• Basic Structure Types and Their Derivatives (work in progress)
• Structural Phase Transitions in Crystals (Tomaszewski)
• Zintl Chemistry for Designing High Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials
• Predicted P3 ferroelectrics(Abrahams)
• Crystal chemistry of the garnets(S. Geller)
• The Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (Wilson)

Tabulations

• All known garnets
  

Analysis Tools and Tables

General

• Smoczyca Resources (including ChemSolve, Karma Logbook, Hulk Signup)
• Fisk Eu3In2P4 Crystal Growth Technique
• Starting Material Purification (incomplete)
• Overview of Ionic Liquids
• Ellingham Diagram (Selectable Web Version)
• Electrochemical Series
• Methods for obtaining sufficiently pure rhenium and rhodium oxides and binary lanthanides

Crystallography

• Special Points and Brillouin Zones
• NIST BT-1 Specifications
• Crystallographic Point Groups
• TEM Diffraction Length Calculations
• Transforming between Unit Cells
• Rhombohedral-Hexagonal-Monoclinic Unit Cell Relations
• A Bond Valence Calculator Excel Worksheet and Source Paper (ri’s)
• GSAS Powder Simulation Trick
• HKL index bracket notation

Downloadable Forms

• Commonly Used Graphics
• Coarse-ruled Triangular Paper
• Fine-ruled Triangular Paper

Electricity and Magnetism

• Quantitative Models of Magnetic Susceptibility
• Four Probe Measurements FAQ, and Correction Factors: Bars, Circles, and General Shapes
• Method of Attaching Contacts to submillimeter crystals
• Discussion for analyzing data using the Curie-Weiss Law
• Practice data for above example
• Reference paper for Curie-Weiss exercise (Graham)
• Reference for magnetic unit conversions (Quickenden and Marshall)

Tabulations

• Vapor Pressure Limits of Quartz with P-T list for common volatile elements
• Crystal Atomic Radii in: Oxides and Fluorides, Chalcogenides and Halides, and Intermetallics
• Wassmaier X-ray scattering factors of atoms and ions
• Vaccum Furnaces: Tables of vapor pressures of most oxides (Full Paper)
• Elemental Analysis: Alfa Aesar Borate Fluxes for Elemental Analysis
• Atomic Polarizabilities
• Common Thermocouple Types
• Unit Conversions
• Revised values of effective ionic radii (Shannon & Prewitt)

Instruction Manuals

• PPMS 9T Tutorial
• Karma Tutorial
• Seebeck Tutorial
• Network Printer Installation (Windows)
• 1200dpi Color Postscript Printer Installation (Windows). Requires: GenericPS.zip
• LMTO Simulators Remote Access
• Unofficial LMTO Tutorial
• Floating Zone Mirror Replacement: Original Japanese or English Translation

Links to Other Websites

• X-ray and neutron diffraction tutorial, University of Cambridge
• Bragg’s Law, SUNY Center for High Pressure Research
• Crystallography 101, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Fundamentals of Superconductivty, Oak Ridge National Lab
• Superconductivity Links Page, Superconductors.org
• Magnetic levitation: The frog who learned to fly
• Magnetism, University of Hull, UK
• Ferromagnetism, University of Washington
• Online periodic table: http://www.webelements.com
• Brookhaven National Lab, New York (http://www.bnl.gov)
• Argonne National Lab, Illinois (http://www.anl.gov)
• Oak Ridge National Lab, Tennessee (http://www.ornl.gov)
• Matweb: Excellent reference for physical properties

Journals

Weekly

• Physical Review Letters

Biweekly

• Physical Review B
• Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
• European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Monthly

• Nature
• Nature Physics
• Nature Materials
• Journal of Solid State Chemistry
• Journal of Materials Research