Spinel Ferrite Materials: Fundamentals, Progress, and Applications

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Gagan Kumar Bhargava is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Bahra University Waknaghat India and adjunct faculty at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) Dehradun India. His current research interests cover the synthesis of nanomaterials for antenna applications EMI shielding applications electromagnet applications and cancer treatment. Dr. Pankaj Sharma received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from JUIT Waknaghat India and is serving as Professor in Applied Science Department NITTTR Chandigarh. Prior to joining NITTTR he has worked for more than 12 years in the Department of Physics & Materials Science Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat at various positions. He is an experimentalist by inclination and his research interests include the development of materials in 0-D 1-D and 2-D for various optoelectronic thermoelectric and biomedical applications. Few materials of recent interest include ferrites chalcogenides polymers and dilute magnetic semiconductors. He has published more than 125 research articles in SCI/Scopus index journals among these 100 research papers in SCI indexed journals. He has Published 5 book chapters and 04 review papers. He has contributed more than 50 articles in various conferences. Dr Sharma has delivered more than 50 expert lectures in conferences/workshops/faculty development programmers etc. He has executed 02 government sponsored projects. He has successfully supervised 5 research scholars to earn their PhD degree. He is senior member of IEEE founder member & joint secretary of Materials Research Society of India- Himachal Pradesh India Chapter. He is also serving as Member of editorial board of two international journals. Dr. Sagar E. Shirsath has completed his PhD in Physics from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad India. In 2020 2021 and 2022 he listed in the ranking of scientist of top 2% by Stanford University USA. His research is mainly focused on nanostructured materials magnetism and magnetic materials ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials spintronics electro/magneto-caloric and multiferroics materials. Till date he has published more than 220 research papers in reputed journals including; Nano Letters Nanoscale Horizons Journal of Materials Chemistry A Nanoscale Applied Physics Letters Scripta Materilia Scientific Reports etc. There are 10 book chapters and 2 books to his credit. As on July 2021 his research papers attracted a total citations of >8000 with an h-index of 55 and i-10 index of 140. He is also serving as an editorial board member of > 11. He is editor of Nano (IF: 1.57 World Scientific publisher) and also serving as a guest editor for Nanomaterials (IF: 5.7 MDPI publisher) Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials (IF: 3.09). He reviewed for more than 75 research journals and thus listed as a top 1% reviewer by Publons. He delivered scientific invited talks at many international conferences held at USA Taiwan Germany Japan Australia France etc. In January 2012 he received the prestigious and competitive Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) post-doctoral fellowship award. During 2012-2014 he carried out his JSPS postdoctoral research in the Department of Information Engineering Shinshu University Nagano Japan. During 2017-2019 he worked as a Research Fellow at School of Materials Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney Australia. Currently while working as a Lecturer in Vivekanand Science College Aurangabad MS India he is also affiliated to University of New South Wales Sydney Australia as a Visiting Fellow. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar is currently working as Professor and Head at Department of Physics Chandigarh University. He has received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Hyderabad in the field of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. His research interests include Interplay of Superconductivity and Magnetism in bulk and low-dimensional materials. During the career he remained Visiting Fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai India and worked as Visiting Scientist at UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in basic Sciences Mumbai India. He has published more than 35 research papers in peer reviewed International Journals of repute like Physical Review Letters Physical Review B Applied Physics letters Journal of Applied Physicsand conference proceedings. He has more than 12 years of Teaching Research and administrative experience. Dr. Sumit Bhardwaj 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 are in 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 and also edited 1 book. He has supervised two M. Tech. dissertations and currently he is supervising three Ph.D. students. He has also edited 2 books.