ESR 6 Adithya Rajan

Research background and current project:

  1. High temperature superconductivity – magnetoresistance and magnetometry measurements
  2. Permalloy characterization using kerr microscopy
  3. AFM growth and characterization
  4. Neel order in AFMs, and its effect due to electric field. 

For my bachelor thesis, I worked on Superconducting order, and various means of enhancing the order, which led me into operating a crysostat. Thereafter, I spent some time in magnetic property and growth characterization, both in Mainz for my masters and in Tohoku university Japan, where I was for a short project. My magnEFi project involves a different type of material ordering, the AFM ordering or the Neel order. It involves the effect of electrical field on the Neel order, potentially finding a means to control the Neel order. For this, techniques ranging from imaging (both laboratory and synchrotron based) to transport measurements will be employed. 

Country of origin: India

Host institution:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz,
Saarstraße 21, 55121 Mainz
Germany (JGU)