RESUME
1. Name: ALAK KUMAR MAJUMDAR
2. Date of Birth: 13 - 8 - 1941
3. Educational Qualifications:
Year University Area of study Degree Class/Distinctions
1962 Calcutta Physics B.Sc. Ist/3rd position in
Honours Univ., Govt. of India
Merit Scholarship
1964 Calcutta Physics M.Sc. Ist/6th position in
University
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Carnegie Inst. Physics M.S. -
of Tech.USA
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Carnegie- Physics Ph.D. -
Mellon Univ.
USA
4. Record of Service Before Joining IIT/K:
Year Institution Designation Nature of work
68-71 Carnegie-Mellon Project Physicist Research and teaching
Univ., USA.
5. Record of Service at IIT/K:
Year Designation
1972-1975 Lecturer
1975-1984 Assistant Professor
1984-2006 Professor
1992-1995 Head, Physics Dept.
1996-1997 Member, Board of Governors, IIT/K
2006- Research Professor, S. N. Bose National
Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
6. Recognition:
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Membership of professional organization/societies
- Indian Physics Society (IPA),
- American Physical Society (APS).
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Referee of Physical Review & Physical Review Letters since 1983.
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National/International awards, prizes, medals:
Alexdander von Humboldt Fellow, Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe, West Germany,
1981-83; Univ. of Giessen, summer of 1994; Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe, summer of 2004.
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Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 1997.
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Visiting Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, Jan-Dec, 1999.
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Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) of Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science of the Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (DST), 2001-2004.
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Member, Expert Committee on “The Establishment of Low Temperature and High Magnetic Field Facilities: Phase II” of the Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (DST), 2004-2007.
7. Research Experience:
I. Student supervision (Ph.D)
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Year - 1981
Name of the student: A. K. Nigam (Associate Professor, TIFR, Mumbai)
Thesis title: Magnetoresistance in Spin Glasses.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
2. Year - 1983
Name of the student: A. K. Gangopadhyay (University of Washington, USA)
Thesis title: Extraordinary Hall Effect and Magnetization in Ni-Fe-Cr and Ni-Fe-V Alloys.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar / R. K. Ray
3. Year - 1984
Name of the student: Ratnamala Roy (Associate Prof., IIT, Delhi)
Thesis title: Transport and Thermomagnetic Properties of Metallic Glasses.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar / R. K. Ray
4. Year - 1985
Name of the student: S. B. Roy (Scientist G, CAT, Indore)
Thesis title: Study of the Possibility of the Coexistence
of Long-range and Spin Glass Ordering in
Random Magnetic Alloys.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar / A. Mookerjee
5. Year - 1990
Name of the student: A. Banerjee (Scientist F, IUC, Indore)
Thesis title: Electron Transport and Magnetic Studies of CuMn Binary Alloys.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
6. Year - 1991
Name of the student: Rita Singhal (Lecturer, Sardar Patel College of Engineering,
Mumbai)
Thesis title: Magnetic Scattering and Crystallization Studies in Amorphous
Fe80B20-xSix (0 ≤ x ≤ 12) Using Resistivity, Magnetization, and
Mössbauer Measurements.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar / R. M. Singru
7. Year - 1992
Name of the student: Amitabh Das (Scientist E, BARC, Mumbai)
Thesis title: Transport and Magnetic Properties of Co-rich Amorphous Ferromagnetic
Alloys Containing Cr/Mn.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
8. Year - 1997
Name of the student: T. K. Nath (Asst. Prof., IIT, Kharagpur)
Thesis title: Transport and magnetic studies in γ-Fe80-xNixCr20 (14 ≤ x ≤ 30)
stainless steel alloys and Cu/Ni-Zr-Al magnetic glasses.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
9. Year - 1998
Name of the student: S. Chakraborty (Research Associate, Univ. of Louisville, USA)
Thesis title: Low temperature electrical resistivity and galvanomagetic effects
in Mn-rich CuMn and Ni-rich NiFeCr alloys.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
10. Year - 1998
Name of the student: Gautam Sinha (Scientist E, CAT, Indore)
Thesis title: Effect of Exotic Magnetic Phases on the Magneto-transport
Properties of Fe80-xNixCr20 Alloys (14 ≤ x ≤ 30).
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
11. Year – 2006
Name of the student: Ram Shanker Patel (Post-doctoral Fellow, MPI, Dresden, Germany)
Thesis title: Transport and Magnetic Properties of Ion-beam Sputtered
Fe/Cr Giant Magnetoresistance Multilayers.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
12. Year – 2006
Name of student: Pradip Kumar Khatua (Post-doctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute,
Tel Aviv, Israel)
Thesis title: Hall Effect in Ion-beam Sputtered Fe/Cr Giant Magnetoresistive Multilayers.
Supervisor(s): A. K. Majumdar
II. Student supervision (MSc) Year – 1972 - 2005.
Guided 42 M.Sc. students for a 1-year duration research project in the area of Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics.
III. Sponsored Research Projects Undertaken:
S.No. Duration Name of Fun- Project Title Cost of No. of pub-
ding Agency Project (Rs.) lications
1. 1975-79 DOE Mischmetal-Cobalt 14,30,000 8
permanent magnets (Co PI)
2. 1975-79 DAE Electrical and magn- 1,10,000 2
etic properties of (PI)
metallic spin glasses
3. 1980-84 DST Electrical, magnetic 2,75,200 6
and thermal properties (PI)
of magnetic materials
4. 1985-89 DST Magnetic phase studies 7,68,320 4
in binary and ternary (PI)
systems
5. 1988-93 DST Phyisics and applica- 16,70,000 17
tions of high Tc super- (PI)
conductors
6. 1992-95 DST Magnetic and electron 14,95,000 4
transport studies in dis- (PI)
ordered systems
7. 1996-2001 NSF / DST Low temperature stu- 8,40,000 6
dies of Hall effect and (PI)
specific heat in amorph-
ous alloys
8. 1995-2001 DST NiFeCr alloys: magne- 30,34,426 11
tic electrical and (PI)
thermal studies
9. 2006-2008 DST Magnetotransport in 19,28,000 1
Giant Magnetoresistive (PI)
Multilayers
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
IN REFEREED JOURNALS
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Hall effect and asymmetric scattering in pure iron and Fe-Co at 4.2K, A.K. Majumdar and L. Berger, J. Appl. Phys. 41, 1423 (1970).
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Hall effect and magnetoresistance in pure iron, lead, Fe-Co and Fe-Cr dilute alloys, A.K. Majumdar and L. Berger, Phys. Rev. B 7, 4203 (1973).
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Magnetization studies of Fe-Ni-Te alloys, D.C. Khan and A.K. Majumdar, Physica 95 B, 211 (1978).
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Ferromagnetic anisotropy of resistivity in metglas, A.K. Nigam and A.K. Majumdar, Physica, 95 B, 385 (1978).
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Magnetic properties of amorphous ferromagnet Fe78Mo2B20, A.K. Majumdar, Solid State Commun. 29, 85 (1979).
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Anomalous magnetoresistance in Au-Fe spin-glass, A.K. Nigam and A.K. Majumdar, MMM Conference, Cleveland, U.S.A., Nov. 7- 11, 1978, J Appl. Phys. 50, 1712 (1979).
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Phase equilibria and magnetic characteristics of phases in the MM-Co-Fe system at the high transition metal side, R.C. Mittal et al., Joint Intermag-MMM Conference, New York, U.S.A., July 17-20, 1979, IEEE Trans. Magn. 15, 1775 (1979).
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Extraordinary Hall effect in Ni-Fe-Cr ternary alloys, A. Sinha and A.K. Majumdar, Joint Intermag-MMM Conference, New York, U.S.A., July 17-20, 1979, J. Appl. Phys. 50, 7533 (1979).
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Transverse magnetoresistance in Ag-Mn in the spin-glass regime, A.K. Nigam, R.K. Ray, T.M. Srinivasan and A.K. Majumdar, Joint Intermag-MMM Conference, New York, U.S.A., July 17-20, 1979, J. Appl. Phys. 50, 7361 (1979).
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Equilibrium relations among magnetic phases in mischmetal cobalt system, E.M.T. Velu et al., The Rare Earths in Modern Science and Technology, Vol. 2, P. 45, Plenum Press, New York (1980).
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Magnetic and transport properties of metglas Fe40Ni38Mo4B18, A. K. Majumdar and A. K. Nigam, J. Appl. Phys. 51, 4218 (1980).
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Phase relations in Mischmetal Cobalt system, E.M.T. Velu et al., Journal of the Less-Common Metals, 71, 219 (1980).
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Thermomagnetic analysis of intermetallic phases in mischmetal cobalt system, E.M.T. Velu et al., J. Appl. Phys. 51, 3322 (1980).
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Phase relations and magnetic properties of MM (Co1-xCux) 5, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 and MM (Co1-xFex) 5, 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3 alloys, E.M.T. Velu et al., Intermag, Boston, U.S.A., April 21-24, 1980, IEEE Trans. Magn. 16, 997 (1980).
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Analytical methods for Fe-Co alloys, T.A. Padmavati Sankar et al., Bull. Mater. Sci. 2, 167 (1980).
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Phase equilibria in Mischmetal-Cobalt-Iron systems at the high transition metal end, R.C.Mittal et al., Journal of the Less Common Metals, 78, 245 (1981).
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Thermomagnetic and transport properties of Metglas 2605SC and 2605, Ratnamala Roy and A.K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 25, 83 (1981).
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Electrical resistivity in Fe100-xBx (13 ≤ x ≤ 26) series, N. Banerjee, Ratnamala Roy, A. K. Majumdar and R. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. B 24, 6801 (1981).
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Magnetoresistance in canonical spin glasses, A.K. Nigam and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev., B 27, 495 (1983).
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Deviations from Curie-Weiss law in Au-Mn and Ag-Mn spin- glasses, A. K. Majumdar, V. Oestreich and D. Weschenfelder, Solid State Commun. 45, 907 (1983).
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Proof of the T5/2 term in the magnetization of Fe (BC) metallic glasses, A. K. Majumdar, V. Oestreich, D. Weschenfelder and F. E. Luborsky, Phys. Rev. B 27, 5618 (1983).
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Correlations between magnetoresistance and magnetization in Ag-Mn and Au-Mn spin-glasses, A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 28, 2750 (1983).
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Antiferromagnetic order in γ-Fe-Ni-Cr stainless steel, A. K. Majumdar and P.v. Blanckenhagen, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 40, 227 (1983).
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Magnetic phase-diagram of Fe80-xNixCr20 (10 ≤ x ≤ 30) alloys, A.K. Majumdar and P. v. Blanckenhagen, Phys. Rev., B 29, 4079 (1984).
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Sign reversal of the extraordinary Hall coefficient in Ni-Fe-Cr and Ni-Fe-V alloys, A.K. Gangopadhyay, R. K. Ray and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 30, 1801 (1984).
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Effect of carbon substitution on the specific heat of Fe80B20-xCx (0 ≤ x ≤ 8), A.K. Majumdar and G. Uffinger, Solid State Commun. 51, 967 (1984).
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Magnetization dependence of magnetoresistance in Cu-Mn spin-glasses, A.K. Majumdar and V. Oestreich, Phys. Rev. B 30, 5342 (1984).
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Weak itinerant ferromagnetism in Ni-rich Ni-Fe-Cr and Ni-Fe-V alloys, A. K. Gangopadhyay, R. K. Ray and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 30, 6693 (1984).
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Electrical and galvanomagnetic properties of Fe100-xBx metallic glasses (13≤ x ≤ 26), Ratnamala Roy and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 31, 2033 (1985).
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Ac-susceptibility and electrical resistivity in Fe80-xNixCr20 alloys, S. B. Roy, A.K. Majumdar, N. C. Mishra, A. K. Raychaudhury and R. Srinivasan, Phys. Rev. B 31, 7458 (1985).
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Phenomenological approach to the electronic structure of glassy transition metal alloys, A. Banerjee, Vijay A. Singh and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 32, 8384 (1985).
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Residual resistivity in Ni-Fe-Cr/V alloys and the two-current model, A. K. Gangopadhyay and A. K. Majumdar, Pramana-J. Phys., 26, 73 (1986).
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Long-range ferromagnetic order in Au82Fe18 alloy, S.B. Roy, A. K. Gangopadhyay and A. K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 59, 153 (1986).
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Linear magnetostriction in polycrystalline Ni-Fe-Cr and Ni-Fe-V alloys, A.K. Majumdar and R.D. Greenough, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 59, 57 (1986).
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Phase transition to long-range ferromagnetism in Au82Fe18 and the associated critical exponents, A. K. Gangopadhyay, S. B. Roy and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 33, 5010 (1986).
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Phase equilibria in MM-Co-Fe system between 2:17 and 2:7 phase regions, S. Laha et al. Calphad XIII, Villard de Lans, France, May 14-18, 1984, Journal of the Less-Common Metals, 124, 211 (1986).
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YBaCuO superconductor prepared by citrate nitrate gel method, D. Bahadur, A. Banerjee, A. Das, K.P. Gupta, Tom Mathews, A. Mitra, M. Tewari and A.K. Majumdar, Srinagar Workshop on High Temperature Superconductivity, Srinagar, India, May 2-4, 1988, Reviews of Solid State Science, 2, 177 (1988).
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Electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance in Fe-B-C amorphous alloys, S. B. Roy, A.K.Nigam, Girish Chandra and A.K. Majumdar, J. Phys. F: Met. Phys. 18, 2625 (1988).
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Ac-susceptibility apparatus for use with a Closed-Cycle helium refrigerator, A. Banerjee, A. K. Rastogi, Manoj Kumar, A. Das, A. Mitra and A. K. Majumdar, J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 22, 230 (1989).
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Structure and superconductivity in YBa2-xNaxCu3O7, D. Bahadur, K.P. Gupta, M. Tewari, A. Banerjee, A. Das, A. Mitra and A.K. Majumdar, Advances in Ferrites (Ed. C.M. Srivastava and M.J. Patni, Oxford and IBH Publishing, New Delhi), 727 (1989).
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Superconducting glass ceramics in Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system, D. Bahadur, A. Banerjee, A.Das, K.P. Gupta, A. Mitra, M. Tewari and A.K. Majumdar, Mater. Res. Bull., 24, 1405 (1989).
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Effect of optimum thermal treatment in BiSrCaCu2Oy, D. Bahadur, A. Banerjee, A. Das, K.P. Gupta, A. Mitra, M. Tewari and A.K. Majumdar, J. Mat. Sci., 25, 4852 (1990).
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Electrical resistivity in polycrystalline La1.8Sr0.2CuO4 and YBa2Cu3O7-δ - temperature dependence and critical fluctuations, N. Sudhakar, M.K. Pillai, A.Banerjee, D.Bahadur, A. Das, K.P. Gupta, S.V. Sharma and A.K. Majumdar, Solid State Commun. 77, 529 (1991).
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High - temperature resistivity minima in Co-rich amorphous ferromagnets, A. Das and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 43, 6042 (1991).
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Effect of low Pb doping in Bi4-xPbxSr4Ca5Cu7Oy : a disproportionation reaction study, D. Bahadur, A. Banerjee, A. Das, K.P. Gupta, K. Singh, N. Sudhakar, M. Tewari and A. K. Majumdar, J. Mat. Sci. Lett. 10, 316 (1991).
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Electrical resistivity studies of quasicrystalline Ti56Ni28-xFexSi16 (0 ≤ x ≤ 15), D. Bahadur, A. Das, K. Singh and A.K. Majumdar, J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 3, 4125 (1991).
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Magnetic scattering in amorphous ferromagnets Fe80B20-xSix (0 ≤ x ≤ 12), Rita Singhal and A.K. Majumdar, Phys Rev. B 44, 2673 (1991).
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Magnetoresistance in Fe80-xNixCr20 (21 ≤ x ≤ 30) alloys, T. K. Nath and A. K. Majumdar, Presented at the 5th Joint MMM- Intermag Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, June 18 - 21, 1991, J. Appl. Phys. 70, 5828 (1991).
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Mixed magnetic phase in Co-rich metallic glasses, A. Das and A.K. Majumdar, Presented at the 5th Joint MMM- Intermag Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, June 18-21, 1991, J. Appl. Phys. 70, 6323 (1991).
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Ag2O as nucleating agent in the crystallization of superconducting phase in Bi2Sr2Ca4Cu5Oy glass composition, D. Bahadur, N. Sudhakar, S. V. Sharma, K. P. Gupta and A.K. Majumdar, Physica C 190, 527 (1992).
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Micro-Raman spectroscopy of carbon cluster composites, L. S. Grigoryan, H. D. Bist, S. Sathaiah, S.V. Sharma, H. Clara and A.K. Majumdar, J. of Raman Spectroscopy 23, 127(1992).
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Phase separated glass and resultant superconducting glass ceramics in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O (2245) composition, S.V. Sharma, N. Sudhakar, A. Das, A.K. Majumdar, K.P. Gupta and D. Bahadur, Mat. Res. Bull., 27, 247 (1992).
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Carbon nanocluster composites : synthesis, characterization and expectations, L.S. Grigoryan, Prem Chand, S.V. Sharma and A.K. Majumdar, Solid State Commun., 81, 853 (1992).
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Crystallization of glassy Fe80B20-xSix (0 ≤ x ≤ 12) alloys, Rita Singhal and A.K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 115, 245 (1992).
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Direct observation of carbon cage C60 - bucky ball, A.V. Narlikar, S.B. Samanta, P.K. Dutta, L.S. Grigoryan and A.K. Majumdar, Phil. Mag. Lett. 66, 75 (1992).
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Electron-molecular vibration interactions in undoped fullerene films: micro-Raman study, L.S. Grigoryan, H.D. Bist, S. Sathaiah, H. Clara, S.V. Sharma, N. Sudhakar, Prem Chand, A. K. Majumdar, S.B. Samanta, P.K. Dutta, and A.V. Narlikar, Chem. Phys. Lett. 199, 360 (1992).
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Metallic islands in carbon cluster films: doping fullerenes with fullerenes, N. Sudhakar, S.V. Sharma, L. S. Grigoryan, P. Chand, A. K. Majumdar, P. K. Dutta, S. B. Samanta, and A. V. Narlikar, Phys. Lett. A 170, 235 (1992).
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High-resolution direct observation of the carbon - cage structure of C60 buckyballs, A. V. Narlikar, S. B. Samanta, P. K. Dutta, L. S. Grigoryan, and A.K. Majumdar, J. Appl. Cryst. 25, 657 (1992).
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Electron transport and magnetic studies of CuMn binary alloys, A. Banerjee and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 46, 8958 (1992).
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Critical exponents of Cr - containing Co - rich metallic glasses, A. Das and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 47, 5828 (1993).
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Structural and electrical resistivity studies on Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca4Cu5Oy composition synthesized through different routes, S. V. Sharma, N. Sudhakar, A. K. Majumdar, K. P. Gupta and D. Bahadur, J. Mat. Sci. Lett. 12, 1371 (1993).
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Incommensurate periodic lattice modulation in the carbon cluster composite films, S. V. Sharma, L. S. Grigoryan and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Lett. A 177, 153 (1993).
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Magnetic properties of Co - rich amorphous alloys containing Cr/Mn, A. Das and A. K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 128, 47 (1993).
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Scanning tunneling microscopic studies of the molecular lattice and defect structures in the C60 Fibres containing higher fullerene derivatives, A. V. Narlikar, S. B. Samanta, P. K. Dutta, L. S. Grigoryan, and A.K. Majumdar, Cond. Matter. and Materials Commun. 1, 13 (1993).
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Evidence of both localization and electron interaction in the electrical resistivity of some metallic glasses, A. Das and A.K. Majumdar, AIP Conf. Proc. 286, 75 (1993).
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Synthesis, magnetic and structural studies of the 110 K phase of Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca2Cu3Oy high Tc superconductors, S.V. Sharma, G. Sinha,T.K. Nath and S. Chakraborty and A. K. Majumdar, Physica C 235-240 , 489 (1994).
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Superconducting fluctuation study of the 110 K phase in the polycrystalline Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca2Cu3Oy high Tc superconductor, S. V. Sharma, G. Sinha, T. K. Nath, S. Chakraborty and A.K. Majumdar, Physica C 242, 351 (1995).
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Crystallization study of Cr containing Co- rich metallic glasses, A. Das and A.K. Majumdar, Mater. Res. Bull. 30, 271 (1995).
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69. Resistivity minima in concentrated γ-Cu100-xMnx alloys (36 ≤ x ≤ 83), S. Chakraborty and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 53, 6235 (1996).
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Resistivity saturation in substitutionally disordered γ-Fe80-xNixCr20 (14 ≤ x ≤ 30) alloys. T. K. Nath and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 53, 12148 (1996).
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Relaxation of thermoremanent magnetization in different magnetic phases of Fe-rich γ-FeNiCr alloys, G. Sinha, R. Chatterjee, M. Uehara, and A. K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 164, 345 (1996).
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Quantum interference effects in (Ni0.5Zr0.5)1-xAlx metallic glasses, T. K. Nath and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 55, 5554 (1997).
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Low-field magnetoresistance in diverse magnetic phases of γ-FeNiCr alloys, G. Sinha, R. D. Barnard and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 55, 8982 (1997).
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Magnetization study of γ-Fe80-xNixCr20 (14 ≤ x ≤ 30) alloys to 20 T, T. K. Nath, N. Sudhakar, E. J. McNiff and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 55, 12389 (1997).
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Microwave absorption and paracoherence excess conductivity studies in high Tc superconductor, S.V. Sharma, T.K. Nath, and A.K. Majumdar, Physica C 290, 229 (1997).
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Quantum corrections to Boltzmann conductivity in Cu/Ni-Zr-Al metallic glass, T. K. Nath and A. K. Majumdar, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 12, 125 (1998).
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Linear and non-linear ac - susceptibilities in different magnetic phases of Fe -- rich γ-FeNiCr alloys, G. Sinha and A. K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater 185, 18 (1998).
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Magnetoresistance and its correlation with magnetization in γ-Fe80-xNixCr20 (14 ≤ x ≤ 30) alloys near the multicritical point, T. K. Nath and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 57, 10655 (1998).
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Electron transport studies in Ni-rich γ-NiFeCr alloys, S. Chakraborty and A. K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater 186, 357 (1998).
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Hall effect in crystalline NiFeCr alloys showing resistivity minima, S. Chakraborty and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 57, 11850 (1998).
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Galvanomagnetic studies in Ni-rich γ-NiFeCr permalloys, S. Chakraborty and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 58, 6434 (1998).
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Positive magnetoresistance in concentrated γ-CuMn alloys, S. Chakraborty, B. Schnell, G. Thummes, and A. K. Majumdar, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 12, 2263 (1998).
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Magnetization in Mn-rich γ-Cu100-xMnx (36 ≤ x ≤ 83) alloys till 75 kOe, S. Chakraborty, K.D.D. Rathnayaka, D.G. Naugle, and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 60, 440 (1999 ).
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Magnetic phase transitions in Fe80-xNixCr20(14 ≤ x ≤ 30) alloys studied by using 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, D. Bandyopadhyay, R.M. Singru, and A. K. Majumdar, Hyperfine Interactions 122, 239 (1999).
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Critical exponents in NiFeV alloys for the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition, G. D. Mukherjee, S. Chakraborty, K. D. D. Rathnayaka, D. G. Naugle and A.K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 214, 185 (2000).
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Low-temperature magnetization in Ni-rich γ-NiFeV alloys, S. Chakraborty, G.D. Mukherjee, K. D. D. Rathnayaka, D. G. Naugle and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 62, 476 (2000).
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Hall effect in different magnetic phases of Fe-rich γ-FeNiCr alloys, G. Sinha and A.K. Majumdar, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 14, 1659 (2000).
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Calculation of the Debye temperature and study of the lattice dynamics of Fe80-xNixCr20 by 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, D. Bandyopadhyay, R. M. Singru, and A.K. Majumdar, Z. Metallkd., 92, 4, 367 (2001).
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Spin - dependent electrical transport in ion-beam sputter deposited Fe-Cr multilayers, A.K. Majumdar, A.F. Hebard, Avinash Singh, and D. Temple, Phys. Rev. B 65, 054408-1 (2002).
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Low-temperature resistivity minima in colossal magnetoresitive La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 thin films, D. Kumar, J. Sankar, J. Narayan, Rajiv K. Singh, and A.K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 65, 094407 (2002).
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Thermo-remanent magnetization in Mn-rich Cu100-xMnx (x = 73, 76, and 83) binary alloys, R. S. Patel, D. Kumar, and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 66, 054408-1 (2002).
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Magnetic scattering in Fe-Cr multiplayer in the ferromagnetic state at low temperatures, R. S. Patel, A. K. Majumdar, A. F. Hebard, and D. Temple, J. Appl. Phys. 93, 7684(2003).
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Further evidence of electron-electron interaction in (Ni0.5Zr0.5) 1-xAlx amorphous alloys, A. K. Majumdar, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 263, 26 (2003).
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Coexistence of glassy antiferromagnetism and giant magnetoresistance in Fe/Cr multilayer structures, N. Theodoropoulou, A.F. Hebard, M. Gabay, A.K. Majumdar, C. Pace, J. Lannon, and D. Temple, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 263, 32 (2003).
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Extraordinary Hall effect in Fe-Cr giant magnetoresistive multilayers, P. Khatua, A. K. Majumdar, A. F. Hebard, and D. Temple, Phys. Rev. B 68, 144405 (2003).
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Correlation between the extraordinary Hall constant and electrical resistivity minima in Co-rich metallic glasses, A. K. Majumdar, P. Khatua, K. D. D. Rathnayaka, D. G. Naugle, Phys. Rev. B 69, 214417 (2004).
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Evidence of spin-wave demagnetization in Fe-Cr GMR multilayers, R. S. Patel, A. K. Majumdar, A. F. Hebard, and D. Temple, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 033910 (2005).
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Extraordinary Hall effect in self-assembled epitaxial Ni crystallites embedded in a TiN matrix, P. Khatua, T. K. Nath, and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 73, 064408 (2006).
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Swift heavy ion induced mixing in Fe/Ni multilayer, D. K. Avasthi, S. K. Srivastava, R. Kumar, A. Gupta, R. S. Patel, and A. K. Majumdar, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics B 243, 304 (2006).
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Scaling law and its universality in the anomalous Hall effect of giant magnetoresistive Fe/Cr multilayers, P. Khatua, A. K. Majumdar, D. Temple, and C. Pace, Phys. Rev. B 73, 094421 (2006).
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Correlation between giant magnetoresistance and anomalous Hall effect – A realization of the existence of quantum well in Fe/Cr multilayers, P. Khatua and A. K. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. B 74, 092405 (2006).
102. Relaxation of thermo-remanent magnetization in Fe-Cr GMR multilayers, R. S. Patel, A. K. Majumdar, and A. K. Nigam, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 309, 256 (2007). Available online 14 August 2006.
103. Role of heterostructures and multiple magnetic phases in the low-field magnetization of Fe- Cr GMR multilayers, R. S. Patel, A. K. Majumdar, A. K. Nigam, D. Temple and C. Pace,
J. Appl. Phys. 100, 123914 (2006).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1. Hall effect of iron proportional to MB2 in the high field limit, L. Berger and A.K. Majumdar,
Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society, Washington D.C., U.S.A., Bull. Am. Phys.
Soc. 13, 573 (1968).
2. Failure of Kohler's rule and large Cr polarizability in dilute Fe-Cr, A.K. Majumdar and L.
Berger, Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society, Washington D.C., U.S.A., Bull. Am.
Phys. Soc. 16, 583 (1971).
3. Failure of Kohler's rule in dilute Iron-Chromium alloys, A.K. Majumdar and L. Berger, Proc. of
Nuclear and Solid State Phys. Symposium, 15C, 37 (1972).
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Activities of I.I.T. Kanpur, Invited Talk by A.K. Majumdar at the First National Symposium on
Cryogenics, New Delhi, Nov. (1975).
5. Phase equilibria in Mischmetal-Co-Fe system, R.C. Mittal et al., First Annual Technical Meeting
of the Magnetics Society of India, Hyderabad, July 12-13 (1976).
6. Sintering studies on Mischmetal-Cobalt alloys, K. Shankar Prasad et al., Ibid (1976).
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Experiments on spin-glasses, Invited Talk by A.K. Majumdar at the All India Symposium and
Winter School in Solid State Phys. Symposium, Behrampur, Feb. (1977).
8. Energetic ion backscattering and I-V characteristics of Schottky barrier contacts on In-Sb,
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Agarwal, A. K. Majumdar and R. Sharan, Proc. of Nuclear and Solid State Physics
Symposium. Pune, Dec. 26-30, 20C, 180 (1977).
9. Magnetic properties of Ni-Fe-Cr alloys, A. Sinha and A.K. Majumdar , Ibid, 20C, 436 (1977).
10. Magnetoresistance in spin-glasses, A.K. Nigam and A.K. Majumdar, ibid, 20C, 467 (1977).
11. Effect of magnetic field on the resistivity of noble metal-trasition metal alloys, A.K. Nigam and
A.K. Majumdar, Proc. of the Third National Symposium on Cryogenics, Visakhapatnam,
Dec. 17-20 (1978).
12. Review of spin-glasses, Invited Talk by A. K. Majumdar at the All India Symposium on
Disordered systems, Kanpur, Feb. (1980).
13. Magnetoresistance in canonical spin-glasses, Invited Talk by A.K. Majumdar at the Symposium
on Current Trends in Magnetism, New Delhi, Dec. (1980).
14. Study of transverse magnetoresistance in Cu-Mn spin-glasses at low temperatures, A.K. Nigam
and A.K. Majumdar, Nuclear and Solid State Phys. Symposium, New Delhi, SF B1 (1980).
15. Thermomagnetic and transport properties of some metallic glasses, Ratnamala Roy and A.K.
Majumdar, Ibid, SF B15 (1980).
16. Transition from antiferromagnetism to field-Induced ferromagnetism in Fe-Ni-Cr alloys, A.K.
Majumdar and P.v. Blanckenhagen, Europhysics Conference on Solid State Physics,
Manchester, U.K., March 22-25 (1982).
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Spin-Waves in Fe-B-C ternary metallic glasses, A.K. Majumdar, V. Oestreich, D.
Weschenfelder and F.E. Luborsky, Ibid. (1982).
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Correlation between magnetoresistance and magnetization in Ag-Mn and Au-Mn spin-glasses,
Talk by A.K. Majumdar in the Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics, International
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare-Trieste, Italy, August (1982).
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Compositional phase transition in Fe-Ni-Cr alloys, Invited Talk by A.K. Majumdar at the Indo-
Soviet Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Bangalore, January (1984).
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Weak itinerant ferromagnetism in Ni-Fe-Cr alloys, A. K. Gangopadhyay, R.K. Ray and A.K.
Majumdar, Ibid (1984).
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Electrical resistivity and magnetic susceptibility in Fe80-xNixCr20 (21 ≤ x ≤ 30), S.B. Roy, A.K.
Majumdar, N.C. Mishra, A.K. Raychaudhury and R. Srinivasan, Ibid. (1984).
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Electrical and magnetic measurements using a cryotip, A. K. Majumdar, Workshop on Low
Temperature Physics and Cryogenic Techniques, Aug 30-Sept 2, 1988, IACS, Calcutta.
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Synthesis of superconducting Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system through glass ceramics route, D.
Bahadur et al., The 2nd Experimental Workshop on High TC Superconductors, Trieste,
Italy, March 30-April 14 (1989).
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Electrical resistivity and critical fluctuations in LaSrCuO and YBaCuO systems, N. Sudhakar et
al., National Workshop on High Tc Superconductors, I.I.T. Kanpur, Oct. 3-5(1989).
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Disproportionation reaction of low Tc phases in Bi4-xPbxSr4Ca5Cu7Oy (x = 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25), D.
Bahadur et al., International Conference on Superconductivity, I.I.Sc., Bangalore, Jan 10-14
(1990).
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A few interesting and useful magnetic systems, A.K. Majumdar, Course on Neutrons as Probes
in Condensed Matter IV, IUC-DAEF, Indore, Oct 31-Nov 12 (1992).
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Magnetic phase diagram of Cu100-xMnx binary alloys, Invited talk by A. Banerjee and A. K. Majumdar at the 12th National Symposium on Cryogenics 1993, Indian Cryogenic
Council, Calcutta, March 29-30 (1993).
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Linear and non--linear susceptibilities in spin--glass, G. Sinha and A. K. Majumdar, Proc. of the
DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, 38C, 125 (1995).
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Electron - electron interaction effects in CuMn alloys, S. Chakraborty and A. K. Majumdar,
ibid, 250 (1995).
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Saturation of electrical resistivity in -FeNiCr alloys, T. K. Nath and A. K. Majumdar, ibid, 251
(1995).
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Transport and magnetic properties of stainless steel alloys and CuMn, Invited talk by A. K.
Majumdar at the Discussion Workshop on Electronic Structure and Phase Stability of Alloys, S.
N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Calcutta, April 23-26 (1996).
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Resistivity minima in disordered systems, Invited talk by A. K. Majumdar at the 15th National
Symposium on Cryogenics 1996, Indian Cryogenic Council, National Physical Laboratory,
New Delhi, September 12-14 (1996).
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Resistivity minima in amorphous and crystalline alloys, Invited talk by A.K. Majumdar at the
Indo-French Workshop on Recent Advances in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Udaipur,
November 3-7 (1996).
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Low- temperature magnetoresistance of colossal magnetoresistive La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 thin films, a paper presented by Dhananjay Kumar, Srinivas Pietambaram, Rajiv Singh, Clinton Lee, Jag Shankar, Jagdish Narayan, Alak Majumdar at Session T26 of the APS Meeting, Minneapolis, March 23 (2000).
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Magnetization and electrical transport in Fe-Cr multilayers, Invited talk by A.K. Majumdar at
the symposium on New Developments in Materials : Nanomaterials and Manganites,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 2-3 (2001).
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Irreversibility and relaxation in the magnetization of Fe/Cr multilayer structures exhibiting a
giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, a paper presented by N. Theodoropoulou, A. K.
Majumdar, A.F. Hebard, C. Pace, J. Lannon Jr., and D. Temple at Session C22 of the APS
Meeting, Seattle, March 12 (2001).
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Coexistence of glassy antiferromagnetism and giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in Fe/Cr
multilayer structures, A.F. Hebard, N. Theodoropoulou, M. Gabay, A.K. Majumdar, C. Pace, J.
Lannon, and D. Temple at Session T15 of the APS Meeting, Indianapolis, March 21 (2002).
38. Magnetization and electrical transport in Fe-Cr multilayers, A. K. Majumdar, Invited talk at the National Conference on Sensor Technology organized by DRDO in Delhi, September 26-27 (2002).
39. Magnetic scattering in Fe-Cr multilayer in the ferromagnetic state at low temperatures, R.S. Patel, A.K. Majumdar, A.F. Hebard, and D. Temple at Session EQ-01 of the 47th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials at Tampa, Florida, November 11-15 (2002).
40. Magneto-transport at high fields in ion-beam sputtered Fe-Cr multilayers, P. Khatua, A. K. Majumdar, A. F. Hebard, and D. Temple at the 45th DAE SSP Symposium – 2002 at Punjab University, Chandigarh, December 26-30 (2002).
41. Spin scattering and Hall effect in magnetic multilayers, A. K. Majumdar, Invited talk at the India-Finland joint workshop on the "Physics and techniques below 20K", organized by INSA and Finland's Senior Academy of Sciences and Letters, held at the IISc, Bangalore, February 16-18, (2004).
42. Extraordinary Hall effect in self-assembled epitaxial Ni-nanocrystallites embedded in TiN matrix, A. K. Majumdar, Invited talk at the Awareness Workshop on “Low temperature & high magnetic field facilities at CSR, Indore” held at Indore, July 3-4 (2006).
43. Resistivity minima in bulk disordered alloys, A. K. Majumdar, Invited talk at the Asia-Sweden Research Link Conference on "Magnetism in materials", held at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, February 8-10 (2007).
44. The scaling law and its universality in the anomalous Hall effect of giant magnetoresistive Fe/Cr multilayers, A. K. Majumdar, Invited talk at the “Workshop on Correlated Systems and Novel Materials (CSNM-07)", organized by Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur, January 16-18 (2007).
45. Structural and Magnetic Characteristics of Self-Assembled Nickel Nanoparticles in CeO2 Thin Films, Adero Paige, Jeremiah Abiade, Dhananjay Kumar, and A. K. Majumdar, 2007 Spring Meeting of The Materials Research Society, April 9 – 13, 2007, San Francisco, California (2007).
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