Abstract: The invention relates to a method of authenticating an object by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, the method being characterized in that at least one authenticating substance is added to the object, said substance having an EPR peak whose width is not greater than about 1.5 gauss, with the spectroscopy being performed in a static field of an amplitude such that the substance has a resonance frequency in the radio-frequency domain, and with the width of the EPR peak of the substance being used as a criterion for discrimination.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic material with a very narrow electronic spin resonance (ESR) line. This material is formed by a 1, 2, 7, 8-tetrahydrocyclopentataperylene salt which may have, advantageously, undergone a heat treatment. The material can be applied to the fabrication of probes for gaussmeters and magnetometers.

Abstract: Microcircuits composed of a plurality of alternating conducting and insulating regions are formed in a substrate of an organic quasi-unidimensional conductor such as .DELTA..sup.2,2 bi-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-diselenolylidene upon irradiation of the substrate with a precise beam of electrons having an energy of at least 1 keV, preferably at least 8 keV, which forms the insulating regions. When exposed to cryogenic temperatures the non-irradated conducting regions become super conducting. Using electron beam irradiations, sub-micronic resolution as low as 100 .ANG. can be achieved. Microcircuits having Josephson junctions and superconducting quantum interference devices are described.

Abstract: A process for increasing the critical supraconductive temperature of the organic molecular crystalline compound (TMTSF).sub.2 X in which TMTSF is di-2,2'-bi-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-diselenol and X is C1O.sub.4, PF.sub.6, TaF.sub.6, SbF.sub.6, AsF.sub.6 or ReO.sub.4 comprising cross-linking the chains of the crystalline compound with at least one metal selected from gold, silver, aluminum, lead, indium, gallium or selenium.