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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2025:

"Evolution of Spin-Glass Phase in Antiferromagnetic Mn2FeAl1−xSix Heusler Alloys" 

S Saha, AK Khorwal, Y Bitla, AK Patra

Phys. Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters in press (2025)

"Impact of Ce Doping on Structural, Dielectric, Electrical, and Magnetic Features of Cu‑Co Spinel Nanoferrites"

​Sudhir Minz, Ajit K. Patra,  S. K. Rout, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Banarji Behera

Journal of Electronic Materials in press (2025)

Observation of three-dimensional Ising to uniaxial dipolar crossover in a double exchange ferromagnet

​Mukesh Verma, Abhinav Kumar Khorwal, GA Basheed, Ajit K Patra, SN Kaul, Yugandhar Bitla

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 629, 173323 (2025)

2024:

"Ferrimagnetic hexagonal MnCuGe Heusler alloy with a low-temperature spin-glass state"                                        AK Khorwal, S Vishvakarma, S Saha, D Patra, A Singh, S Saha, Surajit Saha, V Srinivas, Ajit K Patra                    

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.149 (2024)

"Magnetic critical phenomena and low temperature re-entrant spin-glass features of Al2MnFe Heusler alloy"

AK Khorwal, S Saha, M Verma, L Saini, S Kaushik, Y Bitla, Ajit K Patra

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02149 (2024)

"Signatures of nearly compensated magnetism and spin glass behavior in highly frustrated β-Mn-type Mn50Fe25+ xAl25− x Heusler alloys"

AK Khorwal, S Saha, AV Lukoyanov, AK Patra

The Journal of Chemical Physics 160, 114705 (2024)

"Structural and magnetic properties of Mn50Fe25Al5Si20 alloy"

S Saha, S Vishvakarma, AK Khorwal, Y Bitla, AK Patra

AIP Conference Proceedings 2995, 020176 (2024)

"Magnetic relaxation of polycrystalline Mn1. 5Fe1. 5Al alloy"

AK Khorwal, S Vishvakarma, S Dash, Y Bitla, M Vasundhara, AK Patra

AIP Conference Proceedings 2995, 020173 (2024)

"Observation of weak ferromagnetism in the antiferromagnetic host and large electronic heat capacity in β-Mn-type structured Mn3Al alloy"

S Dash, M Vasundhara, AK Patra

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 589, 171474 (2024)

2023:

"In-field critical behaviour of β-Mn type Co7Zn7Mn6 skyrmion-host"

Pardeep, Y Bitla, AK Patra, GA Basheed

Physica B: Condensed Matter 654, 414669 (2023)

"Chiral-fluctuations mediated helical to paramagnetic phase transition and scaling study in β-Mn type Co8Zn8Mn4 chiral magnet"

Pardeep, Lalita, Y Bitla, S Saha, AK Patra, GA Basheed

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 35, 175801 (2023)

"The Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Heusler Alloys Mn2 –xFe1 +xAl (x = –0.5, 0, 0.5, 1)"

EI Shreder, AV Lukoyanov, RD Mukhachev, AN Filanovich, S Dash, A K Patra, M. Vasundhara

Physics of Metals and Metallography 124, 245-251 (2023)

"Energy Spectrum and Optical Absorption of Mn100 –хAlх (x = 20, 30) Compounds with the β-Mn Structure"

YV Knyazev, AV Lukoyanov, YI Kuz’min, S Dash, AK Patra, M. Vasundhra

Inorganic Materials 59, 26-31 (2023)

2022:

"Enhancement of room-temperature magnetoresistance in polyvinyl acetate encapsulated Fe3O4 nanoparticles"

S Roy, HR Nikhita, GV Varshini, AK Patra, RB Gangineni, S Angappane

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 557, 169468 (2022)

"Metastable skyrmion phase stabilized in wider T–H region of β-Mn type Co7Zn7Mn6 chiral magnet"

Pardeep, Y Bitla, AK Patra, R Pathak, A Bhattacharya, GA Basheed

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 34, 365801 (2022)

"Evidence for canonical spin glass behaviour in polycrystalline Mn1.5Fe1.5Al Heusler alloy"

Abhinav Kumar Khorwal, Nancy, Shubhra Dash, Arun Kumar, A.V. Lukoyanov, E.I. Shreder, Yugandhar Bitla, M. Vasundhara, Ajit K. Patra

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 546, 168752 (2022)

2021:

“Electronic Structure and Spectral Characteristics of the Mn3Al Compound"

Yu. V. Knyazev, A V Lukoyanov, Yu. I. Kuz’min, S. Dash, A. K. Patra, M Vasundhara

Phys. Met. and Metallogr+ 122,  954–959 (2021)

"Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Heusler Alloy Mn1.5Fe1.5Al"

E. I. Shreder, A. V. Lukoyanov, A. A. Makhneva, Yu. I. Kuzmina, Shubhra Dash, Ajit K. Patra, M. Vasundhara

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 133, 4, (2021)

“Unveiling the magnetic and transport properties of La0.5Sr0.5Co1-xVxO3-δ (x = 0, 0.01, 0.02 and 0.1)”

Nancy, B. Poojitha, R. Shukla, M. Vasundhara, U.P. Mohammed Rasi, R.B. Gangineni, S.C. Sahu, R.J. Choudhary, Yugandhar Bitla, Ajit K. Patra

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 530, 167851 (2021)

2020:

"Structural stability and magnetic properties Mn2FeAl alloy with a β-Mn structure"

Shubhra Dash, A. V. Lukoyanov, Nancy, Durgamadhab Mishra, U. P.  Mohammed Rasi, R. B. Gangineni, M. Vasundhara, Ajit K. Patra,

 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 513, 167205 (2020)

"Spin-phonon coupling in Mn-Bi co-doped SmFeO3: An experimental study"

​​Nancy, Bommareddy Poojitha, R. Shukla, R. Dhaka, S. Dash, S. Sarkar, S.R. Barman, P.D. Babu, S.C. Sahoo, R.J. Choudhary, Surajit Saha, Ajit K. Patra

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Volume 513, 167094 (2020)

"Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of the Mn2CrAl Heusler Alloy"

E I Shreder, A V Lukoyanov, A A Makhnev, Shubhra Dash, A Patra, M Vasundhara

Phys. Met. and Metallogr+ 121, 532 (2020)

"Structural, dielectric and magnetic properties of Bi–Mn doped SmFeO3"

Nancy, R. Shukla, R. Dhaka, S. Dash, S. Sarkar, P.D. Babu, S.C. Sahoo, R.J. Choudhary, Banarji Bahera, Ajit K. Patra Ceramic International Volume 46, 8730-8744 (2020)

"Effects of Energetic Ion Irradiation on β-Ga2O3 Thin Films"

Saurabh Yadav, Shubhra Dash, A K Patra, G R Umapathy, S Ojha, Shiv P Patel, R Singh, Y S Katharria,

ECS J. Solid State SC, 9, 045015 (2020)

2019:

“Electronic structure and optical properties of Mn100-xGex (x=20, 25 and 30) alloys near tetragonal-orthorhombic structural phase transition"

S. Dash, A.K. Patra, M. Vasundhara, A.V. Lukoyanov, E.D. Baglasov, Yu.V. Knyazev, Yu.I. Kuz’min, E.I. Shreder

Phys. Status Solidi B 256, 1900155 (2019)

“Impression of magnetic clusters, critical behavior and magnetocaloric effect in Fe3Al alloys”

Shubhra Dash, A.V. Lukoyanov, Yu.V. Knyazev, Yu. I. Kuz’min, E. D. Baglasov, Bruno Weise, Pramod Kumar, M. Vasundhara, and Ajit K. Patra

Journal of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21, 10823 – 10833 (2019)

“Preparation and nanoscale characterization of electrodeposited CoFe-Cu multilayer nanowires”

Shivani Agarwal, Diana Pohl, Ajit Kumar Patra, Kornelius Nielsch, Manvendra Singh Khatri

Journal of Material Chemistry and Physics 230, 231-238 (2019)

“Structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties of Fe3Al alloys”

Shubhra Dash, A.V. Lukoyanov, Yu.V. Knyazev, Yu. I. Kuz’min, E. D. Baglasov, M. Vasundhara, and Ajit K. Patra

Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 32, 2995-3000 (2019)

2018:

“Defect mediated mechanism in undoped, Cu and Zn-doped TiO2 nanocrystals for tailoring the band gap and magnetic properties”

V. R. Akshay, B. Arun, Shubhra Dash, Ajit K. Patra, G. Mandal, Geeta R. Mutta, A. Chanda and M. Vasundhara

RSC Advances 8, 41994 (2018)

MCM-41 Nanoparticles for Brain Delivery: Better Choline-Esterase and Amyloid Formation Inhibition with Improved Kinetics”

Pandey, Pawan; Sharma, Ashok; Rani, Sarita; Mishra, Gaurav; Gopal, Kandasamy; Patra, Ajit; Rana, Monika; Sharma, Anuj; Yadav, Awesh; Gupta, Umesh

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 4, 2860-2869 (2018)

“Structural and magnetic properties of epitaxial Mn-Ge films grown on Ir/Cr buffered MgO(001)”

Shubhra Dash, Benjamin Schleicher, Stefan Schwabe, Ludwig Reichel, R. Heller, Sebastian Fähler, Volker Neu, and Ajit K. Patra

Journal of Physics D- Applied Physics 51, 255002 (2018)

“Lithium doping and photoluminescence properties of ZnO nanorods”

Nanda Shakti, Chandni Devi, A. K. Patra, P. S. Gupta, and Sandeep Kumar

AIP Advances 8, 015306 (2018)

Previous publications

“Structure and magnetic properties of electrodeposited CoPtP/Pt multilayers nanowires”

Shivani Agarwal, S. A. Hashmi, Bhanu Nandan, Ajit K Patra, Ravi P. Singh, J. A. Chelvane, M Singh Khatri

Chemical Physics Letters 684, 378-382 (2017)

“Magnetization reversal behavior and magnetocaloric effect in SmCr0.85Mn0.15O3 chromites”

Surendra Kumar, Indrani Coondoo, M. Vasundhara, Ajit K. Patra, A. L. Kholkin and Neeraj Panwar

Journal of Applied Physics 121, 043907 (2017)

“Robust two-dimensional electronic properties in three-dimensional microstructures of rotationally stacked turbostratic graphene”

Nils Richter, Yenny R. Hernandez, Sebastian Schweitzer, June-Seo Kim, Ajit Patra, Jan Englert, Ingo Lieberwirth, Andrea Liscio, Vincenzo Palermo, Xinliang Feng, Andreas Hirsch, Klaus Müllen and M Kläui

Physical Review Applied 7, 024022 (2017)

“Effect of Gadolinium Doping on Physical Properties of 0.8BiGdxFe1-xO3-0.2PbTiO3 (x=0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 and 0.20) Composites”

Truptimayee Sahu, Ajit  K Patra and  Banarji Behera

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 695, 2273 (2017)

"Ion beam induced structural and lectrical modifications of Fe doped molybdenum oxide thin films"

P.Vats, D. Chauhan, A. K. Patra, V. P. Gupta and Alimuddin

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 31, 593 (2015)

 “Coercivity mechanism in hard magnetic SmCo5/PrCo5 bilayers”

A. K. Patra, F. Fleischhauer, S. Oswald, L. Schultz and V. Neu

Journal of Physics D- Applied Physics 47, 215001 (2014)

 

"Spin Pumping in Permalloy/Graphene and Permalloy/Graphite Interfaces”

S. Singh, A. K. Patra, B. Barin, E. del Barco and B. Özyilmaz 

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 49 (7), 3147-3150 ( 2013)

"Domain-wall induced large magnetoresistance effects at zero applied field in ballsitic nanocontacts"

Arndt von Bieren, Ajit K. Patra, Stephen Krzyk, Jan Rhensius,  L Heyderman, R Hoffmann-Vogel and M Kläui

Physical Review Letters 110, 06723 (2013)

“Dynamic spin injection into chemical vapor deposited graphene”

A. K. Patra. S. Singh, B. Barin, Y. Lee, J.-H. Ahn, E. del Barco E. R. Mucciolo and B. Oezyilmaz

Applied Physics Letters 101, 162407 (2012)

“Probing the anisotropy constants of SmCo5 and PrCo5 by Hall resistance measurements in pulsed high magnetic fields up to 50 T” 

E. Stilp, J. Freudenberger, M. Seifert, A. K. Patra, S. Menzel, I. Mönch, L. Schultz, V. Neu

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 324, 1711 (2012)

"Magnetoresistance measurement of tailored Permalloy nanocontacts ”

A. K. Patra, A. von Bieren, S. Krzyk, J. Rhensius, L. J. Heyderman, R. Hoffmann and M. Kläui “

Physical Review B 82, 134447 (2010)


“The temperature dependent anisotropy constants of epitaxially grown PrCo5+x”
A. K. Patra, M. Eisterer, R. Biele, S. Fähler, L. Schultz, and V. Neu

Journal of Applied Physics 108, 073912 (2010) 
 

“Thermal stability of metastable, epitaxial PrCo7  films with high energy density”

A. K. Patra, V. Neu, S. Fähler and L. Schultz

Journal of Physics D- Applied Physics 40, 7261 (2007)
 

“Crystal structure and its correlation to intrinsic and extrinsic magnetic properties of epitaxial hard magnetic Pr-Co films”

A.K. Patra, V. Neu, S. Fähler, R. Groetzschel, S. Bedanta, W. Kleemann and L. Schultz

Physical Review B 75, 184417 (2007)

“Fully epitaxial, exchange coupled SmCo5/Fe/SmCo5 trilayers”

V. Neu, K. Häfner, A. K. Patra and L. Schultz

Journal of Physics D- Applied Physics 39, 5116 (2006)


“Epitaxial PrCo7 films with high energy product”
A. K. Patra, V. Neu, S. Fähler, R. Groetzschel and L. Schultz

Applied Physics Letters 89, 142512 (2006)


“Phase formation, texture, and magnetic properties of epitaxial Pr-Co films grown on MgO(100)” 
A. K. Patra, V. Neu, S. Fähler, H. Wendrock and L. Schultz

Journal of Applied Physics 100, 043905 (2006)


“Domain structure and magnetic properties of epitaxial rare earth-transition metal thin films”
V. Neu, S. Fähler, A. Singh, A. R. Kwon, A. K. Patra, U. Wolf, K. Häfner, B. Holzafel and L. Schultz

Journal of Iron and Steel Research International 13, 102 (2006)


“Electrical transport in novel Heusler-type Fe2VAl alloys”
M. Vasundhara, A.K. Patra, V. Srinivas and V.V. Rao,

Proceedings of ISAMAP-2K4, Vol-II, 2004, page 5061.

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