Educational Background:
B.Sc. from Presidency College (Calcutta, India) (1986)
M.Sc. from Calcutta University, India (1988)
Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (1994)
Professional Background:
Queen's University, Canada (1995 – 1997)
Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Spain, (1999 – 2000)
Instutut
fuer Festkoerper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden, Germany (2003 –
2004, 2006, 2007)
Important awards and fellowship of academies:
Awarded “Humboldt Research Fellowship” from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
Fellowship from the Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, Spain
UK-India Education and Research Initiative Award - 2008
Main area of work
Magnetic Nanomaterials
Amorphous Magnetic Materials
Magnetocaloric and Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Effect
Magnetic Non-Destructive Techniques
High Temperature Superconductivity
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
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Significant recent publications:
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S.
Chakraverty, S. Mitra, K. Mandal, P.M.G. Nambissan and S. Chatterjee,
“Positron annihiliation studies of some anomalous features of NiFe2O4
nanocrystals grown in SiO2” Physical Review B 71, (2005), 024115 –(1-8)
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K.
Mandal, Subarna Mitra and P. Anil Kumar, “Deviation from Bloch T3/2 law
in ferrite nanoparticles”, Europhysics Letters, 75, (2006), 618-623.
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K.
Mandal, S. Pan Mandal, M. Vazquez, S. Puerta and A. Hernando, “Giant
magnetoimpedance effect in a positive magnetostrictive glass-coated
amorphous microwire” – Physical Review B, 65, (2002), 064402.
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K.Mandal, D. Pal, N. Scheerbaum, J. Lynbina and O. Gutfleisch, "Effect of pressure on the magnetocatoric properties of nickel-rich Ni-Mn-Ga Heuster alloys, "Journal of AppliedPhysics 105 (2009) 073509.
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S. Mitra, S. Das, K. Mandal and S. Chandhuri, " Synthesis of alpha - Fe2O3 nanocrystals in its different morphological attributes : growth, mechanism, optical and magnetic properties, " Nanotechnology, 18 (2007) 275608.
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