Supervisors

In recent years, there was a significant increase in the interest for alternative platforms for data storage and data processing, especially in the direction of increased density, minituarization and stronger computational power. Promising candidates are coordination compounds that can serve as quantum bits or behave as single molecule magnets, taking the magnetic domains all the way down to the molecular level. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is a spectroscopic technique that enables characterization of the instrinsic properties of these materials by probing the smallest magnetic unit, in this case, the spin of electrons. This project deals with the investigation of quantum magnetic properties of new coordination compounds based in transition metals that can have their magnetic behavior tuned by the orientation and magnitude of an applied magnetic field using very advanced EPR techniques with excitation frequencies up to the far infrared range and magnetic fields up to 16 T, in a range of temperatures between 2 K and 300 K.