Frontiers in Magnetic Materials

Dr A. V. Narlikar took his Ph.D. in superconductivity at Cambridge University. He has worked in the field of superconductivity and nanostructures for more than 45 years. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (India) and Indian National Science Academy. He has been awarded the advanced doctoral degree Sc.D. by Cambridge University. He has held many visiting appointments at various countries, including Lady Davis Professor in Israel, Wihuri Visiting Professor in Finland, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Senior Visiting Fellow in UK, and FAPESP Senior Visiting Fellow in Brazil. Presently, he is a senior scientist of the Indian National Science Academy working at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research at Indore.

Modern Methods for Investigating Magnetism.- Probing Magnetic Phases in Different Systems using Linear and Non Linear Susceptibility.- Transmission Electron Microscopy Study on Manganese Oxides.- Single Crystals of Bilayer Manganites.- Gutzwiller-Correlated Wave Functions: Application to Ferromagnetic Nickel.- Chemistry of Halfmetallic and Related Cation-Ordered Double Perovskites.- Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors.- Unconventional Magnetism in Carbon Based Materials.- Orbital and Spin Order in the Triangular S=1/2 Layered Compound (LI,NA)NIO2.- Structures and Electromagnetic Properties of the A-site Ordered Perovskite Manganite.- The Limits to Spin-Polarization in Finite-Temperature Half-Metallic Ferromagnets.- Layered Cobalt Oxides as a Thermoelecric Material.- Commensurate and Incommensurate Magnetism in Layered Antiferromagnets.- Magnetism in Highly Anisotropic Borates: Experiment and Theory.- Metal-Insulator Transition and Magnetoresistance in Manganite Thin Films: Lattice Strain and Disorder Effects.- Magnetism of Interacting Two-Dimensional Nanostructures.- Surface and Interface Magnetism on the Atomic Scale.- Magneto-Superconductivity of Rutheno-Cuprates.- Superconductivity and Magnetism in Ladder and Chain Compounds.- An Experimental Realization of the Shastry-Sutherland Model.- Collective Spin and Charge Excitations in (Sr,La)13?xCaxCu23O31 Quantum Spin Ladders.- Electronic Properties of ?-NaV2O2.- Collective Magnetic Excitations in SrCu2(BO3)2.- Magnetic and Charge Correlations in La2?x?yNdySrxCuO3: Raman Scattering Study.