Ferrites and Multiferroics: Fundamentals to Applications (Engineering Materials)

This book highlights the fundamentals of ferrites and multiferroic materials with special attention to their structure, types, and properties. It presents a comprehensive survey about ferrite and multiferroic materials, in areas significant to research and development in academia as well as in industry. The book discusses various types of methods applied for their synthesis and characterizations.

This book is concerned with the fascinating class of materials with the promise for wide-ranging applications, including electromagnets, magnetic fluid hyperthermia, antenna applications, memory devices, switching circuits, bio-medical applications, actuators, magnetic field sensors and water purification, etc.

Dr. Gagan Kumar Bhargava is currently working as an Professor at the Department of Physics, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. His current research interests are synthesis of nanomaterials for antenna, EMI shielding, electromagnet and bio-medical applications. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience. Before joining the Chandigarh University, he was the Head of the Applied Science Department at Green Hills Group of Institutes, Solan, India and also served as an Associate Professor at IEC University, Solan,India. He has published more than 50 research papers in different peer-reviewed international journals and 6 book chapters. He has guided 2 Ph.D’s, 1 M.Phil and 12 M.Sc. dissertations. He was the former Editorial Board Member of American Journalof Nanosciences and acted as Editor for American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings in 2018 for AMDFA-2018.
Dr. Sumit Bhardwaj is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India. He has obtained his M.Tech. degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Thapar University, India and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India. His current research interests arein the field of ferrite, multiferroic and composite materials. He has more than 12 years of research and teaching experience. Before joining to Chandigarh University, he has worked at Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh, India. He has published more than 23 research papers in different peer-reviewed international journals and 3 book chapters. He has supervised two M.Tech. dissertations, and currently he is supervising three Ph.D. students. 
Dr. Mahavir Singh is a Professor at the Department of Physics and Dean Physical Science Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. He has more than 30 years of teaching experience.He remains head of the department during 2007-2009, 2015and Dean Engineering Himachal Pradesh University 2017-2018. He was Common Wealth Fellow, UK (2006-2007), Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, University of Dundee, UK (2006-2007), Visiting Professor at, Faculty of Engineering University De Bretagne Occidentale, Brest France (2007-2008) and Vice Chancellor at IEC University, Solan, India (2015-17). He was awarded with 100 Most Influential Vice Chancellor Award 2016 by World Education Congress, Global Achiever Award 2014 by Indian Heritage Institute and Calcutta Bharat Excellence Award 2015 from Friendship Forum New Delhi. He has authored book chapter Complex magneticnanostructure (Springer), The Basis of Nanomagnetism: An Overview of Exchange Bias and Spring Magnets CRC Press, more than 5 textbooks on different areas of physics. He has published more than 190 research papers in different peer-reviewed international journals and about 100 Invited lectures delivered in International conferences. He has guided 23 Ph.D. students and evaluated 60 Ph.D. thesis.He was among Top 2% Scientist Globally as per Stanford University USA 2020 lists.
Dr. Khalid Mujasam Batoo is an Associate Professor at King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has authored more than 145 research papers published in peer-reviewed Journals of Internationalcommendation and conference papers. He is currently serving as the editorial board member of more than 13 international Journals. Among his various research interests include the study of magnetic nanomaterials, graphene materials, solar cells, batteries, e-textiles, magnetic tunnel Junctions and spintronic materials with an emphasis to understand micro and nano-structural properties of these materials. He has authored several book chapters published by Bentham Science Publishers and Materials Research foundation.