Major Research Projects:
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Project
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Major research facilities
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Physical Progress (High lights)
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2002-07 (Xth Plan)
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Advanced Magnetic Materials at Low Temperatures and High Field
Project report (PDF Link)
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1) Pulsed Laser Deposition 2) Superconducting Magnet (5-14T) 3) Liquid Helium plant (20-40 lts/hr). 4) MPMS SQUID magnetometer
Facilities (Link)
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1) 137 Papers in referred Int. Journals 2) Ph.D awarded: (***) 3) Int. Conf. on Magnetic Materials (ICMM-2007) (AIP Conf. Proc. vol.1003, (2008))
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2007-12 (XIth Plan)
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Physics of Complex System Under Extreme Conditions
Project report :
11th plan PCS project
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1) AFM-MFM 2) DC-RF sputtering 3) XRD (18kW, 15-1200K) 4) PPMS (7-9T) 5) Room Temp. Bore magnet (9 T) 6) SQUID VSM (7T) 7) Furnaces (1000-1200C) 8) Field Sweep magnet-NMR (9T) 9) High pressure- Hydrostatic (3GPa) 10) DAC (20GPa)
Facilities (Link)
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1) 130 in referred Int. Journals 2) Ph.D. awarded ( ***) 3) MRSI medal 4) INSA young scientist 5) ICMM-2010 (AIP Conf. Proc. vol.1347, (2011)
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2012-17 (XIIth Plan)
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Condensed Matter Physics: Interaction & Dynamics
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2007-12 :Salient Scientific/Technical features of the Project of Physics of Complex System under extreme conditions 2007-12
[1] Experimental investigations of super-hard materials, composite magnets, negative TCR & negative thermal expansion materials at high pressure with a focus on isotropic cubic materials. Experimental investigations of exchange coupling between grains and dipoles in composite magnets consisting of soft and hard phases for high energy product, (BH)max, material.
[2] Time dependent universal conductance fluctuation for interacting electronic systems.
[3] Magnetism in linear chain spin trimers/group IV clathrates.
[4] Physics of transition metals focusing on rare earth containing systems for giant magnetostriction, spin relaxation at the ferrmagnetor-superconductor interface Magnetostriction, thermal expansion and thermal conductivity.
[5] Magnetoresistive and Magnetocaloric materials focusing on rare earth compounds.
[6] Theroretical studies in relevance to above focusing on Polaron Physics and Manganites, Bose Einstein Condensation (BEC) and Organic Superconductivity, Nanoscopic and Mesoscopic Systems, Tools for Many-body Problems.