Piligkos Group

My group investigates the suitability of coordination complexes based on lanthanide and transition metal ions for use within quantum information technologies. To this purpose we synthesise new coordination complexes and study their structures and electronic properties by a variety of thermodynamic and spectroscopic techniques, with emphasis on magnetic properties. We are especially interested in coherent and incoherent static and dynamic magnetic properties. We also develop software for the modeling of these.

By synthesising derivatives of such complexes we rationalise how a particular molecular design can optimise the dynamic magnetic properties of our complexes.

Further, we also develop protocols for the transfer of these coordination complexes from the solid state to surfaces via, in general, solution chemistry methods. This is a key step for the integration of molecular magnetic materials in quantum information devices.