Fundamentals of Quantum Materials: A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Exploration
- Length: 265 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
- Publication Date: 2020-12-11
- ISBN-10: 9811219362
- ISBN-13: 9789811219368
- Sales Rank: #3343317 (See Top 100 Books)
Despite a long tradition of sophisticated, creative materials synthesis among quantum materials researchers, a sense of broader community has been lacking. In initiating the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School held annually at the University of Maryland, we wanted to bring together the next generation of growers to learn techniques and pointers directly from senior scientists, and it turns out that we were not alone. The enthusiasm from both students and teachers has been both gratifying and invigorating. Four schools later, we can confidently say that physicists, chemists, and materials scientists, experimentalists and theorists alike, all want to know how to make a good sample. With this in mind, we asked our lecturers to record their most important ideas and share their expertise with a broader audience. This resource is a compilation of fundamental and practical guides on the modern methods of materials synthesis utilized by these experts. We hope that you enjoy reading their essential guidance and state-of-the-art techniques as you explore the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials.
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface 1. Introduction to the Synthesis of Quantum Materials: Some General Guidelines and A Few Tricks 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Basics: Best Practices 1.3 Crystal Growth Methods 1.4 Specific Examples of the Synthesis of Single Crystals of Quantum Materials 2. Chemical Bonding and Structural Relationships in Extended Solids 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Structure and Chemical Composition 2.3 Structure, Chemical Bonding, and Structure–Property Relationships 2.4 Heavy-Fermion Materials: The Ultimate Quantum Materials? 3. Solution Growth of Intermetallic Single Crystals 3.1 Think–Make–Measure–Think 3.2 Binary Phase Diagrams and How to Use Them 3.3 Experimental Details of Assembly and Growth of PtSn4 and BaBi3 3.4 Go Forth and Multiply (The Number of Known Compounds) 4. Vapor Transport Growth of van der Waals Magnets 4.1 Introduction to van der Waals Magnets 4.2 Vapor Transport Growth 4.3 Flux Growth vs. Vapor Transport 4.4 Summary 5. Induction Furnace Heating for Growth of Intermetallic Quantum Materials 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Apparatus Details 5.3 Molten Metal Flux Method 5.4 Czochralski Method 5.5 Conclusions 6. Hydrothermal Synthesis and Crystal Growth 6.1 The Hydrothermal Generation of Inorganic Solids 6.2 History of the Hydrothermal Method 6.3 Water: The Universal Solvent 6.4 Thermodynamics of Aqueous Solutions Under Hydrothermal Conditions 6.5 Phase Diagrams for Aqueous Solutions 6.6 Kinetics in Hydrothermal Synthesis 6.7 The Hydrothermal Apparatus 6.8 Hydrothermal Synthesis of Quantum Materials 6.9 In situ Hydrothermal Studies 6.10 Electro-hydrothermal Synthesis 7. Floating Zone Crystal Growth 7.1 Introduction and Overview 7.2 The Floating Zone Growth Method 7.3 Traveling Solvent Floating Zone and Flux Methods 7.4 Types of Floating Zone Furnaces 7.5 Floating Zone Growth at Environmental Extremes 8. High-Throughput Methods in Superconductivity Research 8.1 Introduction 8.2 High-Throughput Synthesis of Superconductors 8.3 High-Throughput Characterization Probes 8.4 High-Throughput Theoretical Modeling for Superconductors 8.5 Machine Learning Methods in Study of Superconductivity 8.6 Conclusion and Perspective 9. Engineering Epitaxial Superconductor–Semiconductor Heterostructures Using Molecular Beam Epitaxy 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Molecular Beam Epitaxy 9.3 Hybrid Structure of Epitaxial Surface InAs 2DEG 9.4 Josephson-Field Effect Transistor on Epitaxial Al–InAs Heterostructures 10. High-Pressure Synthesis Approaches to Quantum Materials 10.1 Introduction 10.2 High-pressure Influence on Crystal Structures: Stabilizing New Crystal Structures 10.3 High-Pressure Influence on Solid Solubility: Increasing the Substitution Level 10.4 High-Pressure Influence on Dew and Bubble Curves: Stabilizing Liquid Solutions for New Synthesis Approaches 10.5 Technical Aspects: Case of a Cubic–Anvil High-Pressure Furnace 11. Future Directions in Quantum Materials Synthesis 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Current State of the Art 11.3 The Frontiers 11.4 Exploring the Frontiers 11.5 Conclusion Index
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