Although his main work there was on
electronic phase transitions, he benefitted from the stimulating scientific environment to pursue interests in amorphous magnetism and magnetic order in natural minerals, with the first demonstration of random spin freezing due to frustrated antiferromagnetic interactions.
A broad class of
electronic phase transitions in individual nanomaterials can now be studied directly using 4D - EM.
Not exact matches
These are
electronic structures of Ce monopnictides which observed by soft X-ray angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and its topological
phase transition.
A joint research group succeeded in observing the topological
phase transition in which a material changes to the topological
electronic phase by using soft X-rays, light suitable for determining the topology of materials by their substances rather than by their appearance.
Such electron doping - driven structural
phase transitions at the 2 - D limit is not only important in fundamental physics; it also opens the door for new
electronic memory and low - power switching in the next generation of ultra-thin devices.»
Below a
phase transition of 810 kelvin (about 540 degrees C or 1000 degrees F),
electronic orbitals spontaneously reorganize and the lattice assumes an accordion structure.
Saxena has an impressive list of international collaborations, invited talks, publications, and service on advisory boards, and was elected an American Physics Society Fellow in 2014 «for foundational contributions to
phase transitions in functional materials and nonlinear excitations in low - dimensional
electronic materials.»
Avadh Saxena has shown how materials modeling methods can be used to answer many key questions in materials science, thereby becoming an international authority in
phase transitions in both functional materials and nonlinear excitations in low - dimensional
electronic materials.