Acknowledgements
It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to thank all the people who contributed
one way or another to our book.
First and foremost, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof. Arghya
Taraphder, Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, India, for guidance,
support, sharing his knowledge and ideas in our every academic endeavours. This
has indeed motivated us to carry out this book project. A special thank goes to
Prof. Kushalendu Goswami, former professor of Department of Physics, Jadavpur
University for his constant motivation and support till the completion of the book. We
are grateful to Dr. S. M. Yusuf, Head, Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre, Mumbai, India for always being available to scientific discussions.
His motivating words and patronization have played a crucial role to venture into this
book project. Great support and precious advice from Dr. Alok Banerjee, UGC-DAE
CSR Indore is gratefully acknowledged.
One of the authors, Dr. Puja Dey would like to express her heart-felt gratitude to
Prof. (Dr.) Wolfgang Weber, Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Strasbourg,
France for introducing Dr. Dey into the fascinating field of spintronics during her
post-doctoral research at IPCMS, CNRS, Strasbourg, France.
We are whole-heartedly thankful to our Ph.D. research scholars: Mr. Apurba Pal
of Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, Mr. Debojit Deb and Ms. Debarati Nath of
National Institute of Technology Agartala, Mr. Nitish Ghosh of Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, who helped a lot in drawing figures, and thereby have contributed
indirectly to this book. Their devotions and co-operations are also appreciatively
acknowledged. We would also like to thank our M.Sc. project students, Mr. Ratan
Das and Mr. Uttam Kumar Das, for their help.
We record our indebtedness to the authors of those original works from where a
large number of information are liberally drawn while preparing the present book.
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It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to thank all the people who contributed
one way or another to our book.
First and foremost, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof. Arghya
Taraphder, Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, India, for guidance,
support, sharing his knowledge and ideas in our every academic endeavours. This
has indeed motivated us to carry out this book project. A special thank goes to
Prof. Kushalendu Goswami, former professor of Department of Physics, Jadavpur
University for his constant motivation and support till the completion of the book. We
are grateful to Dr. S. M. Yusuf, Head, Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre, Mumbai, India for always being available to scientific discussions.
His motivating words and patronization have played a crucial role to venture into this
book project. Great support and precious advice from Dr. Alok Banerjee, UGC-DAE
CSR Indore is gratefully acknowledged.
One of the authors, Dr. Puja Dey would like to express her heart-felt gratitude to
Prof. (Dr.) Wolfgang Weber, Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Strasbourg,
France for introducing Dr. Dey into the fascinating field of spintronics during her
post-doctoral research at IPCMS, CNRS, Strasbourg, France.
We are whole-heartedly thankful to our Ph.D. research scholars: Mr. Apurba Pal
of Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, Mr. Debojit Deb and Ms. Debarati Nath of
National Institute of Technology Agartala, Mr. Nitish Ghosh of Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, who helped a lot in drawing figures, and thereby have contributed
indirectly to this book. Their devotions and co-operations are also appreciatively
acknowledged. We would also like to thank our M.Sc. project students, Mr. Ratan
Das and Mr. Uttam Kumar Das, for their help.
We record our indebtedness to the authors of those original works from where a
large number of information are liberally drawn while preparing the present book.
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