TITLE: The World of Organic Metals

SPEAKER: Dr. Jeremy Qualls,

Over the last twenty years, significant progress has been made in the field of carbon based electronic systems. Most of the interest has been fueled by the prediction of room temperature superconductivity, and the fact that "organic" systems can be tailored to exhibit a wide variety of electronic materials: including insulators, semiconductors, metals, and superconductors. To date the highest transition temperature for an organic superconductor is 40°K for Cs₃C₆₀. However, a wide range of exotic new electronic transport phenomena has been realized in many organic compounds in the normal state. A brief introduction to this diverse and dynamic field will be given, followed by a look into some of the more interesting electronic phenomena such as angular dependent magnetoresistance oscillations and density wave formations.