Dr. Hem Kandpal

Degrees Position helds Research fields Selected publications 

Degrees

• PhD in Solid State Chemistry, Institut fur Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Mainz, Germany. PhD Thesis titled: Computational Studies on the Structure and Stabilities of Magnetic Inter-metallic Compounds, 2007. Research advisor: Prof. Claudia Felser.

• M. Sc. in Physical Chemistry, University of Lucknow, India, December 1999.

Position helds

• From April 2009- present Visiting Scientist with Dr. Manuel Richter at the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Germany: Electronic band structure study of thin films and Graphene with vacancies.
• March 2007-March 2009 Post-Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Roser Valenti at the Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Ab initio modelling and design of correlated materials.
• January 2007-March 2007 Visited Chemistry & Chemical Biology New Brunswick, The State University of New Jersey Rutgers, Prof. Martha Greenblatt’s lab
• August 2000 - September 2002 Research Scholar, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012. Research advisor: Prof. Ram Seshadri

Research fields

• Electronic structure of magnetic compounds, semiconductors, superconductors, organic and inorganic compounds. Modelling of surfaces, thin films, defects and dopants.
• Experimental solid state synthesis and characterization (synthesis: arc melter, solid state ways for intermetallic and oxides; structural: powder XRD and magnetic measurements (SQUID) and photoemission measurements.)

Selected publications

Hem C. Kandpal, Ingo Opahle, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Harald O. Jeschke, and R. Valentı, Revision of model parameters for kappa-type charge transfer salts: an ab initio study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 0670041.

I. Opahle, Hem C. Kandpal, Y. Zhang, C. Gros, and R. Valentı, Effect of external pressure on the Fe magnetic moment in undoped LaFeAsO from density functional theory: Proximity to a magnetic instability, Phys. Rev. B 79 (2009) 024509.

Hem C. Kandpal, V. Ksenofontov, M. Wojcik, R. Seshadri, and C. Felser, Electronic structure, magnetism and disorder in the Heusler compound Co2TiSn, J. Phys. D 40 (2007) 1587.

Hem C. Kandpal, G. H. Fecher, and C. Felser, Calculated electronic and magnetic properties of the half-metallic, transition metal based Heusler compounds, J. Phys. D 40 (2007) 1507.

B. Balke, G. H. Fecher, Hem C. Kandpal, and C. Felser, Properties of the quaternary half-metal-type Heusler alloy Co2Mn1−xFexSi, Phys. Rev. B 74 (2006) 104405

Hem C. Kandpal, G. H. Fecher, C. Felser, and G. Schoenhense, Correlation in the transition metal based Heusler compounds Co2MnSi and Co2FeSi, Phys. Rev. B 73 (2006) 094422.

A. Gloskovskii, S. A. Nepijko, M. Cinchetti, G. Schoenhense, G. H. Fecher, Hem C. Kandpal, C. Felser, H. A. Therese, N. Zink, W. Tremel, and A. Oelsner, Time-of-flight photoelectron spectromicroscopy of single MoS2 nanotubes, J. Appl. Phys. 100 (2006) 084330.

G. H. Fecher, Hem C. Kandpal, S. Wurmehl, and C. Felser, Slater-Pauling Rule and Curie-Temperature of Co2-based Heusler compounds, J. Appl. Phys. 99 (2006) 08J106.

H. C. Kandpal and R. Seshadri, First-principles electronic structure of the delafossites ABO2 (A = Cu, Ag, Au; B = Al, Ga, Sc, In, Y): Evolution of d10d10 interactions, Solid State Sciences 4(2002) 1045..

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