The design, fabrication, and investigation of rare-earth, transition metal-based intermetallic and oxides, magnetic thin films and heterostructures are the main focus of the Superconductivity & Magnetism and low dimensional condensed matter Labs at IITK, which is led by Prof. Zakir Hossain.

Current Research Highlights: 

• Topological, magnetic, and superconducting properties of novel compounds in the form of polycrystals, single crystals, and thin films. 

• Study of exciting physical properties such as superconductivity, charge density wave, heavy fermion behavior, the Kondo effect, quantum criticality, a complex magnetic ground state, large magnetoresistance, and the anomalous and topological Hall effect.

• Fabrication of oxide and metallic magnetic thin films and heterostructures for spintronics and magnonics application.

• 2D electron gas at the interface of insulating oxides: Kondo effect, spin-orbit interaction, magneto-thermopower and gate voltage tuned of photoconductivity. 

• Magnetization dynamics, spin wave and magnetic anisotropy in iron garnet single crystalline thin films and metallic thin films.