Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials: Applications and Emerging Green Technologies

Dr. Manish Kumar obtained his M.Tech. degree in Ceramic Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and Ph.D. degree in Physics from Institute of Science, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. At present, he is serving as Assistant Professor (Level-12) at Department of Physics, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, University of Delhi. His research area focuses on environmental friendly multifunctional materials for energy and memory devices, materials for green energy solutions, multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, composites, perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications, supercapacitors, white light emitting materials, solar simulation via different software and DFT calculation. He has published more than 160 SCI/SCOPUS research publications in international journals and books of high repute, 08 books (published/in press) in Springer Nature, and 01 Indian patent. He is guiding number of Ph.D., M.Tech./M.Sc. and B.Sc./B.Tech. students as supervisor and/ co-supervisor. Dr. Kumar is serving/served as an Editor/Guest Editor in number of highly reputed journals such as, Scientific Reports (Nature), Materials Today Communications (Elsevier), ECS Sensors Plus (IOP, ECS), High Performance Polymers (SAGE),  Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier) and Springer Nature Books.

Dr. Samiksha Dabas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India. She completed her M. Sc. and also Ph. D. in Physics from University of Delhi. Specific materials of research interest are the magnetoelectric multiferroic materials whose applications include energy storage & harvesting, spintronics, sensors and memory devices for next generation multifunctional devices. Further, her research domain includes electromagnetic interference shielding applications utilising materials based on ferrites-conducting polymers/MWCNT/MXenes. She is the reviewer of various national and international research journals. Besides, she has published many research publications in international journals of high repute for which she has also received “commendable research award”. She has also published an Indian patent on “Heterostructure device for harnessing solar energy”. She has been currently guiding a number of M. Sc. dissertation and Ph.D. students as supervisor and/or co-supervisor.