Mahmud Khan

Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Miami University
Office: 104 Kreger (513-529-2557)
LAB: 129 Kreger (513-529-9311)

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Welcome

 I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Miami University Oxford, OH. I received my Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. My BSc and MS were from the same university.

Research Interest

 My research is centered on novel magnetic materials (broadly defined) that exhibit multifunctional properties. I am interested in the synthesis of these materials mainly by arc melting and high temperature annealing and sintering techniques. The properties of the materials are explored by several characterization techniques including x-ray diffraction, magnetization, magneto-transport and several other techniques. The properties that I am particularly interested in include, but not limited to, the following:

Coupled and decoupled Magnetic and structural transitions
Magnetocaloric effects
Magnetoresistance
Exchange bias effects
Permanent magnetic materials

To findout more details about my research, click on the Research button at the top of this page.

Opportunities for Students

 Students at both Undergraduate and Masters level are always welcome to participate in the research in my lab. In my research group the students will be provided with an opportunity of gaining extensinve experimental research experience in magnetism. From sample preperation to characterization, students will learn different experimental techniques. If you are interested, send me an email or stop by my office sometime to discuss possible research oppportunites.

Selected Publications
  1. "Anomalous transport properties of Ni2Mn1-xCrxGa Heusler alloys at the martensite-austenite phase transition" Mahmud Khan, Jeffrey Brock, and Ian Sugerman, Phys. Rev. B, 93, 054419 (2016).


  2. "Cerium: An Unlikely Replacement of Dysprosium in High Performance Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets" Arjun K. Pathak, Mahmud Khan, Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., Ralph W. McCallum,Lin Zhou, Kewei Sun, Kevin W. Dennis, Chen Zhou, Frederick E. Pinkerton, Matthew J. Kramer and Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Adv. Mater., 27, 2663 (2015).


  3. "Asymmetric switchinglike behavior in the magnetoresistance at low fields in bulk metamagnetic Heusler alloys" Tapas Samanta, Ahmad Us Saleheen, Daniel L. Lepkowski, Alok Shankar, Igor Dubenko, Abdiel Quetz, Mahmud Khan, Naushad Ali, and Shane Stadler, Phys. Rev. B, 90, 064412 (2014).


  4. "Influence of A-site doping and strain on the relationship between the anisotropic magneto-resistance and charge localization in films of La0.7-xPrxCa0.3MnO3 manganites" H. S. Alagoz, M. Khan, M. M. Saber, S. T. Mahmud, K. H. Chow, and J. Jung, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 242406 (2013).


  5. "Enhancement of Ferromagnetism by Cr doping in Ni-Mn-Cr-Sb Heusler alloys" Mahmud Khan, Igor Dubenko, Shane Stadler, J. Jung, S. S. Stoyko, Arthur Mar, Abdiel Quetz, Tapas Samanta, Naushad Ali, and K. H. Chow, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 112402 (2013).

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