The world's growing hunger for artificial cold, on the one hand, and the ever more stringent
climate targets, on the other, pose an enormous challenge to mankind. Novel, efficient, and …

The pyrochlore structure (A2B2O7) has been an object of consistent study by materials
scientists largely due to the stability of the cubic lattice with respect to a wide variety of …

Structural analysis of spin frustrated Ho 2 Ge x Ti 2− x O 7 (x= 0, 0.1, 0.15 & 0.25) pyrochlore
oxides has been performed using high resolution x-ray diffraction pattern and low …

[eng] The urgent need to reduce our footprint on the earth environment is leading to ever
more stringent commitments to decrease greenhouse gases emissions, which entails one of …

The thermodynamics in spin-ice systems are governed by emergent magnetic monopole
excitations and, until now, the creation of a pair of these topological defects was associated …

School of Materials Science and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi Page| xxvii PREFACE
After the discovery of implications of Anderson's resonating-valence-bond (RVB) theory to …