2026-09-09
news A new term begins
The autumn term started this week, and Structure of Matter is running again, the annual third-year course at the Department of Natural Sciences, NSU.
Blog
Notes, news and occasional longer write-ups.
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2026-09-05
news A ride to Berdsk with former students
On 5 September we rode to Berdsk. This has become an annual outing with students who have already been through Structure of Matter, and it is a good sign that they still turn up for it once the exam is safely behind t...
2026-08-17
news
New preprint on arXiv: a 3-in-1 FPGA unit for pulsed EPR
Our preprint, “Highly Efficient 3-in-1 FPGA-Based Unit Combining an ADC, DAC, and Multichannel Pulse Generator for Pulsed EPR Spectroscopy” is now on arXiv. Check it out.
2026-08-11
news
New field controller ITC_FC on the X-band spectrometer
We have put a new field controller, ITC_FC, on our X-band pulsed EPR spectrometer, and we are now measuring how steadily it holds the magnetic field. The controller takes the field reading from an NMR magnetometer and...
Earlier posts
6- New paper published in J. Chem. Phys. Our article, “Determination of zero-field splitting in magnetically diluted cobalt(II)-based single molecule magnets using circular dichroism Fourier-transfo...
- New paper published in J. Open Res. Softw. Our article, “Atomize: A Modular Software for Control and Automation of Scientific and Industrial Instruments” was published online today, 07-11-2025, in Jou...
- New paper published in J. Chem. Phys. Our article, “Application of pulsed heating in time-resolved EPR spectroscopy for longitudinal relaxation measurements” was published online today, 25-10-202...
- New paper published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Our article, “Thermomagnetic Bistability, Colossal Negative Thermal Expansion, and THz-Heat-Induced Switching in Cu-Nitroxide Complex” was published online t...
- New paper published in Appl. Magn. Res. Our article, Monitoring S = 0 ↔ S = 2 Spin-State Switching in Fe(II) Complex Using FT EPR and Trityl Radical as Local Magnetic Field Sensor” was published on...
- New paper published in J. Appl. Phys. Our article, “Inter-Kramers electric quadrupole transitions in high-spin systems induced by resonant alternating inhomogeneous electric field” was published ...