Meet the editors

Dr. Dipti Ranjan Sahu is currently an Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). He received his doctoral degree in physics from the Institute of Materials Science, Utkal University, India. After his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and a visiting scientist in several institutions such as the National Taiwan University,

National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), and the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). His research focus is on multifunctional materials including nanomaterials, ceramic, composites, spintronics, magnetic materials, and the application of functional materials in devices. He has published more than 90 international peer-reviewed journal articles, 1 book, 2 book chapters, and more than 100 research articles in conference proceedings and meetings.

Dr. V. N. Stavrou is currently an Adjunct Member at the Hellenic Naval Academy, Piraeus, Greece. He received an MSc and a Ph.D. in theoretical solid-state physics from the University of Essex in England, in 1995 and in 1999 respectively. He has held postdoctoral positions at the following research institutions: a) Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft und Raumfahrt e.V (German Aerospace Research Center) in Germany, b) Helsinki University of Technology, c) State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA and d) University of Iowa, USA. He is specifically interested in searching the electronic, optical, and lattice properties of semiconducting low dimensional structures.

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Guolong Tan*

Nanomagnet

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Preface XI**

Magnetic Materials **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 37**

Heusler Compounds **63**

**Chapter 4 65**

**Chapter 5 89**

Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor **107**

**Chapter 6 109**

Magnetic Full-Heusler Compounds for Thermoelectric Applications

Zr-Based Heusler Compounds for Biomedical Spintronic Applications

Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor ZnO: Magnetic Ordering with

*by Kei Hayashi, Hezhang Li, Mao Eguchi, Yoshimi Nagashima* 

Structural, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties of

*by Poorva Sharma, Ashwini Kumar, Jingyou Tang* 

Electric Field-Induced Magnetization Reversal of Multiferroic

Perpendicular Magnetic Insulator Films for Spintronics

Mullite-Type Ceramic: Bi2Fe4O9

*by Jiahao Liu and Liang Fang*

*by Laith Alahmed and Peng Li*

*and Yuzuru Miyazaki*

*by Anca Birsan and Victor Kuncser*

Transition Metal and Rare Earth Ions

*by Kuldeep Chand Verma*
