- Novel Magnetic Materials
- Novel experimental realizations of spin-chains and ladders, spin-gap and spin-Peierls materials, frustrated antiferromagnets; studies of quantum phase transitions and critical phenomena.
- Colossal Magnetoresistance (CMR) Materials
- Origin and materials issues in CMR phenomena, role of double exchange, phonons and Jahn-Teller distortions.
- Nanocrystalline Magnetic Materials
- Experimental characterization of individual nanocrystals, qunatum tunneling in such structures, and applications of this class of materials.
- Extended Experimental Probes of Magnetism
- Including synchrotron and neutron reactor based probes of magnetic properties.
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