The goal of this grant was to use a low temperature high magnetic field apparatus, coupled with a tunnel diode oscillator (TDO) penetration depth measurement system to investigate novel correlated electron phases in anisotropic superconductors. This grant resulted in three distinct scientific advances, the most important being the discovery of a inhomogeneous superconducting state first predicted over 40 years ago, and a number of broader impacts. A synopsis of the products of the grant is that

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... 4 papers were published and a experimental program was established that continues to produce more data. As an example we published a paper in 2012 with the most extensive experimental results on the subject of inhomogeneous superconductors ever published. The broader impacts are that two graduate students received PhDs as a result of this grant, and a major US high magnetic field facility was rebuilt. "Unusual phase diagram and FFLO signature in λ-(BETS)2GaCl4 from RF penetration depth measurements," ," Phys. Rev. B, 83, 224507 (2011). upper critical field and possible Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in the stoichiometric pnictide superconductor LiFeAs," Phys. Rev. B, 83, 060502(R) (2011). Rapid Communication