The group focuses on the study topics in superconductivity, magnetism, and materials science. The group manages the magnetic measurements laboratory equipped with the Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID magnetometer) and the Physical Properties Measuring System (PPMS). The materials of our interest are transition metal-based oxides, magnetoelectric materials, ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic oxides, High-Tc superconductors, MgB2, iron pnictides/selinades, lithium-based oxides, magnetic nanoparticles, and magnetic inorganic molecules.

Our research focuses on understanding high-temperature superconductivity, the mixed-valence problem, magneto-resistive materials, metal-insulator transitions, the charge-ordering phenomenon, electronic phase separation, charge/spin density waves, the propagation of electromagnetic waves in magnetized ferrites, and molecular magnetism. We investigate the above systems using global and local magnetic measurements, x-ray and neutron diffraction data, Mossbauer, NMR, and EPR spectroscopies.

In addition, significant research effort has been devoted to vortex dynamics and the vortex-matter phase diagram of type-II superconductors. The magnetic properties of the superconductors are studied using several experimental techniques, including local magnetization measurements and ac/dc-susceptibility measurements with microscopic Hall sensors and bulk probes, as well as SQUID bulk magnetic measurements.

I have also worked in the field of non-destructive evaluation (magnetism-based crack detection methods), and the magnetic characterization of industrial magnetic steels and pharmaceutical compounds containing magnetic phases.