Menka Jain
Menka Jain
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico (2004)
Institute of Materials Science
25 King Hill Road, Storrs, CT 06269
Office: 1008
Storrs, CT 06269-3046
Phone: (860) 486 4090
Email: menka.jain@uconn.edu Web: https://physics.uconn.edu/person/menka-jain/
Research Interests
Dr. Jain’s current research interests are in the science and engineering of various interesting functional metal-oxide materials (such as dielectric, ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, multiferroic, magnetoelectric, thermoelectric). Applications of these materials in a variety of devices require good understanding of the material and fine tuning of their specific properties required for a particular application. Generally, processing conditions, strain, composition, dopants, structure, microstructure, etc. affect the physical properties of these materials. Artificially engineered multilayered, nanocomposite, and heterostructured films of such materials are of great interest due to their novel properties. Other studies include the role of defects, grain boundaries, dopants, artificial multilayers, etc. on the electronic, magnetic and magnetotransport properties of the manganites, double perovskites, and cobaltites.
Awards & Honors
| 2006 & 2008 | Recipient of Award of Excellence from the group leader of the Superconductivity Technology Center of MPA Division in Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 2005 | Received Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 2003-2004 | Recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-EPSCoR graduate fellowship |
| 2001-2003 | Recipient of NSF Fellowship |
| 2002 | Awarded second prize, “The Ceramograhic competition of The American Ceramic Society”, at the annual meeting of ACerS, St. Louis |
| 2001 | Honor student award for being among the top five percent of graduate students of the University of Puerto Rico |
| 2001 | First prize winner of the poster presentation competition at the NASA/DoD sponsored Ferroelectric Workshop, Puerto Rico |
| 1997 | Recipient of the “Smt. Shyam Lata Nigam Memorial Scholarship award” for securing the highest marks in all the colleges in master degree, Christ Church College, Kanpur, India |
Recent Publications
Magnetic and magneto-caloric properties of HoCrO3 tuned by selective rare-earth doping, S. Yin, M.S. Seehra, C.J. Guild, S.L. Suib, N. Poudel, B. Lorenz, and M. Jain, Physical Review B, 95, 184421 (2017).
Particle size dependence of the magnetic and magneto-caloric properties of HoCrO3, S. Yin, T. Sauyet, M. S. Seehra, and M. Jain, J. Applied Physics, 121, 063902 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4975405
Switchable 3-0 Magnetoelectric Nanocomposite Thin Film with High Coupling, A. McDannald, L. Ye, C. Cantoni, G. Sreenivasulu, B. D. Huey, and M. Jain, Nanoscale, 9 (2017) 3246.
Magnetic properties of pure and Fe doped HoCrO3 thin films fabricated via a solution route, S. Yin, T. Sauyet, C. Guild, S. L. Suib, and M. Jain, J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 428 (2017) 313. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2016.12.021
An efficient organic solvent-free solution-processing strategy for high-mobility metal chalcogenide film growth, J. Zhao, I. Jeon, Q. Yi, M. Jain, M. H. Rummeli, P. Song, Y. Matsuo, and G. Zou, Green Chemistry, 19 (2017) 946. DOI: 10.1039/c6gc02489k
Modulated magneto-thermal response of La0.85Sr0.15MnO3 and (Ni0.6Cu0.2Zn0.2)Fe2O4 composites for thermal energy harvesters, H. C. Song, D. Maurya, J. Chun, Y. Zhou, M.E. Song, D. Gray, N. K. Yamoah, D. Kumar, A. McDannald, M. Jain, and S. Priya, Energy Harvesting and Systems, 4 (2017) 57. https://doi.org/10.1515/ehs-2016-0016
Enhancement in magnetocaloric properties of holmium chromite by gadolinium substitution, S. Yin and M. Jain, Journal of Applied Physics, 120 (2016) 043906.
Relationship between the ferromagnetic phase and the magnetoelectric coupling in hot pressed Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 based particulate composites, F. L. Zabotto, R. R. G. Paranhos, M. Jain, A. J. Gualdi, A. J. A. Oliveira, J. A. Eiras, and D.Garcia, Integrated Ferroelectrics, 174 (2016) 121.