Devendra Kumar
We report experimental and theoretical investigations on the quaternary Heusler alloy CoRuTiGe, synthesized using the arc melting technique. Crystal structure analysis reveals a tetragonal structure at room temperature. Magnetization…
Large spin-orbit coupling, kagome lattice, nontrivial topological band structure with inverted bands anti-crossings, and Weyl nodes are essential ingredients, ideally required to obtain maximal anomalous Hall effect (AHE) are simultaneously…
Defects play an important role in determining the type of carriers as well as on tuning the physical properties of layered materials. In this study, we have demonstrated that by varying the growth kinetics one can control the defects and…
We report a comprehensive magneto-transport study on single crystalline p-type topological crystalline insulator (TCI) SnTe, across the cubic-to-rhombohedral (R3m) transition which occurs as a function of temperature. The electrical…
In this letter we report the observation of extremely large non-saturating linear magnetoresistance (MR) in Antimony(Sb) crystal. An extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) of 43000% at 2K and large unsaturating MR$\sim\ $70% at room…
A comprehensive magnetotransport study including resistivity ($\rho_{xx}$) at various fields, isothermal magnetoresistance and Hall resistivity ($\rho_{xy}$) has been carried out at different temperatures on the Co$_{2}$TiAl Heusler alloy.…
The bulk of topological insulators is relatively unexplored due to excess contribution of conduction from native defects. Here we investigate the bulk conduction in a Bi2Te3 crystal having reduced defect induced conduction. Our results…
In the present work, we have reported the temperature dependent thermopower ($\alpha$) behavior of La$_{0.75}$Ba$_{0.25}$CoO$_{3}$ compound in the temperature range 300-600 K. Using the Heikes formula, the estimated value of $\alpha$…
Normally, understanding the temperature dependent transport properties of strongly correlated electron systems remains challenging task due to complex electronic structure and its variations (around E$_{F}$) with temperature. Here, we…
The chalcogenide Bi$_2$Se$_3$ can attain the three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal state under the influence of strain and microstrain. Here we report the presnece of large linear magnetoresistance in such a Bi$_2$Se$_3$ crystal. The…
We report the observation of quantum Hall effect (QHE) in a Bi$_2$Se$_3$ single crystal having carrier concentration ($n$) $\sim1.13\times10^{19}$cm$^{-3}$, three dimensional Fermi surface and bulk transport characteristics. The plateaus in…
We report the magnetization study of the compound La$_{0.75}$Ba$_{0.25}$CoO$_3$ where Ba$^{2+}$ doping is just above the critical limit for percolation of ferromagnetic clusters. The field cooled (FC) and zero field cooled (ZFC)…
We report detailed dc magnetization, linear and non-linear ac susceptibility measurements on the hole doped disordered cobaltite La$_{0.5}$Ba$_{0.5}$CoO$_3$. Our results show that the magnetically ordered state of the system consists of…
The three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are predicted to exhibit a 3D Dirac semimetal state in critical regime of topological to trivial phase transition. Here we demonstrate the first experimental evidence of 3D Dirac semimetal…
We report detailed magnetization measurements on the perovskite oxide NdNiO$_3$. This system has a first order metal-insulator (M-I) transition at about 200 K which is associated with charge ordering. There is also a concurrent paramagnetic…
We report the effect of field, temperature and thermal history on the time dependence in resistivity and magnetization in the phase separated state of Al doped Pr$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$. The rate of time dependence in resistivity is much…
We have investigated the temperature driven first order metal-insulator (M-I) transition in thin films of NdNiO$_3$ and have compared it with the bulk behavior. The M-I transition of thin films is sensitive to epitaxial strain and a partial…
First-order phase transition in a highly correlated electron system can manifest as a dynamic phenomenon. The presence of multiple domains of the coexisting phases average out the dynamical effects making it nearly impossible to predict the…
We report detailed dc magnetization, linear and non-linear ac susceptibility measurements on the hole doped disordered cobaltite La$_{0.5}$Ba$_{0.5}$CoO$_3$. Our results show that the magnetically ordered state of the system consists of…
We report the time dependent response of electrical resistivity in the non-magnetic perovskite oxide NdNiO$_3$ in its phase separated state and provide a physical explanation of the observations. We also model the system and do an accurate…