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Zakir Hossain
PhD (TIFR Mumbai)
Professor, Department of Physics
SL-306,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Education
PhD (Physics), T.I.F.R., Mumbai 1997 Post M.Sc Associate in PhysicsS. I.N.P., Calcutta 1990
M.Sc. (Physics), University Of Calcutta, 1988
B.Sc. (Hons. in Physics), University of Burdwan, 1986
Selected Publications
Synthesis and Investigation of Yb-based Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Funding Agency: BRNS, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Mumbai Amount: Rs. 28 lacs Duration: 2007-2010 (completed) PI: Zakir Hossain, Co-PI: K.P. Rajeev, PC: S. Ramakrishnan (TIFR) Oxide based functional thin film nanostructures for spintronics and quantum informatics
Funding Agency: Department of Informtion Technology Sanctioned amount: Rs. 2.2 Crore Duration: 2007-2011 Chief Investigator: Zakir Hossain PI: R.C. Budhani, Co-PIs: Ashish Garg and Zakir Hossain
Papers: Bulk superconductivity at an elevated temperature (Tc = 12 K) in a nickel containing alloy system Y-Ni-B-C, R. Nagarajan, C. Mazumdar, Z. Hossain, S.K. Dhar, K.V. Gopalakrishnan, L.C. Gupta, C. Godart, B.D. Padalia, R. Vijayaraghavan, Physical Review Letters, 72 (1994) 274.
Papers: Yb-based heavy-fermion metal situated close to a quantum critical point, Z. Hossain, C. Geibel, F. Weickert, T. Radu, Y. Tokiwa, H. Jeevan, P. Gegenwart, F. Steglich, Physical Review B vol. 72, 1 Sept. 2005, p 94411.
Papers: Heavy Fermion behaviour in PrRh2B2C: An excitonic mass enhancement, V. K. Anand, Z. Hossain, G. Chen, M. Nicklas, C. Geibel Physical Review B Volume: 79 Issue: Article Number: 113107 (2009)
Papers: Reentrant Superconductivity in Eu(Fe1-xIrx)2As2, U.B. Paramanik, Debarchan Das, R. Prasad and Z. Hossain J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 25 (2013) 265701.
Awards & Fellowships
National Scholarship by Government of India during 1986- 1988.
JSPS fellowship, Japan to work with Prof. T. Takabatake.
Postdoctoral fellowship from Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden to work with Dr. C. Geibel and Prof. F. Steglich.