Educational Background:
B.Sc.(Physics), Calcutta University - 1962
M.Sc.(Physics), Calcutta University - 1964
M.S. (Physics), Carnegie Inst. of Tech, USA - 1967
Ph.D., Carnegie- Mellon University - 1971
Professional Background:
Project Physicist in Carnegie-Mellon University
Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Professor, Head (Physics Dept.),
Member (Board of Governors, IIT/K) in IIT/K
Research Professor in S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Recognition:
Membership of professional organization/societies
- Indian Physics Society (IPA),
- American Physical Society (APS).
Referee of Physical Review & Physical Review Letters since 1983.
National/International awards, prizes, medals:
Alexdander von Humboldt Fellow, Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe, West Germany,
1981-83; Univ. of Giessen, summer of 1994; Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe, summer of 2004.
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 1997.
Visiting Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, Jan-Dec, 1999.
Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) of Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science of the Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (DST), 2001-2004
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- Member, Expert Committee on “The Establishment of Low Temperature and High Magnetic Field Facilities: Phase II” of the Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (DST), 2004-2007.
Significant recent publications:
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98. Extraordinary Hall effect in self-assembled epitaxial Ni crystallites embedded in a TiN matrix, P. Khatua, T. K. Nath, and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 73, 064408 (2006).
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Swift heavy ion induced mixing in Fe/Ni multilayer, D. K. Avasthi, S. K. Srivastava, R. Kumar, A. Gupta, R. S. Patel, and A. K. Majumdar, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics B 243, 304 (2006).
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Scaling law and its universality in the anomalous Hall effect of giant magnetoresistive Fe/Cr multilayers, P. Khatua, A. K. Majumdar, D. Temple, and C. Pace, Phys. Rev. B 73, 094421 (2006).
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Correlation between giant magnetoresistance and anomalous Hall effect – A realization of the existence of quantum well in Fe/Cr multilayers, P. Khatua and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 74, 092405 (2006).
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Relaxation of thermo-remanent magnetization in Fe-Cr GMR multilayers, R. S. Patel, A.K. Majumdar, and A. K. Nigam, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 309, 256 (2007). Available online 14 August 2006.
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Role of heterostructures and multiple magnetic phases in the low-field magnetization of Fe- Cr GMR multilayers, R. S. Patel, A. K. Majumdar, A. K. Nigam, D. Temple and C. Pace, J. Appl. Phys. 100, 123914 (2006).
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