Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Our ORNL partnership is with Dr. Brenden R. Ortiz of the Correlated Electron Materials Group, who serves as co-PI on Prof. Wang’s DOE award. Dr. Ortiz synthesizes single-crystal kagome-metal samples and performs comprehensive bulk characterization, providing well-characterized materials for our magnetic resonance studies and guiding the exploration of kagome metals throughout the project.
We also collaborate with Dr. Raphael P. Hermann of the Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Group on kagome systems, pairing Mössbauer spectroscopy and nuclear resonance scattering with our NMR and NQR measurements to build a complementary microscopic picture of electronic and magnetic correlations.
University of California, Los Angeles
Our UCLA partnership is with Prof. Stuart Brown’s group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, which brings expertise in low-temperature NMR and NQR spectroscopy and in in-situ uniaxial strain techniques for correlated electron materials. The two groups run a joint magnetic resonance program on kagome metals focused on strain-modulated charge order, nematicity, and magnetic correlations, built around shared instrumentation contributed by both groups and supported by a subaward from Prof. Wang’s DOE research award. The experimental work is led by Dr. Yizhou Xin together with Dr. Riku Yamamoto in Prof. Brown’s group.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Our partnership with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory spans two user facilities.
Condensed Matter NMR Program (DC Field Facility): High-field NMR for kagome metals and strongly correlated systems. Primary collaborators: Dr. Arneil Reyes and Dr. Rong Cong.
Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR) Facility: Multi-frequency EMR systems and for DNP method development. Primary collaborators: Prof. Stephen Hill, Dr. Johan van Tol, and Dr. Tomas Orlando.
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore
Our Sandia partnership is with Dr. Mohana Shivanna, Dr. Vitalie Stavila, and Dr. Mark Allendorf of the Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics Group at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore. Using high-field EPR, we probe charge-transfer mechanisms and radical formation in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).