Dr. Chandana Rath n

      Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) 

        School of Materials Science and Technology

      Banaras Hindu University

      Varanasi 221 005

    

      Email: chandanarath@yahoo.com, rathchandana@gmail.com

     Tel & Fax: +(91)-542-236 8707 (Off.);  09451058153 (Mob)

                                        

   

 


      Biography

Dr. (Mrs.) Chandana Rath is an Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Science and Technology. She has done her MSc, MPhil and PhD in Physics from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. She was a post doctoral fellow in Department of Physics, University of Girona, Spain for 2 years. She joined School of Materials Science and Technology in October 2004.  
 

      Research Interests

Nano magnetics,  Doped semiconductors, magnetic insulators, nanomaterials, Ion Irradiation               

Selective Publications:

  

1.      Magnetic Properties of nanoparticles of Cobalt Chromite

      Chandana Rath, P. Mohanty and A. Banerjee

      J. Magn. Magn. Mater 323 (2011) 1698-1702.

2.      Antiferro to superparamagnetic transition on Mn doping in NiO

      P. Mallick, Chandana Rath, A. Banerjee and N. C. Mishra

      Solid State Communication 150 (2010) 1342.     

3.   Grain growth and crack formation in NiO thin films by swift heavy ion irradiation,

      P. Mallick, R. Biswal, Chandana Rath, D.C. Agarwal, D.K. Avasthi, D. Kanjilal, P.V. Satyam and N.C. Mishra

      Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods B 268 (2010) 470-475.

4.      Appearance of Superparamagnetic Phase below Curie Temperature in Cobalt Chromite Nanoparticles

      Lawerence Kumar, P. Mohanty, T. Shripathi and Chandana Rath

      Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters 1 (2009) 199-203.

5.      Anomalous x-ray diffraction peak broadening and lattice strains in Zn1-xCoxO dilute magnetic semiconductor

      Chandana Rath, P. Mallick, Dhananjai Pandey, D. Sa, A. Banerjee and N.C. Mishra

      J. Phys. Condense Matter 21 (2009) 075801-075805

6.      Oxygen vacancy induced structural phase transformation in TiO2 nanoparticles

      Chandana Rath, P. Mohanty, A. C. Pandey and N.C. Mishra

      J. Physics D: Applied Physics 42 (2009) 205101-205107.

7.   Si3N4 single-crystal nanowires grown from silicon micro and nanoparticles near the threshold of passive oxidation.

      J. Farjas, Chandana Rath, A. Pinyol, P. Roura and E. Bertran

      Applied Physics Letter 87 (2005), 192111

8.   Calorimetry of dehydrogenation and dangling-bond recombination in several hydrogenated amorphous silicon materials.

      P. Roura, J. Farjas, Chandana Rath, J. Serra-Miralles, E. Bertrana and P.Roca i Cabarrocas,

      Physics Review B 73 (2006) 085203.

9.   Appearance of superparamagnetism on heating nanosize Mn0.65Zn0.35Fe2O4 Chandana Rath, N.C. Mishra, S. Anand, R.P. Das, K.K. Sahu, Chandan Upadhyay and H. C. Verma

     Appl. Phys. Letter 76(4) (2000) 475-477.

10.  Microstructure dependent coercivity in monodispersed hematite particles

      Chandana Rath, K.K. Sahu, S.D. Kulkarni, S. Anand, S.K. Date and R.P. Das, N.C. Mishra,

      Appl. Phys. Letter 75 (1999) 4171-4173.


      Patent


                   Patents: An improved process for preparation of Mn-Zn Ferrites.

              C. Rath, K.K. Sahu, N.C. Mishra, S. Anand and R.P. Das

       Honors & Awards:
        Young Research Award
-1998 (Material Science) in International Union of  Materials Research Society IUMRS-ICA (Bangalore) India.


 
     Sponsored Projects:


1.       Size dependent electric, magnetic and magnetoelectric coupling behaviour in Chromite Spinels : Department of Science and Technology 2011

2.       Evolution of Magnetism with Oxygen Deficiency in Cobalt Doped TiO2 Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, 2007.

      3.   Synthesis and characterization of thin film and sheets of ferrite nanocomposites: Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University , 2005.

    


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