Varaprasad B

Graduate Student (D1)
Materials Science and Engineering,
Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba

email: B.Varaprasad@nims.go.jp
Phone: +81-29-859-2793: Fax: +81-29-859-2701

EDUCATION

2007 Onwards: Ph.D, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2005 M.Tech. Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, IITB, Bombay .
2001 M.S. Physics, Department of Physics,Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

RESEARCH INTEREST

Half-metallic Heusler alloys
Magnetic tunneling junctions

Ph.D Thesis

Search for half-metallic Heusler alloys

Publications

Highly spin polarized Co₂MnGa_0.5Sn_0.5 Heusler compound
B. Varaprasad, A. Rajanikanth, Y. K. Takahashi and K. Hono, Acta Mater. 57, 2702-2709 (2009)..

Enhanced spin polarization of Co2MnGe Heusler alloy by substitution of Ga for Ge
B. S. D. Ch. S. Varaprasad, A. Rajanikanth, Y. K. Takahashi and K. Hono, Appl. Phys. Express. submitted.