The team


Claude Pasquier
Professor

Metal-insulator transition and superconductivity
electric and thermal transport properties

Pawel Wzietek
Assistant Professor

Metal-insulator transition and superconductivity.
Molecular rotors
Nuclear Magnetic résonance (NMR) and ultrasonic attenuation.

Kang Wang
CNRS Researcher

Resistive memories. Photonic sytems exhibiting Dirac cones

Pascale Auban-Senzier
CNRS Research Engineer

High pressures, new molecular materials, superconductivity
, NMR

Hélène Raffy
Researcher Volunteer, retired from CNRS

Normal and superconducting states of oxydes thin films
electric transport properties

Publications

Das, B, Ghosh, S, Sengupta, S, Auban‐Senzier, P, Monteverde, M, Dalui, T K, Kundu, T, Saha, R A, Maity, S, Paramanik, R, Ghosh, A, Palit, M, Bhattacharjee, J K, Mondal, R, and Datta, S 2023 Emergence of a Non‐Van der Waals Magnetic Phase in a Van der Waals Ferromagnet. Small, 2302240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202302240
Beau, M, Jeannin, O, Fourmigué, M, Auban-Senzier, P, Pasquier, C, Alemany, P, Canadell, E, and Jeon, I-R 2023 Chalcogen bonding and variable charge transfer degree in two polymorphs of 1 : 1 conducting salts with segregated stacks. CrystEngComm, 25(21): 3189–3197. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CE00260H
Raffy, H, Li, Z Z, and Auban-Senzier, P 2022 Transport properties of very overdoped nonsuperconducting Bi 2 Sr 2 Cu O 6 + δ thin films. Physical Review B, 106(22): 224503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.224503
Bogdan, A, Moraru, I-T, Auban-Senzier, P, Grosu, I, Pop, F, and Avarvari, N 2022 Chiral Bis(tetrathiafulvalene)-1,2-cyclohexane-diamides. Molecules, 27(20): 6926. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27206926
Sengupta, S, Monteverde, M, Murani, A, Marrache-Kikuchi, C, Santander-Syro, A F, and Fortuna, F 2022 Density-tuned isotherms and dynamic change at the superconducting transition in a gate-controlled AlO x / SrTiO 3 heterostructure. Physical Review B, 105(12): 125112. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.125112
Olejniczak, I, Barszcz, B, Auban-Senzier, P, Jeschke, H O, Wojciechowski, R, and Schlueter, J A 2022 Charge-Ordering and Structural Transition in the New Organic Conductor δ′-(BEDT-TTF)2CF3CF2SO3. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(4): 1890–1900. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c09458
Beau, M, Jeannin, O, Fourmigué, M, Auban-Senzier, P, Barrière, F, and Jeon, I-R 2022 Oxidation-induced activation of chalcogen bonding in redox-active bis(selenomethyl)tetrathiafulvalene derivatives. CrystEngComm, 10.1039.D2CE01168A. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CE01168A
Izquierdo, M, Freitas, D C, Colson, D, Garbarino, G, Forget, A, Raffy, H, Itié, J-P, Ravy, S, Fertey, P, and Núñez-Regueiro, M 2021 Charge Order and Suppression of Superconductivity in HgBa2CuO4+d at High Pressures. Condensed Matter, 6(3): 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat6030025
Lizaire, M, Legros, A, Gourgout, A, Benhabib, S, Badoux, S, Laliberté, F, Boulanger, M-E, Ataei, A, Grissonnanche, G, LeBoeuf, D, Licciardello, S, Wiedmann, S, Ono, S, Raffy, H, Kawasaki, S, Zheng, G-Q, Doiron-Leyraud, N, Proust, C, and Taillefer, L 2021 Transport signatures of the pseudogap critical point in the cuprate superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 − x La x CuO 6 + δ. Physical Review B, 104(1): 014515. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.014515
Andueza, Á, Sevilla, J, Pérez-Conde, J, and Wang, K 2021 Shear based gap control in 2D photonic quasicrystals of dielectric cylinders. Optics Express, 29(14): 22159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.427235
Mroweh, N, Bogdan, A, Pop, F, Auban-Senzier, P, Vanthuyne, N, Lopes, E B, Almeida, M, and Avarvari, N 2021 Chiral Radical Cation Salts of Me-EDT-TTF and DM-EDT-TTF with Octahedral, Linear and Tetrahedral Monoanions. Magnetochemistry, 7(6): 87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry7060087
Wang, K 2021 Narrow electromagnetic beam transmission associated to the Dirac cones in a graphenelike photonic crystal. Physical Review B, 103(23): 235107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235107
Allain, M, Mézière, C, Auban-Senzier, P, and Avarvari, N 2021 Old Donors for New Molecular Conductors: Combining TMTSF and BEDT-TTF with Anionic (TaF6)1−x/(PF6)x Alloys. Crystals, 11(4): 386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11040386
Jovanović, V P, Raffy, H, Li, Z Z, Reményi, G, and Monceau, P 2021 High magnetic-field evolution of the in-plane angular magnetoresistance of electron-doped Sr 1 − x La x CuO 2 in the normal state. Physical Review B, 103(1): 014520. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.014520
Pop, F, Mézière, C, Allain, M, Auban-Senzier, P, Tajima, N, Hirobe, D, Yamamoto, H M, Canadell, E, and Avarvari, N 2021 Unusual stoichiometry, band structure and band filling in conducting enantiopure radical cation salts of TM-BEDT-TTF showing helical packing of the donors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(33): 10777–10786. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC01112J
Szirmai, P, Mézière, C, Bastien, G, Wzietek, P, Batail, P, Martino, E, Mantulnikovs, K, Pisoni, A, Riedl, K, Cottrell, S, Baines, C, Forró, L, and Náfrádi, B 2020 Quantum spin-liquid states in an organic magnetic layer and molecular rotor hybrid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(47): 29555–29560. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000188117
Mroweh, N, Auban-Senzier, P, Vanthuyne, N, Lopes, E B, Almeida, M, Canadell, E, and Avarvari, N 2020 Chiral Conducting Me-EDT-TTF and Et-EDT-TTF-Based Radical Cation Salts with the Perchlorate Anion. Crystals, 10(11): 1069. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10111069
Ashoka Sahadevan, S, Abhervé, A, Monni, N, Auban-Senzier, P, Cui, H, Kato, R, Mercuri, M L, and Avarvari, N 2020 Radical Cation Salts of Tetramethyltetrathiafulvalene (TM-TTF) and Tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene (TM-TSF) with Chlorocyananilate-Based Anions. Crystal Growth & Design, 20(10): 6777–6786. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00873
Katsumi, K, Li, Z Z, Raffy, H, Gallais, Y, and Shimano, R 2020 Superconducting fluctuations probed by the Higgs mode in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca Cu 2 O 8 + x thin films. Physical Review B, 102(5): 054510. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.054510
Mroweh, N, Mézière, C, Pop, F, Auban‐Senzier, P, Alemany, P, Canadell, E, and Avarvari, N 2020 In Search of Chiral Molecular Superconductors: κ‐[( S,S)‐DM‐BEDT‐TTF] (2) ClO(4) Revisited. Advanced Materials, 2002811. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002811
El-Ghayoury, A, Mézière, C, Simonov, S, Zorina, L, Auban-Senzier, P, Alemany, P, Canadell, E, and Batail, P 2020 Glycine Residue Twists HOMO···HOMO Interactions in a Molecular Conductor. Crystal Growth & Design, 20(5): 3546–3554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00394
Mroweh, N, Pop, F, Mézière, C, Allain, M, Auban-Senzier, P, Vanthuyne, N, Alemany, P, Canadell, E, and Avarvari, N 2020 Combining Chirality and Hydrogen Bonding in Methylated Ethylenedithio-Tetrathiafulvalene Primary Diamide Precursors and Radical Cation Salts. Crystal Growth & Design, 20(4): 2516–2526. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b01665
Chu, H, Kim, M-J, Katsumi, K, Kovalev, S, Dawson, R D, Schwarz, L, Yoshikawa, N, Kim, G, Putzky, D, Li, Z Z, Raffy, H, Germanskiy, S, Deinert, J-C, Awari, N, Ilyakov, I, Green, B, Chen, M, Bawatna, M, Cristiani, G, Logvenov, G, Gallais, Y, Boris, A V, Keimer, B, Schnyder, A P, Manske, D, Gensch, M, Wang, Z, Shimano, R, and Kaiser, S 2020 Phase-resolved Higgs response in superconducting cuprates. Nature Communications, 11(1): 1793. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15613-1
Revelli Beaumont, M, Faulmann, C, de Caro, D, Cazayous, M, Gallais, Y, Sacuto, A, Pasquier, C, Auban Senzier, P, Monteverde, M, Jacob, K, and Valade, L 2020 Reproducible nanostructuration of the superconducting κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 phase. Synthetic Metals, 261: 116310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2020.116310
Mroweh, N, Mézière, C, Allain, M, Auban-Senzier, P, Canadell, E, and Avarvari, N 2020 Conservation of structural arrangements and 3 : 1 stoichiometry in a series of crystalline conductors of TMTTF, TMTSF, BEDT-TTF, and chiral DM-EDT-TTF with the oxo-bis[pentafluorotantalate( v )] dianion. Chemical Science, 11(37): 10078–10091. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC03665J
Frąckowiak, A, Barszcz, B, Olejniczak, I, Tomasik, M, Jarzyniak, N, Świetlik, R, Auban-Senzier, P, Fourmigué, M, Jeannin, O, and Camerel, F 2020 Mixed valence trimers in cation radical salts of TMTTF with the planar bis(6-sulfo-8-quinolato) platinum complex [Pt(qS) 2 ] 2−. New Journal of Chemistry, 44(36): 15538–15548. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NJ03584J
Rodríguez-Fortea, A, Canadell, E, Wzietek, P, Lemouchi, C, Allain, M, Zorina, L, and Batail, P 2020 Nanoscale rotational dynamics of four independent rotators confined in crowded crystalline layers. Nanoscale, 12(15): 8294–8302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR00858C
Sahadevan, S A, Abhervé, A, Monni, N, Auban-Senzier, P, Cano, J, Lloret, F, Julve, M, Cui, H, Kato, R, Canadell, E, Mercuri, M L, and Avarvari, N 2019 Magnetic Molecular Conductors Based on Bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF) and the Tris(chlorocyananilato)ferrate(III) Complex. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(22): 15359–15370. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02404
Silva, R A L, Santos, I C, Gama, V, Lopes, E B, Auban-Senzier, P, Almeida, M, and Belo, D 2019 Tetrathiafulvalene and Tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene Salts with [M(dcdmp) 2 ] Anions (M = Au, Cu, and Ni): High Conductivity and Unusual Stoichiometries. Crystal Growth & Design, 19(11): 6493–6502. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00958
Wang, K 2019 Abnormal K -point dependent electromagnetic beam propagation in a graphenelike triangular metallic photonic structure. Physical Review B, 100(11): 115140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.115140
Mélin, R, Danneau, R, Yang, K, Caputo, J-G, and Douçot, B 2019 Engineering the Floquet spectrum of superconducting multiterminal quantum dots. Physical Review B, 100(3): 035450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.035450
Tisserond, É, Nilforoushan, N, Caputo, M, Alemany, P, Canadell, E, Khalil, L, Vobornik, I, Fujii, J, Das, P K, Mézière, C, Batail, P, Pouget, J-P, Pasquier, C, Marsi, M, and Monteverde, M 2019 Electronic structure of the α-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 surface by photoelectron spectroscopy. The European Physical Journal B, 92(4): 70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2019-90565-4
Mroweh, N, Auban-Senzier, P, Vanthuyne, N, Canadell, E, and Avarvari, N 2019 Chiral EDT-TTF precursors with one stereogenic centre: substituent size modulation of the conducting properties in the (R-EDT-TTF) 2 PF 6 (R = Me or Et) series. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7(40): 12664–12673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TC04243A
Sengupta, S, Tisserond, E, Linez, F, Monteverde, M, Murani, A, Rödel, T, Lecoeur, P, Maroutian, T, Marrache-Kikuchi, C, Santander-Syro, A F, and Fortuna, F 2018 Gate-tunable superconductivity at SrTiO 3 surface realized by Al layer evaporation. Journal of Applied Physics, 124(21): 213902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049363
Legros, A, Benhabib, S, Tabis, W, Laliberté, F, Dion, M, Lizaire, M, Vignolle, B, Vignolles, D, Raffy, H, Li, Z Z, Auban Senzier, P, Doiron-Leyraud, N, Fournier, P, Colson, D, Taillefer, L, and Proust, C 2018 Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates. Nature Physics, 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0334-2
Sahadevan, S A, Abhervé, A, Monni, N, Sáenz de Pipaón, C, Galán-Mascarós, J R, Waerenborgh, J C, Vieira, B J C, Auban-Senzier, P, Pillet, S, Bendeif, E-E, Alemany, P, Canadell, E, Mercuri, M L, and Avarvari, N 2018 Conducting Anilate-Based Mixed-Valence Fe(II)Fe(III) Coordination Polymer: Small-Polaron Hopping Model for Oxalate-Type Fe(II)Fe(III) 2D Networks. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(39): 12611–12621. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08032
Sedeki, A, Auban-Senzier, P, Yonezawa, S, Bourbonnais, C, and Jerome, D 2018 Influence of carrier lifetime on quantum criticality and superconducting T c of (TMTSF) 2 ClO 4. Physical Review B, 98(11). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.115111
Simonov, S, Zorina, L, Wzietek, P, Rodríguez-Fortea, A, Canadell, E, Mézière, C, Bastien, G, Lemouchi, C, Garcia-Garibay, M A, and Batail, P 2018 Static Modulation Wave of Arrays of Halogen Interactions Transduced to a Hierarchy of Nanoscale Change Stimuli of Crystalline Rotors Dynamics. Nano Letters, 18(6): 3780–3784. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00956
Le Gal, Y, Roisnel, T, Auban-Senzier, P, Bellec, N, Íñiguez, J, Canadell, E, and Lorcy, D 2018 Stable Metallic State of a Neutral-Radical Single-Component Conductor at Ambient Pressure. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(22): 6998–7004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b03714
Jeannin, O, Reinheimer, E W, Foury-Leylekian, P, Pouget, J-P, Auban-Senzier, P, Trzop, E, Collet, E, and Fourmigué, M 2018 Decoupling anion-ordering and spin-Peierls transitions in a strongly one-dimensional organic conductor with a chessboard structure, ( o -Me 2 TTF) 2 NO 3. IUCrJ, 5(3): 361–372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518004967
Wang, K 2018 Dirac cones in isogonal hexagonal metallic structures. Physical Review B, 97(12): 125146. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.125146
Rodríguez-Fortea, A, Kaleta, J, Mézière, C, Allain, M, Canadell, E, Wzietek, P, Michl, J, and Batail, P 2018 Asymmetric Choreography in Pairs of Orthogonal Rotors. ACS Omega, 3(1): 1293–1297. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b01580
Nguyen, V S, Mai, V H, Auban Senzier, P, Pasquier, C, Wang, K, Rozenberg, M J, Brun, N, March, K, Jomard, F, Giapintzakis, J, Mihailescu, C N, Kyriakides, E, Nukala, P, Maroutian, T, Agnus, G, Lecoeur, P, Matzen, S, Aubert, P, Franger, S, Salot, R, Albouy, P, Alamarguy, D, Dkhil, B, Chrétien, P, and Schneegans, O 2018 Direct Evidence of Lithium Ion Migration in Resistive Switching of Lithium Cobalt Oxide Nanobatteries. Small, 14(24): 1801038. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201801038
Henaff, R, Le Doudic, G, Pilette, B, Even, C, Fischbach, J-M, Bouquet, F, Bobroff, J, Monteverde, M, and Marrache-Kikuchi, C A 2018 A study of kinetic friction: The Timoshenko oscillator. American Journal of Physics, 86(3): 174–179. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5008862
Hachem, H, Xu, Z, Bellec, N, Jeannin, O, Auban-Senzier, P, Guizouarn, T, Fourmigué, M, and Lorcy, D 2018 Neutral, closed-shell nickel bis(2-alkylthio-thiazole-4,5-dithiolate) complexes as single component molecular conductors. Dalton Transactions, 47(18): 6580–6589. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8DT00818C
Filatre-Furcate, A, Roisnel, T, Fourmigué, M, Jeannin, O, Bellec, N, Auban-Senzier, P, and Lorcy, D 2017 Subtle Steric Differences Impact the Structural and Conducting Properties of Radical Gold Bis(dithiolene) Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 23(63): 16004–16013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703172
Ashoka Sahadevan, S, Monni, N, Abhervé, A, Auban-Senzier, P, Canadell, E, Mercuri, M L, and Avarvari, N 2017 Synthesis and Physical Properties of Purely Organic BEDT-TTF-Based Conductors Containing Hetero-/Homosubstituted Cl/CN-Anilate Derivatives. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(20): 12564–12571. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01994
Tisserond, E, Fuchs, J-N, Goerbig, M O, Auban-Senzier, P, Mézière, C, Batail, P, Kawasugi, Y, Suda, M, Yamamoto, H M, Kato, R, Tajima, N, and Monteverde, M 2017 Aperiodic quantum oscillations of particle-hole asymmetric Dirac cones. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 119(6): 67001. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/119/67001
Peng, W, Balédent, V, Chattopadhyay, S, Lepetit, M-B, Yahia, G, Colin, C V, Gooch, M J, Pasquier, C, Auban-Senzier, P, Greenblatt, M, and Foury-Leylekian, P 2017 Toward pressure-induced multiferroicity in PrMn 2 O 5. Physical Review B, 96(5): id.054418. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.054418
Alloul, H, Wzietek, P, Mito, T, Pontiroli, D, Aramini, M, Riccò, M, Itie, J P, and Elkaim, E 2017 Mott Transition in the A 15 Phase of Cs 3 C 60 : Absence of a Pseudogap and Charge Order. Physical Review Letters, 118(23): 237601. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.237601

Former members

Denis JéromeRetired from Research director at CNRS
Founder of the team in the 1970’s. Head of the team up to 2005
One of the discoverer of Organic Superconductivity in 1979
Member of the French Academy of Science
Alec Moradpour Retired from Research director at CNRS
He worked in the field of organic chemistry in the laboratory. He ended his career in the group. He passed away in 2013
Miguel MonteverdeAssistant professor at Paris-Saclay University.
He joined the team in 2009. He joined the mesoscopic Physics group in 2020

Alumni

Where are they now??

Position in the teamactual position (last known!)intermediate position
C.EssghaierPhD (2016/2021)Professeure dans un lycéePostdoc USA
E.TisserondPhD (2015/2018)
(Bourse l’Or�al-UNESCO pour les femmes et la Science en 2017)
Professeure en classes préparatoiresEngineer Saint-Gobain (Aubervilliers)
F.NavarinPhD
(2012/2015)
Professeur en classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (Evreux)
W.Kaddour PhD co-tutelle F/Tunisia
(2010/2013)
Deputy Director at Centre d’Optométrie (Bures/Yvette)Teacher Institut at Centre d’Optométrie (Bures/Yvette)
N.Kangpost-doctorant
(2007-2011)
Beijing University (China)
S.Populoh PhD Marie-Curie
(2006-2009)
Ingénieur ABB (Suisse)Post-doc EMPA Dübendorf (Switzerland)
B.Salamehpost-doc
(2006-2007)
Kuwait University Tafila University (Jordan)
N.Joo PhD co-tutelle F/Tunisia
(2002/2006)
Engineer CEA SaclayCDD Musée CNAM (Paris), CDI Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris)
C.Colin PhD
(2003/2005)
Assistant professor Grenoble-Alpes University Post-doc Gröningen (Netherlands)
Y.Piskunovpost-doc
(2002/2003)
Russia
P.Limelette PhD
(2000/2003)
MCF Université de Tourspost-doc CRISMAT Caen
N.E.Akaaboune PhD
(1999/2002)
S.Lefebvre PhD co-tutelle F/Canada
(1997/2001)
Teacher in Québec (Canada)
J.Moser PhD
(1996/1999)
Engineer ChinaAssociate researcher (Barcelona, Spain), post-docs (Germany, Italy, USA)
B.Simovic PhD
(1996/1999)
JPMorgan (London, UK) Post-doc ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
C.Pham-Phu PhD
(1995/1998)
S.Friemel PhD
(1994/1997)
Engineer in Germany
H.Mayaffre PhD
(1992/1996)
Assistant professor Grenoble-Alpes University
L.Balicas PhD
(1992/1995)
Professor NHMFL, Thallahassee, Florida (USA)Researcher NHMFL, Thallahassee, Florida (USA)