Molecular Magnets

Molecular magnetism is a highly interdisciplinary research field linking Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. It does offer a huge potential to synthesize nanoscale magnetic systems for technological applications. The rich variety of chemical synthesis also allows to study fundamental questions, e.g. mechanisms of ferro- or antiferromagnetic interaction in molecular systems or the examination of static and dynamic magnetic properties of complex and frustrated low dimensional spin systems.

Our aim is to exploit the static and dynamic magnetic properties of multi center spin clusters and one-dimensional spin systems with additional degrees of freedom which are specifically found in molecular magnetism.  To address these issues we employ tunable high-field ESR-spectroscopy in combination with the measurements of the static magnetic properties.

The unique combination of high frequencies up to 1 THz and extremely strong magnetic fields up to 60 Tesla enables to explore the spectrum of the electronic energy states and to probe  fundamental low-energy excitations in this class of materials.