| Description: | [CAFM Lecture] Dr.Bhavtosh Bansal (IISER Kolkata) -- (Thermo-)Dynamics of superheating and supercooling around a metal-insulator transition |
| Date: | Thursday, Sep 15, 2016 |
| Time: | 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | 110, Lecture Hall Complex |
| Details: | For more than 50 years, vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) has been the archetype of a material showing metal-to-insulator transition that is driven by electron correlations. This phase transition is of first order with large latent heat and thermal hysteresis. We have studied this transition from a thermodynamics perspective and explored how and when one phase transforms into another as the temperature is raised or lowered across the phase transition boundary with precisely controlled rates. |
| Calendar: | Seminar Calendar (entered by arun.ds) |