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Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Physics

Type of Appointment: Regular

Email Address: vaishalidessai@carmelcollegegoa.org

Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. Physics (Goa University), Ph.D. Physics (Goa University)

Years of Teaching Experience: 06 years

Subjects Taught: Physics

Areas of Interest: Material physics, X-rays

Research Papers Published (Paper title, Publication Name and other details, year, abstract)

  1. Role of Tin and Carbon in the magnetic interactions in Mn3SnC, Gaonkar, V. N., Dias, E. T., Dey, A. B., Giri, R. P., Nigam, A. K., & Priolkar, K. R., Magn. Magn. Mater., 471, 215-219 (2019).
  2. Modulations in magnetostructural coupling in C and Sn deficient Mn3SnC, V. N. Gaonkar, E. T. Dias, A. Das, A. K. Nigam, K. R. Priolkar, J. Magn. Mater., 488 (2019) 165357.
  3. d-band filling and magnetic phase separation in transition metal-doped Mn3SnC, Gaonkar V. N., Dias E. T., Nigam A. K. and Priolkar K. R., Alloys and Compounds, 829 (2020) 154548.
  4. Packing fraction induced phase separation in A-site doped antiperovskites, Gaonkar V. N., Dias E. T., Vedpathak M. N. and Priolkar K. R., Materials Today Communications 33(2022) 104459.

Conference Presentation:

  1. Effect of Carbon Content on Transformation Temperature in Mn3SnC Antiperovskites N. Gaonkar, K. R. Priolkar and A. K. Nigam, 62ndDAE Solid State Physics symposium organized by BARC, Mumbai 400085, December 26-30, (2017).
  2. Role of Sn and C in magnetostructural coupling in Mn3SnC V. N. Gaonkar, E. T. Dias and K. R. Priolkar, NCES organized by SRM-IST, Kattankulathur, Chennai 603203, December 17-19, (2018).
  3. Effect of C and Sn deficiency on magnetic and structural interaction in Mn3SnC antiperovskites N. Gaonkar and K. R. Priolkar, Two-day workshop on Material Science between University of Porto, University of Coimbra and Goa University, Goa 403206.  (2019).
  4. Effect of transition metal doping in Mn3SnC antiperovskites V. N. Gaonkar and K. R. Priolkar, National Symposium on Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science organized by GU- Department of Physics in collaboration with IIT-Goa, Goa 403206. March 12 and 13, (2020).

Awards and Honours

  1. Ph.D Thesis, Titled: ‘Understanding magnetocaloric properties of Mn based Antiperovskite materials’, selected for best the Best Thesis Award at 65th DAE-Solid State Physics Symposium 2021, held at, DAE Convention Centre, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai- 400085.

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