Sustainable Perovskite Multiferroic Materials : A Plethora of Applications

This book comprehensively introduces sustainable nature of the perovskite multiferroic materials. It covers detailed information about single-phase and composite perovskite-based multiferroics, nanostructures of multiferroics and the structural aspect. It majorly focuses on the application part of the newly emerging non-toxic perovskite multiferroics, green synthesis techniques and energy harvesting applications. The applications mainly concerning with energy harvesting, spintronics, photovoltaic and photo-catalysis, sensors, gyrators, gradiometer, transducers and memory storage devices have been provided in detail.

In the recent past, the multiferroic materials are the center of attention with new breakthroughs in the above applications, including quantum computing, and comprises both scientists and young researchers as inspiration as well as critical ideas to develop new work in this area. As far as the lead-free multiferroic materials are concerned, the present book includes information on eco-friendly smart materials, as these are being majorly used as sensors and actuators in nano- or micro-electromechanical systems. The magnetoelectric coupling-based nano or micro-electromechanical devices are established to exhibit high-quality factor and can be combined with radio frequency integrated circuits. This book offers thorough exploration of green, non-toxic and viable commercial technology on multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. The simulations based on the multiferroic materials, quantum criticality and emergent ideas of quantum electromagnets are also the center of attention of this book. In conclusion, this book is the perfect need of the materials scientists and should receive a place in the libraries of solid-state physicists and chemists who are looking to understand multiferroics from basics to latest applications. All the researchers working in the area of energy harvesting, spintronics, photovoltaic and photo-catalysis, sensors, gyrators, gradiometer, transducers, memory storage devices and quantum computing will benefit from this book. 

Dr. Manish Kumar obtained his M.Tech. degree in Ceramic Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and Ph.D. degree in Physics from Institute of Science, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. At present, he is serving as Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, ARSD College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, since last more than 12 years. His research area focuses on environmental-friendly multifunctional materials for energy and memory devices, materials for green energy solutions, multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, composites, perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications, supercapacitors, white light emitting materials, solar simulation via different softwares, and DFT calculation. Recently, he was listed among top 2% scientists worldwide by Stanford University Ranking-2021 and published more than 125 research publications in international journals of high repute, 1 authored book on White Light Emitting Materials, 5 edited books (in press) in Springer Nature, 30 international book chapters, and 1 Indian Patent with h-index of 28, i10-index of 68 including more than 2550 citations as per Google Scholar. He has delivered the talks in a number of national and international conferences. He is also Member of various research committees of different universities. In addition, he has completed two research projects as Co-investigator funded by University of Delhi and one is under process as Principal Investigator. He is guiding number of Ph.D., M.Sc. and under graduate students as supervisor and/cosupervisor. Dr. Kumar is serving and/served as an editor in number of highly reputed journals such as Scientific Reports (Nature), Materials Today Communications (Elsevier), High Performance Polymers (SAGE), Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier) and Springer Nature Books. He has organized one national conference (RAFM-2020) as a co-convener and three international conferences (RAFM-2022, RAFM-2024 and APGC-2025) as a convener.