Educational Background:
M.Sc. from Calcutta University, India (1987)
Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (1994)
Professional Background:
Queen´s University, Canada (July, 1995 – July, 1997)
Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Spain, (April 1999 – March 2000)
Instutut
für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden, Germany (July 2003 –
February 2004, May-July 2006, October – November 2007)
Important awards and fellowship of academies:
Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada
Fellowship from the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Spain
Awarded “Humboldt Research Fellowship” from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
“A
Study of Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals”, K. Mandal and D.L. Atherton,
Journal of Physics D: Appplied Physics, 31 (1998), 3211 selected as a
featured article of the journal in 1999
BRNS
(DAE) funded project “Characterization of magnetic materials by
non-destructive Barkhausen noise measurements (Reference no.
BRNS/2003/37/13)” has been selected among the best projects in
2006-2007 to be high lighted in the annual report of BRNS.
Main area of work
Magnetic Nanomaterials
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- Amorphous Magnetic Materials
- Magnetocaloric and Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Effect
- Magnetic Non-Destructive Techniques
- High Temperature Superconductivity
- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Significant recent publications:
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K.
Mandal, D. Pal, O. Gutfleisch, P. Kerschl and K.-H. Mueller,
“Magnetocaloric effect in reactively-milled LaFe11.57Si1.43Hy
intermetallic compounds” , Journal of Applied Physics, 102, (2007)
053906, (1-5).
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S.
Sinha, K. Mandal and B. Das, “Magnetization dynamics in wire-shaped
amorphous magnetic materials as probed by Barkhausen noise measurement”
, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 40, (2007) 2710-2715.
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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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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, S. Pan Mandal, M. Vázquez, S. Puerta and A. Hernando, “Giant
magnetoimpedance effect in a positive magnetostrictive glass-coated
amorphous microwire” – Physical Review B, 65, (2002), p.064402 (1-6).
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